Deck panel for cargo carrying vehicle

摘要

The combination of a cargo carrying vehicle and a deck panel. The cargo carrying vehicle has a storage space and a plurality of parallel elongate load beams in the space. A lower surface of the deck panel engages each of the first and second elongate load beams. The body has a plurality of discrete components depending from the lower surface that are abuttable to the load beams to thereby limit shifting of the deck panel. The upper surface has at least a first opening and the lower surface has at least a first complementary projection. A second deck panel, the same as the first deck panel, can be stacked on the first deck panel so that a corresponding at least first projection on the second deck panel extends into the at least first opening to maintain the first and second deck panels in a predetermined stacked relationship.

主权项

1. A deck panel for use in a cargo carrying vehicle, comprising:
a body configured to rest upon a plurality of elongate load beams that are configured to be aligned in parallel in a storage space of a cargo carrying vehicle, the body comprising oppositely facing upper and lower surfaces, the lower surface comprising a plurality of discrete components depending therefrom and abuttable to at least one of the plurality of elongate load beams when the body rests thereupon, wherein engagement between the plurality of discrete components and the plurality of elongate load beams limits shifting of the body with respect to the load beams; the upper surface having a plurality of openings and the lower surface having a plurality of projections wherein each one of the plurality of openings corresponds with one of the plurality of projections, each of the plurality of openings and each of the plurality of projections comprise shapes that are complementary such that a second deck panel, the same as the first deck panel, can be stacked on the first deck panel so that a corresponding at least first projection depending from a lower surface on the second deck panel extends into the at least first opening to maintain the first and second deck panels in a predetermined stacked relationship, wherein each of the plurality of openings comprises a bottom portion that comprises one or more raised steps extending vertically above a remainder of the bottom portion, such that the projection depending from the lower surface on the second deck panel engages a top surface of the one or more raised steps.