Vehicle supporting ramps for cargo containers

Claim 1

A knockdown disposable vehicle supporting ramp for mounting on the floor of a container for elevating the rear end of a vehicle having wheels thereon for nesting in-line with another similarly elevated vehicle comprising; a ramp assembly having a U-shaped cross-sectional configuration, said ramp assembly having vertical side and rear walls connected to each other, said side walls each having an inclined ramp section and a wheel positioning section, said ramp section having downwardly inclined edges in said side walls extending from said wheel positioning section to the container floor, said ramp assembly being constructed of corrugated fiberboard having load-supporting vertically-extending corrugations, a longitudinally-extending wheel guide ramp and wheel well mounted on said ramp assembly, said wheel guide ramp being supported on said inclined edges of said ramp section and said wheel well being positioned in said wheel positioning section, reinforcing ramp supporting means mounted between said side walls for supporting a load on said wheel guide ramp, said wheel guide ramp having a lower end and an upper end, means securing said lower end of said wheel guide ramp to the container floor, means for retaining said upper end in said wheel positioning section for receiving and supporting a vehicle wheel on said wheel well, a four-sided liner cooperatively receivable in said wheel positioning section for supporting a load including reinforced cardboard having vertically extending corrugations, a back stop corrugated fiberboard member having vertical corrugations spaced from said rear wall in said wheel positioning section forming an opening for cooperatively receiving therein a portion of said wheel well, and a plurality of spaced reinforced plies of corrugated fiberboard having vertically-extending corrugations for supporting a load within said four-sided liner to which the wheel well is subjected.