Patent ID: 7513725

Claim:
A wheel chock assembly comprising, a pair of first and second chocks for a tire, the first chock an active chock and the second chock an anchor chock, each chock having a monolithic body, the body of one of said chocks a mirror-image of the other chock; each chock adapted to be locked to a chock-rail on a deck of a transporter; the first chock having a stepped-box body and a torque tube rotatably disposed therein for rotation about a transverse axis relative to the chock-rail; the second chock having a stepped-box body and an elongated anchoring element disposed therein along a transverse axis relative to the chock-rail; the stepped-box body of each chock mounted within both a safe zone and a deck zone; a wheel harness adapted to be deployed around the tire's upper surface, the wheel harness having a strap including plural tire blocks secured thereto, the tire blocks adapted to engage a tread of the tire; the torque tube adapted to have a first terminal end of the strap inserted into and wound on a torque tube surface so as to have at least one layer of strap wrapped therearound to provide a wrap surface; a second terminal end of the strap having a hook means secured thereto, the elongated anchoring element adapted to have the hook means hooked therearound; whereby a strap lower portion in the active chock, commencing at a tangent at a point at which the strap leaves the tire's tread, to a point defined by a tangent at the wrap surface nearest the tire, is always in the safe zone; and, a strap lower portion in the anchor chock, commencing at a tangent at a point at which the strap leaves the tire's tread, to a point defined by a tangent at a surface of the elongated anchoring element where the hook means contacts the surface, is always in the safe zone.