Apparatus for guiding a load, especially on the loading floor of an aircraft

US5346161A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wilfried Eilenstein-Wiegmann · Stuhr, DE
• Guenter Vogg · Bremen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 13, 1994
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D9/003
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Loads, such as pallets or freight containers, are guided and restrained on the loading floor of an aircraft by a device which provides guide rollers oriented in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to hold pieces of freight in the horizontal direction. Additionally, cantilevered latching members hold a piece of freight against vertical and/or tilting movements. Both, the guide elements and the latching members are mounted to be tilted into the floor structure. The latching members perform simultaneously a rotating movement and a tilting movement when the device is moved or tilted into its recessed position below a top surface of the loading floor.