Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1985-10-03
1987-06-02
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
296168, 296 378, 292 7, B60R 500, B60R 904
Patent
active
046697730
ABSTRACT:
A storage pod is fixedly mounted externally on the roof of a vehicle in alignment with a roof opening framed by peripheral molding in which a ceiling closure panel, is seated in its upper position. The closure panel is suspended from the top of the storage pod by lazy long linkages for vertical displacement against spring bias to a lowered position maintaining the panel level within the vehicle enclosure. The ceiling closure panel is releasably locked in its upper position seated in the peripheral molding and acts as a loading shelf when unlocked.
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Foster Glenn B.
Reeves Robert B.
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