Patent ID: 7090105
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: B60P,B60R

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for carrying a workpiece adjacent an exterior surface of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a pair of vertical rest bars mounted on an exterior surface of the vehicle for resting the workpiece against; a pair of horizontal pivot bars, each engaging a vertical clamping bar, each of the pivot bars further pivotally engaged with one of the vertical rest bars; a means for driving engaged with a horizontal rest bar and at least one pivot bar thereby enabling a scissors-type horizontal motion therebetween, whereby the vertical clamping bars are drawn toward or away from the vertical rest bars while maintaining mutually parallel juxtapositions between the clamping bars and the vertical rest bars so as to clamp the workpiece therebetween and to release the work piece, whereby the workpiece may be safely transported by the vehicle.