Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1982-04-12
1984-01-03
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
296 372, 296 3716, 224 4212, 224 422, B62D 4310
Patent
active
044239009
ABSTRACT:
A spare-tire storage arrangement of an automotive vehicle, comprising a tire-storage pan portion forming part of the floor panel structure of the vehicle body and downwardly sunk from the upper face of the floor panel structure, the tire-storage pan portion having a bottom wall and a side wall and being formed with a concavity which is open upwardly and which is surrounded by the side wall, the tire-storage pan portion being internally sized to be suitable for having a regular-sized spare tire received on the inner surface of the side wall at least at a plurality of points of the outer perimeter of the tread portion of the tire; a receptacle member externally sized to fit the inner surface of the side wall of the tire-storage pan portion, the receptacle member having an upper face located above the upper face of the bottom wall of the tire-storage pan portion at a level equal to the difference between the depth of the concavity in the tire-storage pan portion and the width of a temporary-use spare tire.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2471730 (1949-05-01), Doerr
patent: 2518342 (1950-08-01), Lim
patent: 2660348 (1953-11-01), Muller
patent: 3642296 (1972-02-01), Froumajon
Sugimoto Yoji
Tomioka Hirotaka
Nissan Motor Company Limited
Song Robert R.
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