Body frame for vehicles

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1986-10-07

1988-04-05

Love, John J.

Motor vehicles

Special wheel base

Having only three wheels

180312, 280282, B62D 6108

Patent

active

047352752

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle which may be three-wheeled or four-wheeled, for instance, a buggy comprises a front wheel and a wishbone suspension for supporting the front wheel and a power unit. The body frame comprises a left subframe, a right subframe of essentially quadrilateral configuration, each subframe having an upper side, a front side, a lower side and a rear side. A reinforcing bar connects the front side and the lower side. The subframes form a first loop. The reinforcing bar forms a second loop with the upper side, the rear side, the front side and the lower side. The second loop is within the first loop. The first loop supports the front wheel wishbone suspension and the second loop supports the power unit. The front side has an upper portion and a lower portion and the lower side has a forward portion and a rear portion and the second loop is formed by the upper side, the upper portion of the front side, the rear portion of the lower side and the rear side. A down bar connects the upper bar to the lower side and intersects the reinforcing bar at a point P. The wishbone suspension is supported by the reinforicng bar and the lower side forwardly of point P and the power unit is supported rearwardly of the point P by the reinforcing bar and the lower side.

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