Abstract: A clamping device for locking articles onto the bar of a car top carrier, wherein the clamping device has a base member, a lever arm and a pair of links. The links are pivotally attached at opposite ends thereof respectively to the base and lever arm with the pivots spaced apart from one another and arranged so as to lock in an over-center article clamp down position. An article engaging member is secured to one of the link arms and projects therefrom beyond the lever arm adjacent one end of the same and a finger operable lever lock means is pivotally attached to the lever arm at the other end thereof and engageable with the other link for locking the lever arm in an article securing position. The base member and lever arm are channel-shaped members internested one within the other in an article locking position and have aligned apertures in such position for receiving a padlock to make the unit burglar proof.

Abstract: A roof rack securable to the rain gutters of a motor-vehicle roof above the door openings has a leg subassembly with a support, a leg standing in the gutter above the respective door opening and carrying the support, and the leg is secured to the respective gutter. A holddown member is pivoted on the support and displaceable between a locking position close to same for securing an object to the support and a freeing position spaced from the support. A locking element extends into the respective door opening underneath the leg and is vertically displaceable relative thereto between an upper position relatively close underneath the respective gutter and a lower position spaced downward therefrom. Thus the locking element can only move into the respective lower position when the respective door is not closed in the respective door opening.

Abstract: A luggage carrier of the kind comprising a support rod and support legs connected with the ends thereof, the support legs having fastening devices for fastening the luggage carrier to a vehicle, preferably the rain gutter of the roof of the vehicle.The support rod of the luggage carrier is constituted by at least two concentrically positioned portions (18, 20) which are concentrically displaceable in relation to each other for allowing adjustment of the length of the support rod and thereby that the luggage carrier is adapted to the width of the vehicle. The support rod can be dismounted or pushed together to a space-saving position of the luggage carrier. The luggage carrier comprises a locking device for securing the portions of the support rod in a desired relative position.According to the invention the securing device is constituted by two complementary securing means (24-30; 32) each connected with separate portions (18, 20) of the support rod.

Abstract: An auto luggage carrier comprising multiple support units, each of which having a cross bar secured to the vehicle at its respective ends. Vertically adjustable load supports adjacent the units ends match the vehicles top configuration and secure the support units to the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle attached carrier for mounting on the roof or trunk lid of a vehicle. The carrier includes a plurality of vehicle engaging devices for supporting a load support on the surface of the vehicle. The vehicle attaching devices each include an elongated load distributing member having a pair of relatively parallel pivot pins extending crosswise adjacent opposite ends. The load distributing member is attached intermediate its ends to the load support to transmit downwardly applied forces substantially equally to both pivot pins. First and second foot members are mounted on the pivot pins for pivotal movement about the axis of the pivot pins and for tilting movement in a direction crosswise of the pivot pins to allow the vehicle engaging surface on the foot members to conform to the longitudinal and transverse curvature of the surface of the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor car body with concealed drip moulding arrangement, whereby a rain channel formed from a fold in the edge of a roof-plate, possibly connected with a part of an internal and/or external side wall plate is covered in the side view by the edge of an adjacent pivotable door or a fixed cover.

Abstract: Mounting means for an airfoil member for mounting the member above the roof of the cab of a tractor in order to reduce the air-drag on the trailer unit, the inclination of the airfoil member being adjustable by clampable pivot means provided in support arms. At the right hand clampable pivot point, a pair of grip washers having undulations are welded to the support arm and tube bracket and urged into light clamping contact by means of a spring washer and nut and bolt. At the left hand clampable pivot point, a pair of grip washers having undulations are likewise welded to the support arm and tube bracket, and rigidly held in engagement by means of a head having an internally threaded portion engaging with the threaded shank of a bolt, a detachable handle being provided for quick clamping, and release to thus enable the driver to release the clamping mechanism and reset the inclination of the airfoil member in minimum time and effort.

Abstract: In a fastening device for supporting brackets or luggage racks for automotive vehicles, the tensioning screw which biases the clamping claw against the supporting foot and the roof gutter is overlapped by a protecting cap which is non-separably connected with the clamping claw. The protecting cap has a mounting aperture through which the tensioning screw can be actuated with a tool. The mounting aperture can be closed by a locking device which can be actuated by a key and closes the mounting aperture only in the locking position.

Abstract: This invention provides a fastening device for roof racks which is clamped only on one side of a car. The fastening comprises a support bar 10, a rigid leg 12 which embraces one of the lateral rails 2 which make up the roof of the car and a second leg 13 which is adjustably attached to the other lateral rail.

Abstract: The device for securing the hull of a watercraft and/or a sailboat mast comprises a locking bar the lower end of which has a hook, an annular eyelet or a crosshead by means of which the locking arm can be secured on a portion of the roof carrier which supports the hull of the watercraft and is secured to the roof of an automotive vehicle or on the sailboat mast which can be inserted between the roof and the roof carrier during transport. The upper end of the locking bar has a thread onto which can be screwed a flange or nut by means of which the hull of the watercraft or the sailboat mast can be securely clamped. The threadedly connectable flange or nut acts either upon the hull of the watercraft, e.g., a surfboard, or upon a portion of the roof carrier when the sailboat mast is secured by the locking bar. If this safety device is to be used in connection with the hull of a watercraft, it is necessary that the hull be provided with a through opening, for example, a daggerboard opening.

Abstract: Luggage-carrier or auxiliary luggage compartment for motor cars, characterized in that it consists of at least a base serving as loading floor and equipped with supports fitting the car roof and of means allowing the removable fixation of said base to said car roof.

Abstract: A motor vehicle roof carrier for the affixation of skis and other ojbects to be transported, consisting of a carrier tube which is constituted by two pieces (1, 1') shiftable for width adjustment, and clamping parts (3, 6) shiftable relative to one another by means of a spindle (4) for the affixation of the roof carrier at the rain channels of the vehicle roof.

Abstract: A car top carrier support which is operable for use on the gutters of a car top as well as on a gutterless car top including ledges at its opposite sides. The carrier support comprises a H-shaped frame with one longitudinal main tube and at least a pair of cross tubes. A central operating mechanism is mounted in the main tube and connected by four Bowden cables with four claws which are movably guided in legs fastened at the cross tubes for clamping the carrier support at the car top. By swinging only one hand lever of the central operating mechanism between two positions the carrier support is free to be removed from the car top. A key-operated locking device co-operating with the central operating mechanism provides a theftproof arrangement. Wire cables fastened at securing pins can be turned around articles on the carrier support and the pins can be locked in a theftproof way by the same central operating mechanism.

Abstract: A roof carrier for use on motor vehicles for supporting surfing boards or the like on the roof includes a supporting structure consisting of a plurality of interconnected transversely and longitudinally extending elements, at least one holder assemblable with the supporting structure and a sliding member mounted on one of the elements for displacement between a withdrawn and an engaging position and so acting on the holder in its engaging position as to maintain the holder in engagement with the one element. The sliding member is provided with a lug which secures the sliding member in its engaging position. The one element and the sliding member are provided with a slot-shaped apertures with register with one another in the withdrawn position to let an enlarged end portion of the holder to pass therethrough and the common cross section of which in the engaging position is smaller than the transverse dimension of the enlarged end portion to prevent extraction of the latter.

Abstract: A mounting bracket having a P- shape to be clampingly secured along a drip gutter of a vehicle wherein a brace means extends between first and second leg means and a clamping plate is movably mounted onto the first leg means for clampingly securing the mounting bracket onto the drip gutter.