Spare wheel arrangement in motor cars

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1983-12-14

1985-08-06

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Auxiliary article compartments

280 5R, 224 4212, B60P 322

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045331693

ABSTRACT:
There is described a spare wheel arrangement for a motor car, in which the spare wheel and the fuel tank are disposed adjacent one another below the rear loading area in a partly overlapping manner and in which the spare wheel is disposed in a depression in the floor and the fuel tank is disposed below the floor by means of support straps, the spare wheel having a tendency to rise at its forward end from the depression in the case of a rear-end collision.
The front end of the depression 6 is covered by a capture plate 12 which, in the case of a rear end collision at relatively low speeds, acts in conjunction with the rim 10 of the spare wheel 7 to brace the floor against excessive deformation which would endanger the fuel tank.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3595335 (1971-07-01), Wessells, III et al.
patent: 4060270 (1977-11-01), Croissant
patent: 4423900 (1984-01-01), Sugimoto et al.

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