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• Main Author: HIRATA KAZUO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.08.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS,e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES,DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; PACKAGES; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; STORING; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TOCARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a load from collapsing without going through any troublesome work by providing an interlocking mechanism for moving a load holding member to a position away from the load or to an engaging position by virtue of the opening and closing action of an outer door which opens and closes the loading/unloading opening. SOLUTION: When a loading/unloading opening 6 is opened by lifting up an outer door 7 at the time of performing a loading or an unloading work, a lock weight 27 connected to a wire 26 ascends and an inner shutter 8 is lifted up by the lock weight 27 locking to the lower end frame through a ratch. When unloading is finished and the outer door 7 is closed, the lock weight 27 connected to the outer door 7 descends and departs from the ratch on the inner shutter 8. Thus the inner shutter 8 descends with its dead weight for being free and stops at a position where it is made to abut upon the upper surface of the outer load L0 . By the vehicle running under this condition, the inner shutter 8 presses down the stacked up load L1 on the inner side in a vertically erected state and prevents specially the load on the upper part from collapsing.