Patent ID: 6450379
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
Apparatus for carrying a load externally of a vehicle having a body and a chassis including front and rear pairs of laterally disposed wheels, the apparatus comprising a longitudinally spaced plurality of unconnected carrier units, each of the carrier units comprising:(a) a socket member; (b) means for mounting the socket member transversely to the chassis, an outside extremity of the socket member projecting to proximate alignment with a side extremity of the body; (c) a sleeve member telescopically receivable in the socket member; (d) a post member; (e) means for holding the post member upwardly projecting from the sleeve member when the sleeve member is in the socket member; (f) means for securing the post member selectively in plural fixed axial locations relative to the socket member for supporting the load above the sleeve member, wherein at least some of the post members are locatable for laterally restraining opposite sides of the load, and the post member of at least one of the carrier units is selectively locatable in fixed axial locations relative to the sleeve member of the at least one carrier unit.