Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1990-08-30
1992-10-13
Marmor, Charles A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296 36, 296100, 280789, 105378, B60P 702
Patent
active
051544806
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a pair of truck trailers, the first of which mounts on the fifth wheel of a pull-truck and has a single axle at the rear end and the second of which has a front axle and a rear axle and connects to the rear of the first trailer. Each of the pair of trailers is convertible from a flat-bed configuration for hauling units of finished lumber into a gondola configuration for hauling wood chips. Each trailer has a body consisting of a pair of upstanding, oppositely disposed sidewalls which are hinge mounted in a frame on the trailers and move from a vertical position forming the sides of a gondola body to a flat-bed condition wherein the sidewalls pivot upwardly into an over-lapped horizontal condition and form a flat-bed body with a top over the flat-bed.
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Boehler Anne
Marmor Charles A.
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