Patent ID: 7802708

Claim:
A material carrier for mounting on a vehicle having an exterior and an interior approximately vertical side panels, the material carrier capable of supporting goods during transport, the material carrier comprising: a fixed frame and a movable frame oriented in near vertical and mutually approximately parallel adjacent alignment; a drive bar fixed to the movable frame, and slidingly extensive through a strut mount tube of the fixed frame, and terminating within a compression tube positioned below the vehicle; a rigid compression leg fixed to the compression tube and positioned at an angle relative to the drive bar and the compression tube for contacting the internal side panel of the vehicle; a compression drive engaged between the fixed frame and the compression tube, the compression drive enabling the compression tube to move toward the fixed frame for pressing the compression leg against the interior side panel of the vehicle thereby enabling the fixed frame for moving toward the exterior side panel; and a frame drive positioned within the drive bar and enabled for moving the drive bar to change spacing between the fixed and movable frames while maintaining parallel positions therebetween.