Vehicle roof top storage system with adjustable pillars and longitudinal rails supporting containers with a low centre of gravity and incorporating a means of storing and deploying an awning
CA 2408854 A1 · Owner: Macdonald, Keith A. · Inventors: Wood, Robert A.R.; Macdonald, Keith A.
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A roof top storage system for vehicles allowing a load to be carried on the top of a vehicle so as to keep the centre of gravity of the load as low as possible without altering the roof of the vehicle. The roof top storage system includes two rails placed longitudinally above the sides of the roof. A series of fabricated load holding containers for dry goods and liquids are arranged between the two longitudinal rails and attached to the rails so the floors of the containers are in close proximity to the top of the vehicle roof. Support pillars for the longitudinal rails are adjustable in "T" shaped slots fashioned into the outward surface of the rails so as to allow the position of such …
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- Filed November 8, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 8, 2022.
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