Patent ID: 8474754

Claim:
A cargo hold floor for a cargo hold of an aircraft comprising: panels for the attachment of functional elements, floor beams being joined to the panels to form pre-fabricated floor modules, the floor modules being installable in the aircraft, load-bearing elements being separately joinable to the body of the aircraft by means of lower joining devices prior to the installation of the floor modules, said load-bearing elements comprising a plurality of elongate posts, each said post extending lengthwise and having a length between a lower end and an upper end of said post, said plurality of posts including posts having different lengths, each said post extending vertically from a lower joining device into the aircraft interior when said lower end of said post is joined to the body of the aircraft such that said upper ends of said posts are generally linearly aligned with one another, upper joining devices for joining said upper ends of said posts to the floor beams of said floor modules after joining the lower ends of said posts to the body of the aircraft, whereby a plurality of said posts extend lengthwise vertically between the body of the aircraft and a floor beam of a floor module with said posts being spaced apart from one another along said floor beam.