Patent ID: 8925861
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A locking element for securing containers or pallets in a cargo bay of an aircraft, wherein the containers or pallets comprise engagement recesses with opposing stop edges in which locking lugs engage in a locked position and configured to be moved back into a rest position, wherein each locking element is allocated a pair of locking lugs which in the locked position can each be brought with a stop surface into engagement on a stop edge of the engagement recess, wherein the locking lugs are mounted mobile such that the two stop surfaces separate from the stop edges on movement from the locked position into the rest position, the locking lugs of a pair are connected together in opposing directions via a connecting pin in a slide recess formed in one of the lugs such that movement of one locking lug carries the other locking lug with it, wherein the locking element comprises two permanently fixed rotating axes wherein each of said locking lugs of said pair rotates around one of said permanently fixed rotating axes, respectively, when being moved from the locked position into the rest position.