Freight accommodation on freight carrier inventions 04/09

20090110506 - Automatic bottom lock: The present invention provides an automatic bottom lock comprises a lock base, and a lock body fastened above the lock base comprising a hook provided thereon having a transverse guiding slope extending forward and downwardly from a top at a front side of the hook, a hooking slope extending backward... Agent: Zhen Zheng Lu

20090097935 - Gantry stacker with two side-by-side spreaders: A gantry stacker for transporting and stacking freight containers consists of two chassis beams with steerable wheels, supports, a hoist, an overhead frame, a lifting beam a driver's cab and engines. There are at least two spreaders that are movable in a horizontal direction independent of each other and are... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090097936 - Low-profile wheel chock assembly: A low elevational profile of each of a pair of first and second wheel chocks for restraining a current “low-drag” motor vehicle in a carrier, such as a railway car, is derived from each wheel chock having an internally webbed, elongated stepped-box body terminated with a relatively short rectangular box... Agent: Alfred D. Lobo & Co., L.p.a.

20090097937 - Flexible handle interbox connector: An interbox connector having a body with upper and lower cone portions and a flexible handle extending from the body for operating the cones. The flexible handle includes a continuous section of flexible wire and a plurality of sleeves which surround and are secured about the wire.... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090097938 - Support assembly for use with truck bed: A support assembly for use with truck bed comprises first mounting frame 5, second mounting frame 6, first horizontal arm portion 11, first vertical arm portion 12, first arm mounting holes 13, second horizontal arm portion 21, second vertical arm portion 22, first mounting end 24 of second vertical arm... Agent: Ronald J. Koch

20090087278 - Barrier with integrated wheelchair restraints: The embodiment described and claimed herein are improved barrier-type wheelchair securement systems. In particular, one embodiment of a barrier includes an integral shoulder belt assembly, two integral wheelchair restraint assemblies, and two integral lap belt assemblies. The wheelchair restraint and lap belt assemblies comprise retractors which can be mounted external... Agent: David I. Roche Baker & Mckenzie