Patent · US Expired

Device for locking a container to a vehicle chassis

US6074142A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJul 22, 1998
Grant dateJun 13, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 22, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60P7/132
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a device for locking a container to a vehicle chassis, having a housing (1), which on the housing side toward the container is provided with a protruding guide block (2); and having a rotary knob (3), which is supported in the housing (1) and which has a shaft (4), guided in the guide block (2), a hammerhead-shaped locking portion (5) protruding past the guide block (2), and an actuation portion (6) disposed on the opposite direction from the locking portion (5), the locking being effected by rotation of the rotary knob (3) about an actuation angle of approximately 90.degree., it is provided, in order to assure simple and secure actuation, that the guide block (2) has a rotation limiting portion (17) with at least two stops acting in the rotational direction; and that the rotary knob (3) has at least one radially protruding extension (22), which limits the rotation of the rotary knob (3) in both rotational directions, by contact with the respective stops of the rotation limiting portion (17), to the rotational range of the actuation angle between a locking position and a release position.

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