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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard C Bennett, Mundelein, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
410 84 ; 410 77 ; 410 36 ;
Abstract
A truck bed is divided into a plurality of bays, each bay being defined by a pair of dividers. In each bay is a pallet. The latching mechanism comprises a bolt which is spring-loaded outwardly, through the keeper hole in the adjacent divider. A triangular link is rotatably mounted at a fixed pivot point. The bolt is coupled to a second point on the link. An actuator is movable substantially vertically and is attached to a third point on the link. When the fork of a lift truck engages the actuator and raises it, the link is caused to rotate about the fixed pivot point, to withdraw the bolt and thereby unlatch the latching mechanism.