Patent ID: 9079665
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B60P,B64D

Abstract:
1. Cargo handling apparatus for restraining at least a first and a second pallet aboard an aircraft, each of said first and second pallets having a side edge with a plurality of recesses formed therein, said first and second pallets being positioned on said cargo handling apparatus with the side edges thereof in a substantially co-linear orientation, said cargo handling apparatus comprising: a load restraining rail assembly, said load restraining rail assembly comprising a shaft assembly mounted for rotation about a rotational axis extending substantially parallel to the side edges of said first and second pallets; a plurality of lock pawls attached to said shaft assembly, said shaft assembly being rotatable from a first position in which said plurality of lock pawls are disengaged from said first and second pallets, to a second position in which a first one of said plurality of lock pawls engages one of said plurality of recesses formed in the side edge said first pallet, to a third position in which said first one of said plurality of lock pawls remains engaged with said one of said plurality of recess formed in the side edge said first pallet and a second one of said plurality of lock pawls engages one of said plurality of recesses formed in the side edge of said second pallet.