Patent ID: 7186065

Claim:
A motor vehicle and general cargo load support system mountable in a transportation container serving both transportation and storage purposes, said system comprising: at least one frame adapted to receive thereon a first motor vehicle; a first pair of spaced apart flexible frame support linkages mounted at a forward portion of said frame and extending to spaced apart first attachment points in a first upper portion of said transportation container; means serving to pivotally connect said frame support linkages at their lower ends to said frame and at their upper ends to said container first attachment points, said means at the lower ends of said flexible linkage being readily dismountable from the frame in a first selected loading condition of the transportation container so as to accommodate general cargo loads; a second pair of spaced apart frame support linkages coupled to a rearward portion of said frame and extending to spaced apart second attachment points in a second upper portion of said transportation container; raising and lowering means coupled to each said first and second frame support linkages and the upper portion of said transportation container serving to permit raising and lowering said rearward portion of said frame independently of said forward portion of said frame so that the frame together with the motor vehicle supported thereon may be shifted from a downwardly inclined condition for vehicle loading and unloading to an upwardly inclined condition for transport and storage and affording space there beneath the frame and vehicle in the container for a second motor vehicle and general cargo in a second selected loading condition; and means acting with said raising and lowering means and said first frame linkage serving to permit said first frame support linkage to shorten in said first selected loading condition, to raise the front portion of the frame to the container upper portion and to raise the rearward portion of the frame to said upper portion flexibly affording unobstructed space in the container for the general cargo.