Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Auxiliary article compartments
Patent
1997-12-23
2000-01-18
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Auxiliary article compartments
296 371, 224401, 224281, B60R 500, B60R 700, B60N 312
Patent
active
060151773
ABSTRACT:
A vehicular storage unit transit system (20) is provided for joining a storage unit (32) to a vehicle (30) possessing a cargo area (28) having a forward end (38), an access end (42), a pair of opposing sidewalls (46), and a floor (50) with a pair of wheelwells (56) protruding thereabove between the sidewalls (46). A pair of transit assemblies (22) couple the storage unit (32) to a pair of guidance assemblies (24). A first section (76) of each guidance assembly (24) sustains the storage unit (32) in a first position (36) proximate the forward end (38) and in a first attitude (54) substantially parallel to the floor (50). A second section (82) of each guidance assembly (24) sustains the storage unit (32) in a second position (40) proximate the access end (42) and in a second attitude (66) oblique to the floor (50).
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Coletta Lori L.
Gresham Lowell W.
Meschkow Jordan M.
Pape Joseph D.
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