Patent ID: 8337127
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: B60P,B64D

Abstract:
1. A cargo restraint of the type mountable on a bracket and the cargo restraint and bracket movable along a track having a preselected design, the restraint comprising, in combination: a control member pivotally movable between a locked position, an engaged position and a disengaged position, said engaged position for the condition of said control member between said locked position thereof and said disengaged position thereof, and said control member having a handle portion and said handle portion having a first end, and said first end of said handle portion having walls defining a tab accepting aperture extending therethrough, said control member having a forked portion spaced from said first end and said forked portion having a pair of substantially identical spaced apart handle arms and each of said spaced apart handle arms having: an axle member positioned in said axle aperture of said handle arms and said axle member having a body portion intermediate pair of handle walls and outer portions extending to regions external said outer surfaces of said handle walls, and said body portion having walls defining a threaded aperture extending therethrough, and said control member pivotally movable on said axle member between said locked position, said engaged position and said disengaged position; a tension stud having a base portion and a threaded connection portion extending from the base portion and said threaded portion threadingly engaging said threaded aperture in said axle member, and said base portion of said tension stud in clamping engagement with the track for the condition of said control member in said locked position thereof and said base portion of said tension stud free of clamping engagement with the track for said control member in said engaged position thereof and said disengaged position thereof; a hat shaped bottom washer having a washer portion and a tube portion mounted on said tension stud, and said washer portion of said bottom washer bearing against the bracket; a top washer mounted on said tension stud in bearing engagement with said cam surfaces of said handle arms; a spring member mounted on said tube portion of said bottom washer between said top washer and said washer portion of said bottom washer for resisting movement of said top washer toward said bottom washer; a lift arm having a first end wall and a pair of spaced apart side walls extending from said first end wall to a second end, and said first end wall and said spaced apart side walls having a top surface and a bottom surface, a tab portion extending from said top surface of said first end wall for projection through said tab accepting aperture of said handle portion of said control member for said control member in said locked position thereof, and said spaced apart side walls having: a plunger spaced a first predetermined distance from said tension stud and operatively connected to said lift arm in regions adjacent said first end of said lift arm, and said plunger having a plunger stem and a plunger head, and said plunger moving in reciprocating directions and having a retracted position for said control member in said disengaged position and a projecting position for said control member in said engaged position and said locked position, said plunger stem having walls defining a pin accepting aperture therethrough; a resilient member mounted on said plunger stem at said plunger head and bearing against the bracket for urging said plunger into said projected position and resisting movement of said plunger into said retracted position a pin member extending through said lift slots in said lift arm and through said pin accepting aperture in plunger stem for moving said plunger in said reciprocating directions for movement of said control member between said locked position and said disengaged position, and said plunger head projecting into an aperture in the track for said control member in said locked position thereof and said engaged position thereof.