Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1998-09-17
2000-10-24
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
296 2912, 296164, 296174, B62D 2700
Patent
active
061355259
ABSTRACT:
An expandable portable shelter that can be transported in the load bed of a truck comprises four or more elongated rectangular panels hinged together along their longer, horizontally disposed, edges and attached to over a cut-out in a sidewall of the shelter. When the shelter is collapsed for transport the panels adjacent the edges of the cut-out cover it and the other panels intrude inwards from the sidewall. To expand the shelter these panels are pushed outward to form a tubular expansion volume outboard of the truck's load bed. The ends of this rectangular tube are sealed with end-sealing panels hinged to the sidewall. The shelter can be removed from the truck's load bed after supporting the shelter on front and rear jack stands. The front jack stands have articulated legs that, when in their load-bearing positions, extend far enough outboard of the load bed that the truck can be driven out from under the structure without the truck's fenders contacting any portion of the front jack stand.
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Kiewit David
Pape Joseph D.
Patel Kiran
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