Locking element

摘要

To secure containers in a cargo bay of an aircraft, locking elements are known comprising locking lugs which can move from a locked position to a rest position. The locking lugs engage in engagement recesses of freight items. On movement of the locking lugs from the locked position to the rest position, the locking lugs can seize in the engagement recesses. A locking element is proposed to which a pair of locking lugs is allocated which in the locked position each have a stop surface which can be brought into engagement on a stop edge of the engagement recess, wherein the locking lugs are mounted mobile such that on movement from the locked position to a rest position, the two stop surfaces separate from the stop edges. As a result the space required in the holding direction for the locking lugs and the risk of seizing of the locking lugs in the engagement recess are substantially reduced.

主权项

1. A locking element for securing containers or pallets in a cargo bay of an aircraft,
wherein the containers or pallets comprise engagement recesses with opposing stop edges in which locking lugs engage in a locked position and configured to be moved back into a rest position, wherein each locking element is allocated a pair of locking lugs which in the locked position can each be brought with a stop surface into engagement on a stop edge of the engagement recess, wherein the locking lugs are mounted mobile such that the two stop surfaces separate from the stop edges on movement from the locked position into the rest position, the locking lugs of a pair are connected together in opposing directions via a connecting pin in a slide recess formed in one of the lugs such that movement of one locking lug carries the other locking lug with it, wherein the locking element comprises two permanently fixed rotating axes wherein each of said locking lugs of said pair rotates around one of said permanently fixed rotating axes, respectively, when being moved from the locked position into the rest position.