Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1994-02-04
1996-10-01
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296166, 180 8912, B60P 332
Patent
active
055606733
ABSTRACT:
A truck cab and sleeper assembly is shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, a cab having no rear wall and a sleeper having no front wall are coupled together via bolts and a compressive seal. An internal rain gutter and an adhesive sealant are further provided to seal the interface between the cab and sleeper against moisture. The cab and sleeper may therefore be easily separated by cutting the adhesive sealant and unbolting the two structures. Because there are no walls between the cab and sleeper, access between the two is substantially unrestricted. The roof of both the cab and the sleeper slope upward in a rearward direction, thereby providing sufficient head room, together with the unrestricted access, to allow an occupant of the truck to comfortably transition frown a seated position in the cab to a standing position in the sleeper, and vice versa.
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