Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Camper
Patent
1986-07-14
1988-03-08
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Camper
296 26, B62D 6306
Patent
active
047295953
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to mobile homes by which is meant a structure which will provide habitable areas but which is supported on wheels allowing it to be towed from place to place. Often the term caravan is used for such equipment but mobile homes are larger and more sophisticated than the equipment which is commonly called by the name caravan.
The modern mobile home usually includes internal divisions to provide living areas connected by doorways. Often a mobile home is large enough to include separate bathing, bed and living rooms.
Mobile homes as made hitherto have been limited as to internal configuration because government regulations limit the width of a vehicle that can be towed under normal road conditions. Vehicles in excess of the regulation width are not registered for regular road usage. For the above reasons mobile homes have tended to be narrow compared to their length.
Many parking estates catering for towed mobile homes provide connections for water and electrical power and often waste water connections. Many of the parking estates have been in use for many years and when laid out did not make allowance for mobile homes of the size now used. Accordingly, the owners of many of the latest large mobile homes are excluded from desirable parking estates.
It has however been a feature of nearly all parking estates to provide alongside the area allocated to the mobile home another area on which a tent-like annex to the mobile home was erected. Whilst this provided storage space it was not suitable as a living area during very hot or wet weather.
The present applicants have developed a mobile home which takes advantage of the conventional parking estate arrangement by utilizing both the allocated mobile home position and the annex position for parts of a mobile home which can change configuration between a towing configuration and a living configuration.
Broadly, the present invention provides a mobile home having two habitable parts which when in a first configuration with the parts end to end allow the mobile home to be towed and which when in a second configuration where the parts are side by side provide two intercommunicating rooms; said mobile home comprising a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame which when in a first configuration provide an elongated rigid frame with said mobile home parts respectively located over the sub-frames, hinge means enabling one of said home parts to be moved relative to the other of said home parts to bring normally aligned first sides of those parts into face to face relationship, first releasable locking means engagable when said first sides of the mobile home parts are in alignment so as to retain them in that configuration and second releasable locking means engagable when said first sides are in face to face relationship so as to retain them in that configuration, doorways in said first sides which are aligned when said sides are in face to face relationship, wheels on the sub-frame below said other home part and a tow bar on said one sub-frame adapted to be coupled to a towing vehicle.
Two presently preferred forms of the mobile home according to the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic side elevation of a first form of towing frame, the cladding and its supporting framework and interior fittings of the mobile home not being shown in order to facilitate explanation,
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the towing frame as shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic plan view showing the two part mobile home undergoing a conversion to the configuration adopted for stationary use and where one of the said parts is supported on a frame different from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 and
FIG. 4 is a view showing a conversion of the assembly of FIG. 2 to the configuration adopted for stationary use.
In the drawings the mobile home is comprised basically of a first perimeter or sub-frame 1 and a second perimeter or sub-frame 2 located end to end with uprights or posts 3 and 4 on the sub-frame 1 located respe
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Barber Arthur B.
Loberg John
Olson Carol L.
Reeves Robert B.
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