Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roof structure
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-09
2001-10-09
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roof structure
C296S100030, C296S100060, C296S100100, C296S183100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06299243
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to vehicles and more particularly pertains to a new vehicle with an adjustable roof for providing a vehicle with enhanced capacity by permitting adjustment of the position of the roof of the vehicle.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of vehicles is known in the prior art. More specifically, vehicles heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 3,731,968; U.S. Pat. No. 3,186,756; U.S. Pat. No. 4,462,631; U.S. Pat. No. 2,602,693; U.S. Pat. No. 4,261,613; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 109,521.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new vehicle with an adjustable roof. The inventive device includes an enhanced transport vehicle system, which comprises a vehicle having a front and a rear. The vehicle has a body including a cab portion located toward the front of the vehicle. The cab portion has a roof section. The body also includes a cargo portion extending rearwardly from the cab portion. The cargo portion has a floor and a pair of laterally spaced side walls extending upwardly in a substantially perpendicular orientation to the floor. The floor has a rear end, and the cargo portion has a roof section extending rearwardly from the roof section of the cab portion to a rear edge of the roof section. The side walls have upper edges extending substantially parallel to each other, and the upper edge of the side walls extend rearwardly from the rear edge of the roof section of the cargo portion. A roof portion is mounted on the cargo portion of the vehicle, and the roof portion has a front edge, a rear roof edge, and opposite lateral side edges extending between the front edge and rear roof edge. The roof portion is pivotable with respect to the roof section of the cargo portion of the vehicle.
In these respects, the vehicle with an adjustable roof according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a vehicle with enhanced capacity by permitting adjustment of the position of the roof of the vehicle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of vehicles now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new vehicle with an adjustable roof construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a vehicle with enhanced capacity by permitting adjustment of the position of the roof of the vehicle.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the vehicles mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new vehicle with an adjustable roof which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicles, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises an enhanced transport vehicle system, which comprises a vehicle having a front and a rear. The vehicle has a body including a cab portion located toward the front of the vehicle. The cab portion has a roof section. The body also includes a cargo portion extending rearwardly from the cab portion. The cargo portion has a floor and a pair of laterally spaced side walls extending upwardly in a substantially perpendicular orientation to the floor. The floor has a rear end, and the cargo portion has a roof section extending rearwardly from the roof section of the cab portion to a rear edge of the roof section. The side walls have upper edges extending substantially parallel to each other, and the upper edge of the side walls extend rearwardly from the rear edge of the roof section of the cargo portion. A roof portion is mounted on the cargo portion of the vehicle, and the roof portion has a front edge, a rear roof edge, and opposite lateral side edges extending between the front edge and rear roof edge. The roof portion is pivotable with respect to the roof section of the cargo portion of the vehicle.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the vehicles mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new vehicle with an adjustable roof which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicles, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof, which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such vehicle with an adjustable roof economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle with an adjustable roof for providing a vehicle with enhanced capacity by permitting adjustment of the position of the roof of the vehicle.
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Blankenship Greg
Pape Joseph D.
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