Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Passenger bus body
Patent
1995-11-15
1997-10-21
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Passenger bus body
296 241, 414921, B62D 4702
Patent
active
056788835
ABSTRACT:
A motor coach designed generally for highway travel has a passenger compartment between sides of the coach and forwardly of the rear wall of the coach and defined above a raised floor of the coach. Underneath the floor is provided an engine compartment behind the rear wheels of the coach and luggage compartment forward of the rear wheels. A lavatory compartment is located at the junction between the rear wall and one side wall and immediately forwardly of the lavatory compartment is provided a floor area on which the rear seats at that side of the coach can be moved forwardly to a stored position to form an open area of the coach aligned with a wheel chair lift mounted in the engine compartment and arranged to lift a passenger from the ground onto the floor of the coach into the area forwardly of the lavatory compartment. The lavatory compartment is modified by a double door arrangement so that the doorway at the front of the lavatory compartment can be partly opened for ambulatory passengers or fully opened for the wheelchair passenger on the floor area immediately forward of the lavatory compartment. A curtain is provided to enclose the lavatory compartment and the floor area for privacy of the wheelchair passenger when the doors are fully opened.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1991535 (1935-02-01), Austin
patent: 3813836 (1974-06-01), Dielman
patent: 4884767 (1989-12-01), Shibata
patent: 5398352 (1995-03-01), Kordelin
KOS B.V. Brochure -4 pages.
Bittner Ronald B.
Cook John
Williams Gordon
Battison Adrian D.
Motor Coach Industries Limited
Pedder Dennis H.
Thrift Murray E.
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