Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Converting
Patent
1993-05-21
1994-04-26
Eley, Timothy V.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Converting
29416, 298972, 296 391, 296183, B23P 1704, B60J 710, B60R 1301
Patent
active
053055128
ABSTRACT:
A method of producing a truck-like conversion van starts with a conventional, cargo van, and vertically cuts the conventional van only partially along a vertical section of the main frame of the vehicle, just rearwardly of the side doors of the van. Thereafter, a horizontal cut is made starting from the bottom of the vertical cut and progressing rearwardly all the way through the frame or existing floor of the van. Thus a rectangular-shaped slab or cutout of the conventional van is removed. The horizontal plane in which the horizontal cut is made is above the top of the rear tail lights, so that, not only are all of the mechanical parts of the original van retained, but also the same, original tail lights are also retained. After the slab has been cut away and removed, a truck-bed liner-insert of the invention is inserted into the cut-away, rear portion of the van, which rear portion is partially hollow, by which the liner-insert may be received therein. The truck-bed liner-insert is shaped in order to simulate the bed of a conventional pick-up truck, whereby the conversion van may now take the shape of a specialty truck-conversion van having a rear truck-bed for storage and transport.
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Eley Timothy V.
Gerstein Milton S.
Hughes S. Thomas
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