Wheel chock for a motor vehicle container
First Claim
1. A wheel chock for an intermodal container for motor vehicles adapted to be removably connected to and supported on first and second parallel spaced inverted U-shaped chock-rails fastened to the floor of the container, said chock adapted to be generally engaged by a vehicle wheel, each of said rails including a top surface on which the chock is supported, one of said rails including a plurality of spaced notched openings each of which defines a lip, the other of said rails including a plurality of spaced holes, said chock having a main body molded of a flexible material, chock-rail interfaces at opposite ends adapted to be in contact engagement, at least one boss/catch on one end of the body formed to be engageable in a notched opening to prevent movement longitudinally of the rail and under the lip to prevent movement upwardly of the rail, said boss/catch being engageable with the rail by insertion in a notched opening and by movement transverse the rail to engage the lip, at least one pin mounted at the other end of the body engageable in a hole of the other rail against movement longitudinally or upwardly of the rail, and a latch at said other end of the chock for selectively latching the chock to the rail against movement transverse the rails, said chock and rails coacting to support the chock above the container floor.
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Abstract
A wheel chock for a motor vehicle container made of composite material which is adapted to be selectively connected to a pair of rails fastened to the container floor, and which is made of a flexible copolymer material capable of withstanding the loads incurred by vehicles restrained by the chocks, and which is constructed to be easily connected to and disconnected from the rails and be supported above the container floor to prevent damage to the floor.
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- 1. A wheel chock for an intermodal container for motor vehicles adapted to be removably connected to and supported on first and second parallel spaced inverted U-shaped chock-rails fastened to the floor of the container, said chock adapted to be generally engaged by a vehicle wheel, each of said rails including a top surface on which the chock is supported, one of said rails including a plurality of spaced notched openings each of which defines a lip, the other of said rails including a plurality of spaced holes, said chock having a main body molded of a flexible material, chock-rail interfaces at opposite ends adapted to be in contact engagement, at least one boss/catch on one end of the body formed to be engageable in a notched opening to prevent movement longitudinally of the rail and under the lip to prevent movement upwardly of the rail, said boss/catch being engageable with the rail by insertion in a notched opening and by movement transverse the rail to engage the lip, at least one pin mounted at the other end of the body engageable in a hole of the other rail against movement longitudinally or upwardly of the rail, and a latch at said other end of the chock for selectively latching the chock to the rail against movement transverse the rails, said chock and rails coacting to support the chock above the container floor.
- 15. A wheel chock for an intermodal container for motor vehicles adapted to be removably connected to and supported on first and second parallel spaced inverted U-shaped chock-rails fastened to the floor of the container, said chock adapted to be generally engaged by a vehicle wheel, each of said rails including a top wall extending generally horizontally and downwardly extending spaced and generally vertically extending side walls, said rails extending longitudinally of the container and being at one side of the container and between which the automobile wheel is received, said first rail being the inside rail and including a plurality of equally spaced notched openings along a part of the top wall and part of a side wall to define a lip at the top wall, said second rail being the outside rail and including a plurality of spaced holes in the vertically extending side wall closest to the inside rail, said chock having a main body molded of a flexible copolymer material, chock-rail interfaces at the opposite ends adapted to be in contact engagement with the rails, a plurality of boss/catches integrally molded with the body at one end and formed to be engageable in said notched openings against movement longitudinally of the rail, each boss/catch including a projection adapted to underlie said lip and prevent movement upwardly of the rail, said boss/catch being engageable with the rail by insertion in a notched opening and by movement transverse the rail to engage the lip, a plurality of pins mounted at the other end of the chock body engageable in said holes of the outside rail to prevent movement longitudinally and upwardly of the rail, said chock and rails coacting to support the chock above the container floor, and latching means at the end of the chock body where the pins are mounted for selectively latching the chock against movement transverse the rails.
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