Ladder section carrier construction

Abstract

A carrier construction for disconnected sections of a hunter's tree ladder has a pair of spaced apart upright rails, joined at corresponding ends by upper and lower cross members. Each rail has a vertical slot terminating at its upper end in a transverse passage. Individual ladder sections may pass through the passages into the vertical slot and be accommodated therein for storage or transport. The carrier facilitates the handling of a plurality of disconnected ladder sections.

1 . A carrier construction for supporting one or more elongate objects, said construction comprising a body having a pair of spaced apart, upright rails connected to one another at opposite ends by upper and lower cross members, each of said rails having therein a longitudinally extending slot of such length and width as slideably to accommodate one or more of said objects, each said rail having a passage in communication with the associated slot in such rail and of such width as to enable each of said objects to pass into and out of said slots via the associated passages. 
     
     
         2 . The construction according to  claim 1  wherein said upper cross member spans said rails and provides a support for carrying said body. 
     
     
         3 . The construction according to  claim 2  wherein said upper cross member has in its lower surface a downwardly concave recess. 
     
     
         4 . The construction according to  claim 1  wherein each of said objects has a length greater than the space between said rails. 
     
     
         5 . The construction according to  claim 4  wherein each of said objects has at least two spaced laterally extending projections, the spacing between adjacent projections being less than the space between said rails. 
     
     
         6 . The construction according to  claim 1  including latch means carried by each of said rails for selectively opening and closing the associated passage. 
     
     
         7 . The construction according to  claim 1  wherein said lower cross member is of such area as to support said body in an upright position. 
     
     
         8 . A carrier construction for supporting one or more separable, elongate ladder sections, said construction comprising a body having a pair of spaced apart, upright parallel rails connected at corresponding ends by lower and upper cross members, each said ladder section having a length greater than the spacing between said rails, each said rail having therein an elongate slot extending between said cross members, each said slot having a width greater than that of each of said sections, thereby enabling each said slot to accommodate any of said sections, each said rail having adjacent one end thereof a laterally extending passage in communication with the slot in the associated rail, each said passage being of such width as slideably to accommodate any one of said sections, thereby enabling any one of said sections to pass into and out of said slots via said passages. 
     
     
         9 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein said upper cross member has a lower surface in which is a downwardly concave recess. 
     
     
         10 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein each of said cross members is of such length as to span said rails. 
     
     
         11 . The construction according to  claim 8  including latch means for selectively opening and closing each said passage. 
     
     
         12 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein said lower cross member is of such area as to support said body in an upright position. 
     
     
         13 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein each of said sections has at least two longitudinally spaced, laterally extending projections, the spacing between adjacent projections being less that the space between said rails. 
     
     
         14 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein each of a selected plurality of said sections has a socket at one end thereof and a reduced cross-sectional extension at its opposite end, the cross sectional area of said opposite end being sufficiently less than that of said socket as to enable said socket to accommodate an extension corresponding to said reduced cross-sectional extension. 
     
     
         15 . The construction according to  claim 14  wherein said extension and said socket are of telescoping quadrilateral configuration. 
     
     
         16 . The construction according to  claim 8  wherein each said section has a pair of stabilizing arms extending laterally from said ladder section and forming an included angle. 
     
     
         17 . The construction according to  claim 16  wherein said included angle in substantially 90°.