Front bumper assembly for a truck

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1988-09-15

1990-11-27

Marmor, Charles A.

Motor vehicles

Power

Hoods

180 8917, 293118, 293121, 293155, B62D 3306

Patent

active

049729136

ABSTRACT:
A truck of the cab-over-engine type is disclosed herein and includes a cab mounted over the truck engine and many of the engine's cooperating components for pivotal movement between an upstanding, operating position and a titled, maintenance position. The truck also includes a frontal nose hood mounted to and in front of the cab for its own pivotal movement between a closed, generally vertical operating position and a tilted, open position for gaining access to certain ones of the components cooperating with the engine. A front bumper assembly is provided in front of the nose hood and includes a first bumper arrangement connected for pivotal movement with and forming part of the frontal nose hood and a second bumper arrangement maintained in a fixed position and unconnected with the first bumper arrangement, whereby when the frontal nose hood and first bumper arrangement are pivoted to an open position, the second bumper arrangement remains in a fixed position. In the actual embodiment shown herein, the first bumper arrangement is comprised of a number of integrally formed plastic sections while the second bumper arrangement consists of the frontmost cross member of the truck's chassis frame.

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CONCO International Trucks.
IVECO-Presseschau.

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