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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
Jim Nelson, Saint Augustine, FL (US);
Buffers USA Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
A freight container twistlock device for engaging a carrier to a freight container. The device having a housing, a shear block engaged on a top of the housing, a stem engaged to a twistlock head, and passing through both the housing and the shear block, a handle engaged to an end of the stem opposite to the twistlock head to rotate the twistlock head into a locked or unlocked position relative to the freight container, a roll pin fixed to the stem within the housing, and an adjustable handle positioner selectively engaged in the housing to limit turning of the handle when engaged by the roller pin from an open position of the handle to a closed position of the handle from either a left side of the open position or a right side of the open position.