Cargo container securing means and system

• US 3,083,670 A
• Filed: 12/18/1959
• Issued: 04/02/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henry Kozlowski, Leslie A. Harlander
• Original Assignee: Henry Kozlowski, Leslie A. Harlander
• Inventors: Harlander, Leslie A., Kozlowski, Henry
• Application Number:
  US03/860,568
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• US Class Current: 410/85
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 7/13 Securing freight containers or forwarding containers on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 25/28 for deck loads
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2590/0016 Lashings means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/0006 Coupling devices between containers, e.g. ISO-containers coupling devices between containers and vehicles B60P7/13
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/75 having a joining piece extending through aligned openings in plural members

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION WITH THE DECK OF A SHIP AND A HATCH COVER CLOSING A HATCH OPENING FORMED IN SAID DECK WITH SAID COVER ELEVATED ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE DECK;

A PAIR OF PARALLEL, HORIZONTALLY SPACED BEAMS IN SIDE BY SIDE RELATION EXTENDING ACROSS SAID COVER;

SAID BEAMS INCLUDING OPPOSITE END PORTIONS RIGID THEREWITH PROJECTING LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF BEYOND TWO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID COVER;

SUPPORTS RIGID WITH SAID DECK AT SAID TWO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID COVER ON WHICH THE SAID END PORTIONS ARE SUPPORTED;

MEANS FOR RELEASABLY HOLDING SAID END PORTIONS ON SAID SUPPORTS AGAINST LATERAL AND LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID PORTIONS OFF SAID SUPPORTS;

AND MEANS ON SAID BEAMS PROJECTING UPWARDLY THEREFROM ADAPTED TO CONNECT WITH LOWER PORTIONS OF FREIGHT CONTAINERS FOR REMOVABLY HOLDING SUCH CONTAINERS AGAINST LATERAL SHIFTING RELATIVE TO SAID BEAMS.