Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Grain tanks
Patent
1982-04-05
1984-04-03
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Grain tanks
296 91, B62D 3500
Patent
active
044404336
ABSTRACT:
An air deflector is adapted to be mounted on a vehicle and, by deflecting air, to reduce turbulence and drag associated with another vehicle which is towed by the first vehicle. The air deflector includes a side shield to extend outwardly and rearwardly outside a side wall of the front vehicle along the side wall, and a mounting for the shield, to mount the shield on the front vehicle. The side shield has an inner edge surface which defines an edge surface contour for facing the side wall of the vehicle in close proximity to such side wall. The mounting is adapted to accomplish the facing-close proximity relationship between the inner edge surface of the shield and the side wall of the vehicle. The mounting includes a post to insert in a substantially vertical opening provided on the front vehicle, and a brace. The post has a surface to extend outwardly and rearwardly and to abut the rear surface of the shield. The brace has a shield flange to extend outwardly and rearwardly and to also abut the rear surface of the shield, and a vehicle flange to extend along and to abut the side wall of the front vehicle. The shield and mounting are adapted to provide the close proximity between the inner edge surface and the side wall of the front vehicle while maintaining such inner edge surface and side wall in spaced-apart relation. The air deflector is particularly adapted for use on a pick-up truck. Method aspects, i.e., a method of providing an air deflector, are in accordance with the described air deflector and its use.
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Williams Wallace W.
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