Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Patent
1997-10-14
1998-07-21
Hoge, Gary C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
2961469, 296188, B60J 504
Patent
active
057825238
ABSTRACT:
A reinforced door assembly for closing a door opening in a side of a body of a pick-up truck includes a first door pivotally connected to the body between an open and closed position and a second door pivotally connected to the body between an open position and a closed position. The reinforced door assembly also includes a rocker at a bottom portion of the door opening and a roof rail at a top portion of the door opening. The second door includes a vertical reinforcement assembly extending upwardly to the roof rail and downwardly to the rocker to overlap a floor of the pick-up truck to resist inward movement of the door from the closed position with respect to the body of the pick-up truck.
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Heldt Gary Eugene
Marshall Ryan Spencer
Rush David
Siedlecki Tadeusz Joseph
Ford Global Technologies Inc.
Hoge Gary C.
May, Esq. Roger L.
Stock, Esq. Daniel M.
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