Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1996-03-01
1998-01-06
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
296171, 296173, 296175, 49325, 74 8922, B60P 334
Patent
active
057046778
ABSTRACT:
A mobile housing is provided with a plurality of telescopic standards mounted on a base for movably supporting the top of the mobile housing between a lowered position and a raised position relative to the base. A first pair and a second pair of slidable pistons are mounted in the base for simultaneous movement between a first position and a second position, the movement of each of the pair of pistons being substantially parallel and in opposite directions to one another. A first pair and a second pair of tubes, are provided with longitudinally extending slots and a flexible conduit extends from each of the tubes to one of the standards. Each of the tubes of the first pair and each of the tubes of the second pair are disposed in spaced parallel relationship to each other between the first and the second positions. A plurality of flexible, elongated, incompressible connector elements supported in the tubes and in the conduits are connected between the pair of pistons and respective ones of the standards for movement with the pistons in the tubes to prevent buckling and unnecessary flexing of the elements during raising and lowering of the top from the retracted position to the raised position. Drive means is coupled to each of the pair of pistons to effect simultaneous movement thereof between the first and the second positions. In a second embodiment, the tubes are replaced by a one-piece master tube in the form of an extrusion having separated guide channels for receiving the connector elements and preventing buckling or lateral movement of the connector elements. Snap on end caps are connected to the master tube and to the flexible conduits.
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Steury Edwin J.
Steury Virgil H.
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