Load carrier for vehicles

US5445300A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Konrad Eipper · Herrenberg, DE
• Lothar Bottcher · Magstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 15, 1995
• Grant date: Aug 29, 1995
• Expiry date: Feb 15, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S224/924
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A load carrier for transporting bulky articles on vehicles, having two beams connected by a cross-strut, the cross-strut being able to secure a load to be carried, has holding tubes that are securable to a rear of a vehicle and extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The beams are insertable into the holding tubes, and have angled ends. The beams are displaceable by a defined amount in the longitudinal direction in the holding tubes between a rest position in which the beams are under the vehicle and a use position in which the beams project beyond the rear of the vehicle. The beams are fixable in the rest and use positions and mounted so as to each be pivotable about the axis of one of the holding tubes into one of two different end positions. The angled ends of the beams are swivellably articulated on the cross-strut. The beams project beyond the rear of the vehicle and are swivelled upwards with their angled ends when in the use position. In the rest position, the ends of the beams are swivelled into a plane defined by the holding tubes and the beams are inserted into the holding tubes to such an extent that a rear edge of the load carrier is approximately flush with …