Patent ID: 6895867

Claim:
In a decking system for supporting cargo, said decking system including a deck supported on a beam attached at its opposite ends to a pair of opposing tracks having elongated slots formed therein, a device for removably retaining said beam to said tracks comprising: an end foot located at each of the opposite ends of said beam, said end feet each being in the form of a flat plate having top and bottom surfaces, a notch being formed in the bottom surface thereof, said top surface being substantially flat; a keeper pivotally supported on each of said end feet, each of said keepers having an extension piece extending laterally away from the main body thereof, said extension pieces each having a flat lower surface which abuts against the top surface of the associated one of said end feet; and means for resiliently urging each of said keepers to bring each of said top extension pieces into flat abutment against the top surface of the associated end foot; the top surface of each of said keepers abutting against the top edge of the associated slot and the notch of each of said end feet abutting against the bottom edge of the associated slot, thereby retaining the end feet in said slots.