Patent ID: 6022181
Filing Date: 2000-02-08
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
A Passenger Bus Cargo Handling System comprising: a support rail, a moveable tray, axle spindles, load carrying wheels, and a retaining latch where the load carrying wheels are rotatably attached to the axle spindles which are fixedly attached to the moveable tray, and where the retaining latch is moveably attached to the moveable tray and where the load carrying wheels are matingly received within confines of the support rail and therefore allow bi-directional traversing operation of the moveable tray and where the retaining latch, when moved, is therefore engaged or disengaged and is thereby used to selectively retain the moveable tray in selected positions of extension or retraction and wherein the support rail is further defined as an elongated tubular slotted channel having a plurality of upper flange apertures, a detachable rail section, detachable rail section apertures, a vertical support wall, a top roller flange, a bottom roller flange, a downwardly extending retainer flange, and an upwardly extending retainer flange where the detachable rail section can be removably attached to the elongated tubular slotted channel by use of the detachable rail section apertures and a fastening means and where the top roller flange, and the bottom roller flange, are continuous integral orthogonal extensions of the vertical support wall, and where the downwardly extending retainer flange is a continuous integral orthogonal extension of the top roller flange and the upwardly extending retainer flange is a continuous integral orthogonal extension of the bottom roller flange and where the plurality of upper flange apertures accommodate an attachment means for fixedly attaching the passenger bus cargo handling system to structural walls of a passenger bus cargo compartment.