Crashable automobile frame

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1987-06-25

1989-03-07

Marbert, James B.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Body shell

296185, 296194, 296195, 296203, 293 42, B60R 1900

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048100285

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle having a frame designed to reduce the damage caused by collisions between vehicles. The design of the frame has a cone shaped front and rear, with the point of the cone low to the ground to get under and lift the other vehicle in the event the front or rear of the vehicle makes contact with a conventional vehicle. If two vehicles of this design meet front to front or front to rear, the cone shape promotes glancability so the vehicles will glance off of one another rather that smash each other. The design of this vehicle includes an oval cross section, therefore if a conventional vehicle hits the side of the invention it will hit on the curved part of the side of the vehicle at the main chassis beam which is very strong. The curved part of the frame will promote the vehicle being pushed up tending to roll it over thus absorbing part of the impact as the conventional vehicle tends to have its front end pushed into the ground by being under the curved part of the inventions frame.

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patent: 4684167 (1987-08-01), Newmayer
Automotive Parts and Accessories, J. C. Whitney and Co., 1982, p. 250, Catalog No. 422D.

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