Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – With distinct wind deflector
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-01
2001-05-01
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
With distinct wind deflector
C296S180100, C296S180400
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224141
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts and more particularly pertains to a new trailer side wind deflecting system for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts is known in the prior art. More specifically, systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 3,904,236; U.S. Pat. No. 4,966,407; U.S. Pat. No. 5,579,794; U.S. Pat. No. 3,054,151; U.S. Pat. No. 4,897,970; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,949,527.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new trailer side wind deflecting system. The inventive device includes top and bottom panels each having inner and outer faces, top and bottom edges. The bottom edge of the top panel is coupled to the top edge of the bottom panel. The top edge of the top panel is designed for mounting to an associated adjacent side wall of a trailer adjacent a top wall of the trailer such that the top and bottom panels depend therefrom. The top and bottom panels lie in planes extending at an obtuse angle to one another to define an outer vertex along the coupled edges of the panels so that the top and bottom panels form a wedge for outwardly extending from the associated adjacent side wall of the trailer to deflect gusts of wind blowing against the side wall in upwards and downwards directions.
In these respects, the trailer side wind deflecting system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new trailer side wind deflecting system construction wherein the same can be utilized for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new trailer side wind deflecting system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises top and bottom panels each having inner and outer faces, top and bottom edges. The bottom edge of the top panel is coupled to the top edge of the bottom panel. The top edge of the top panel is designed for mounting to an associated adjacent side wall of a trailer adjacent a top wall of the trailer such that the top and bottom panels depend therefrom. The top and bottom panels lie in planes extending at an obtuse angle to one another to define an outer vertex along the coupled edges of the panels so that the top and bottom panels form a wedge for outwardly extending from the associated adjacent side wall of the trailer to deflect gusts of wind blowing against the side wall in upwards and downwards directions.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new trailer side wind deflecting system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art systems for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such trailer side wind deflecting system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system for preventing trailers from overturning from strong side wind gusts.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new trailer side wind deflecting system which includes top and bottom panels each having inner and outer faces, top and bottom edges. The bottom edge of the top panel is coupled to the top edge of the bottom panel. The top edge of the top panel is designed for mounting to an associated adjacent side wall of a trailer adj
Coletta Lori L.
Pape Joseph D.
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