Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1972-06-12
1977-12-27
Paperner, L. J.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
52483, 296 29, B62D 3304
Patent
active
040651681
ABSTRACT:
A trailer van construction with side walls which provide the trailer van with greater storage space. The trailer van includes a floor, upstanding end walls, a roof and opposite side walls. Each side wall includes a generally rectangular, elongate panel having generally parallel upper and lower edges, and a top framing structure. The framing structure includes a top rail having a depending plate portion and at least one laterally extending flange for supporting the roof. The end walls have different heights and the plate portion has a vertical dimension greater than the difference in height between the end walls. A capping member is assembled over the upper edge of the panel and secured to the outer surface of the plate portion along a line which is nonparallel to the top edge of the top rail such that the upper margin of each side wall is defined by a wedge-shaped section of the plate portion.
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Paperner L. J.
Pines Trailer Corporation
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