YZ- latch for tying freight to a loading floor

US6139232A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler Chrysler Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Veronika Niklas · Hamburg, DE
• Hartmut Sempert · Delmenhorst, DE
• Torsten Eilts · Colomiers, FR
• Bernd Schernikau · Hamburg, DE
• Claus Voelker · Stuhr, DE
• Volker Eckert · Oldenburg, DE
• Bernhard Czisz · Bassum, DE
• Hans-Guenther Mix · Ganderkesee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C1/20
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A YZ-latch for holding down a piece of freight on a loading floor in an aircraft which has a base holding an axle stub which in turn has mounted thereon two rollers for rolling contact with the freight piece. One roller holds against lateral displacement in the Y-direction. The other roller holds against vertical displacement in the Z-direction. Free movement is permitted in the X-direction. Either the axle stub with fixed rollers is rotatable, or the rollers are rotatable on the fixed axle stub, or at least one roller or both rollers are rotatable on a rotatable axle stub.