AUTOMOTIVE SUPPORT STRUCTURE Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B60R9/04 B60R9/08 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: mounted support consists of load-bearing bed secured at car body, fast-release collapsible props and load-bearing crossbars. This support comprises standard luggage racks equipped with front and rear bumpers located at brackets with clearance between the body. Crossbar is secured atop bumper brackets and including two seats with bayonet hooks on top sides and with thrusts on bottom. Fast-release props are fitted in crossbar seats by lower end provided with bayonet stud and lower hinges and turned to closure. Crossbars with ears with through holes and U-like hooks at outer ears are fitted at top ends of props provided with threaded adjusting risers with load-bearing bushes. Ears are connected with load-bearing bushes of said threaded risers by fast-release pins equipped with top hinges which as-closed fit in U-like hook at outer ears. Diagonal braces arranged between top hinges of pins and prop lower hinges allow the stiffness of front and rear supports with simultaneous closure of bayonet hooks at crossbar and prop stud at the bottom at props as well as fast-release pins with U-like hooks at the top. Adjustment of length of adjusting threaded rises allows levelling said crossbar with the luggage rack lengthwise surface. Withdrawn supports are placed in soft bags and carried inside internal trunk or inside car cabin.

EFFECT: higher load-bearing capacity.

6 cl, 7 dwg