Patent ID: 8733604
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicular roof-top load carrier for canoes and kayaks comprising: a substantially rigid space-frame member having at least a U-shaped portion and at least two legs extending from said U-shaped portion, each leg mountable crosswise to at least two vehicular cross bars and extending along a longitudinal direction of said vehicle with said U-shaped portion extending in a rearward direction of said vehicle and having a canoe or kayak engaging portion; guide members mounted to said vehicular cross bars with said legs passing therethrough, each slidably receiving one of said legs of said space-frame member, said guide members being actuable between a locked configuration where said guide members pinch the respective leg received therein, thereby preventing movement of said legs, and a slide permitting configuration where the guide member is expanded away from said respective leg received therein, thereby permitting translational movement of said legs in a rearward or frontward direction relative the vehicle, wherein in said slide permitting configuration said legs are translatably movable along said longitudinal direction within said guide members between a first contracted position and a second expanded position, and wherein in said second expanded position said canoe or kayak engaging portion of said U-shaped portion is extended further away from one or more of said guide members than when in said contracted position to engage a canoe or kayak thereon without incidentally contacting the vehicle, and wherein said canoe or kayak engaging portion of said U-shaped portion is closer to one or more of said guide members in said contracted position than in said expanded position; and a lever communicating with said guide members enabling actuation between said locked configuration and said slide permitting configuration.