Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1998-10-16
2000-07-11
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
B60R 704
Patent
active
060861290
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle passenger compartment floor console includes a module receptacle and a plurality of interchangeable storage and appliance modules designed to fit within the module receptacle. The floor console may also include a drum-type carrousel supported for rotation about a generally horizontal axis within the console outer shell. The carrousel holds three storage modules and is positioned to sequentially rotate each module past an access opening cut or formed through the console outer shell. A passenger compartment occupant may use the console to selectively present any one of a number of interchangeable modules for occupant access while traveling.
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