Patent ID: 7044698
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
1. A method of restraining a road vehicle on a vehicle support surface of a transport vehicle comprising the steps of: i) securing four primary wheel restraining devices, having an arresting surface, to said support surface with said arresting surface thereof being positioned adjacent a thread face of a tire of front and rear pairs of wheels of said road vehicle and on outward sides of said pairs of wheels thereby establishing a transport location of said road vehicle on said vehicle support surface between said four primary wheel restraining devices, ii) securing a catcher tire abutment device, having an arresting surface thereof spaced an approximate predetermined distance adjacent said thread face on inward sides of each tire of said front and rear pair of wheels, iii) restraining said road vehicle in said transport location when said road vehicle is subjected to an impact force from either a front or a rear direction by absorbing kinetic energy from said impacted vehicle sequentially by (a) contact of said tires of one of said front and rear pairs of wheels against said arresting surface of one of said primary wheel restraining devices and (b) by said tires of the other pair of wheels contacting said arresting surface of one of said catcher tire abutment devices, and