Rear quarter panel forming integral cab extender

Details Rear quarter panel forming integral cab extender Rear quarter panel forming integral cab extender

1988-06-10

1989-11-28

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

With distinct wind deflector

B62D 3500

Patent

active

048833070

ABSTRACT:
The integral cab side extender or fairing for a tractor-trailer provides reduction of aerodynamic drag. The cab extender is a unitary structure including a rear-quarter-panel-forming portion having a rear wall, a side wall and a front wall. The side wall and rear wall of the rear-quarter-panel-forming portion form an integral fairing. The side wall has a sinuous, progressively rearwardly and laterally outwardly flared sidewall-forming surface and the rear wall has a rearwardly laterally outwardly flared rear wall-forming surface which converges with the flared sidewall-forming surface to form the fairing.
The method for mounting the rear-quarter-panel-forming cab extender to a cab of a tractor includes the steps of:

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