Patent ID: 7413390

Claim:
A cargo anchoring system for assisting a user to anchor cargo inside an existing vehicle or anchor safety chains to the existing vehicle, said anchoring system comprising: a plurality of portable anchor rings provided with a centrally registered opening formed therein, each of said rings having a tongue monolithically formed with an outer perimeter of said ring and extending outwardly therefrom, each of said tongues having planar top and bottom surfaces respectively oriented perpendicular to a centrally registered axis of a corresponding one of said ring openings, each of said tongues being provided with an aperture formed therein; a plurality of portable curvilinear bars, each of said bars having a groove formed in an outer surface thereof and further being sized such that said bars removably penetrate through corresponding ones of said apertures of said tongues respectively; a plurality of portable cotter pins, said cotter pins being sized to removably and directly engage and maintain continuous contact within corresponding ones of said grooves of said bars, said cotter pins preventing said bars from undesirably and prematurely separating from said tongues of said rings during operating conditions; and a plurality of portable rectilinear rails removably connected to said rings, said rails being directly attached to the existing vehicle.