Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Trunk lids
Patent
1988-06-20
1989-08-22
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Trunk lids
60477, 414540, B62D 2510
Patent
active
048589810
ABSTRACT:
An attachment and method to implement loading of a vehicle having a hinged storage compartment closure member such as a trunk lid or hatchback on an automobile by utilizing the closure member as a lifting lever. The conventional hinged trunk lid or hatchback is formed with one or more hook or other material engaging members at the free end of the lid or hatchback remote from the conventional hinge mounting edge of the lid or hatchback. A piston-cylinder assembly having fixed capacity energy storing means in the form of a fixed charge fluid chamber and a variable capacity energy storing means in the form of a variable charge fluid chamber is positioned between the vehicle body and the lid or hatchback, and fluid from a fluid system is selectively directed to the variable charge fluid chamber in the cylinder to displace the piston against the trunk or hatchback lid to lift same, whereby any material engaged by the hook can be lifted to a position over the vehicle storage compartment. Alternatively, the piston-cylinder assembly may function to counterbalance the weight of the lid or hatchback when fluid is absent from the variable charge fluid chamber in the piston-cylinder assembly, allowing compressed gas in the closed fixed charge fluid chamber to act as a counterbalance for the lid.
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Fiddler Robert W.
Song Robert R.
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