Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1998-03-20
2000-02-08
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296 392, 298 7, B60P 100
Patent
active
060220686
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight body for a dump truck includes a floor with a pair of opposed spaced upwardly extending side walls coupled thereto. An upwardly extending front wall is included and coupled to the floor between the side walls to thereby create a space for carrying a payload and a rearward spillway for dumping the payload. The floor is formed of a plurality of adjacently positioned sections that are either separate pieces or form part of one continuous piece. The sections are arranged in an order of increasing thickness or hardness with the thickest or hardest section located at the spillway. This body structure substantially reduces weight while simultaneously preserving body strength, thereby allowing dump truck payload capability to be increased.
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Caterpillar Inc.
Dayoan D. Glenn
Wells Chad D.
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