Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Enclosed compartment
Patent
1994-03-17
1996-06-25
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Enclosed compartment
1603681, B62D 3304
Patent
active
055293638
ABSTRACT:
In an automotive vehicle having a first compartment for a vehicle operator and a second compartment disposed behind the first compartment having at least one of a rear door and a side door, the second compartment carrying equipment accessible from the at least one of these rear door and the side door, the equipment including a heat exchanger and a front panel having an upper portion containing certain selected ones of predetermined controls, gauges, an inlet and predetermined outlets and a lower portion containing others of the selected ones of the predetermined controls, the gauges, the inlet and the predetermined outlets, a thermal draft guard to protect the equipment from outside cold air drafts and to retain heat from the equipment in the vehicle comprising a sheet of flexible material; a first arrangement to secure the sheet in an opening of the at least one of the rear door and the side door; a plurality of transparent windows disposed in the sheet, certain ones of the windows being in registry with the upper portion of the front panel and others of the windows being in registry with the lower portion of the front panel, and a second arrangement associated with each of the plurality of windows to enable independent opening of each of the plurality of windows to enable selected access to the controls, the input and the outputs.
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Hill Alfred C.
Pape Joseph D.
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