Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1995-03-20
1996-09-03
Bentley, Stephen C.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
B60P 300
Patent
active
H00015873
ABSTRACT:
A trailer for transporting an environmentally safe modular storage unit caining hazardous materials over the highways at speeds approaching about fifty five miles per hour. The trailer has a rectangular shaped frame and a hitch assembly extending longitudinally forward from front end of the rectangular shaped frame. The hitch assembly is coupled to a tow truck or other suitable vehicle to allow the trailer and the modular storage unit to be towed from a hazardous material site to a collection or storage site. The trailer is a tandem axle trailer equipped with electrical brakes and a lighting system. The underframe of the trailer includes a tandem axle wheel system which has four wheels and an oil lubricated hub and drums. A pair of leveling stanchions and a jack are provided to level, stabilize and balance the trailer and modular storage unit on driveways, inclined pavements, floors and other surfaces The rectangular shaped frame of the trailer also has positioned at each of its corners a fastmount with the fastmounts of the trailer being adapted to secure the modular storage unit to the trailer while the trailer is being towed over the highway or when the modular storage unit is being utilized at a collection or storage site.
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Van Valkenburgh Gary L.
Van Valkenburgh Norman S.
Bentley Stephen C.
Kalmbaugh David S.
Sliwka Melvin J.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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