Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Masayoshi Kishima

Hidemasa Hirakui

Yasuaki Hori

A rope hook arrangement for a vehicle has a case fixed to a vehicle body, and a movable member slidable rectilinearly in the case so that a rope hook fixed to the movable member can be projected from the vehicle body and retracted. A spring is disposed between the case and movable member for urging the movable member to a projected position. A push-lock-push-release mechanism is provided for holding the movable member in a middle position in which the rope hook is retracted, allowing the movable member to move to the projected position when the movable member is depressed from the middle position to a depressed position and unhanded at the depressed position, and allowing the movable member to return to the middle position when the movable member is depressed from the projected position to the depressed position and unhanded. The push-lock-push-release mechanism comprises a rotatable member mounted on the case, and engaging and actuating projections formed in the movable member. The rotatable member is rectangular, and has two longer sides which are flat and parallel, and two shorter sides which are notched. The actuating projection abuts on the rotatable member when the movable member is moved to the depressed position, and rotates the rotatable member from a lock position to a release position or vice versa. The engaging projection engages with one of the notched shorter sides of the rotatable member and holds the movable member in the middle position only when the rotatable member is in the lock position.

Retractable rope hook arrangement for vehicle

A rope hook arrangement for a vehicle has a case fixed to the vehicle body and a movable member slidable rectilinearly in the case. A rope hook fixed to one end of the movable member can be projected from the vehicle body and retracted. A spring is disposed between the case and movable member so that the movable member is always urged outwardly. A latch lever is swingably mounted on the movable member, and first and second pins are fixed to the case. The first pin engages with the latch lever and holds the movable member in a middle position in which the rope hook is snugly retracted. If the movable member is pushed down to a depressed position by hand, and unhanded at that position, the first pin pushes the latch lever to a release position, so that the movable member is lifted up by the spring to a projected position in which the rope hook is projected from the vehicle body. When the movable member is pushed down from the projected position to the middle position, the second pin pushes the latch lever to a lock position, so that the rope hook can be easily retracted.

Rope hook arrangement for vehicle

A hinge structure comprises a projecting shaft having an side-flattened ovaloid cross-section and secured either on both ends of the gate or on the gate holding sections on the loading bed gate which oppose the ends of the gate, a support member in the shape of a tube with a bottom secured on the other side of the ends of the gate and the gate holding sections and engaged with the projecting shaft in a relatively freely rotating manner, a slot provided in one part of a cylindrical section on the support member, through which the projecting shaft can pass only when the gate is positioned at a specific inclined position relative to the loading bed, so that removal and insertion are obtained in the side direction from the support member.

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Atsugi, Japan

Masayoshi Kishima