Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1975-10-08
1977-03-29
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
B62D 2700
Patent
active
040145875
ABSTRACT:
Car platform chassis structure adapted to have an open-bottomed body balloon structure assembled thereon, the platform structure comprising main side sills extending beyond wheel-wells with inwardly displaced end portions at the wheel wells, the main side sills having a plurality of longitudinally spaced cross-members secured therebetween providing dash-firewall, front seat support and back seat support and vertically spaced horizontal plate-like members secured on cross-members therebetween to form a box-like structure in the front wheel-well zone, a floor pan secured beneath the cross-members between wheel-well zones, longitudinally spaced vertical bulkheads secured to the outer sides of the main side sills in the space between wheel-well zones, and outer auxiliary side sills between the wheel-well zones secured to the main side sills over the bulkheads, the hollow spaces of the side sills being filled, if desired, with rigidifying material, as of plastic foam, either pre-formed or injected.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3419303 (1968-12-01), Eggert et al.
patent: 3455595 (1969-07-01), Wessells et al.
Church Gene A.
Song Robert R.
The Budd Company
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