Crossbar device for limiting cargoes from falling

Patent 5890856 Issued on April 6, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 5, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Huang, Han-Ching

Application

No. 092148 filed on 06/05/1998

US Classes:

410/151, Wall-to-wall force fit; or having wall piercing end410/143, Brace bar, wall-to-wall410/145Axially adjustable toward wall, e.g., telescopic

Examiners

Primary: Gordon, Stephen T.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Baxley, Esq.; Charles E.

Foreign Patent References

14970 EP 09/12/1980

International Class

B60P 007/15

Abstract

A crossbar device includes an outer tube with an inner tube retractably received in the outer tube, an adjusting device disposed to the outer tube and having two pawl members pivotally disposed therein which has a connecting member connected therebetween and the connecting member is actuated by an actuating member disposed to the adjusting device. A pressing member is movably received in the adjusting device and has an end thereof engaged with one of the pawl member so that when pushing the pushing member downwardly, the pawl members are pivoted and disengaged from an toothed surface of the inner tube so that the inner tube is freely moved corresponding to the outer tube.