Abstract:
A trailer for receiving and hauling bulk material. The trailer includes an elongated bed with an external skeletal frame. Along with the skeletal frame, two truss members are provided on opposite longitudinal sides of the bed. Each truss includes downwardly converging truss members that are affixed at opposite upper ends to the horizontal top rail of the skeletal frame. The truss members converge downwardly to ends that meet at points below the bottom wall of the bed. These ends are affixed to one another and are situated at the approximate longitudinal center of the trailer. Upright web members extend between the top rails and truss members at longitudinally spaced locations along the trailer. A transverse tie member is also provided extending between the joined lower ends of the truss members across the width of the trailer below the bottom wall of the bed.
Abstract:
A truck, especially a large capacity vehicle or tractor semi-trailer combination including a motor-steering unit, which essentially includes the motor, the transmission, the axles, the wheels, and where applicable, a fifth wheel for a semi-trailer; a payload carrier or semi-trailer; and at least one vehicle control cab. The vehicle control cab and other additional structures respectively form separate units which are arranged on top of one another in any desired order and are firmly interconnected. The lowermost respective unit may be mounted on the motor-steering unit.
Abstract:
A truck with a driver cab that includes two separate structural units, of which one is equipped as independently spring-supported operating cell essentially only with seating elements or seating and berthing elements as well as with control and operating elements while the other unit forms as covering and/or support unit a mounting unit for the operating cell and shields the operating cell on the rear side or on the rear and bottom side thereof.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to the configuration and method of fabrication of the forward underbody of a semitrailer. A lower plate of the underbody has two inverted channels welded thereto. A kingpin extends downwardly through an aperture in the lower plate and is welded in position between the two inverted channels. The kingpin and the channels are braced by laterally spaced gussets which are welded in position thereto. A top plate with angular edge flanges fills the space between the inverted channels, the edge engaging sloping corners of the channels and forming a right angle therwith. Continuous welds secure the top plate to the channels which are below the top surface thereof. The assembly thus provided is extremely strong, light in weight, and capable of assembly with conventional welding equipment and without need of repositioning the several elements during the assembly and welding process. Critical welds are spaced from the high stress areas of the secured elements.
Abstract:
A rigid cover mountable to the top of a trailer vehicle with means provided for the lifting of the cover from the vehicle and means provided for securing the cover to the vehicle. The cover includes a plurality of interconnected rigid panels which rest atop the peripherally extending upper edge portion of the trailer vehicle. Interlocking channels are fixedly secured to the adjacent ends of the panels extending across the vehicle preventing rain water from entering the enclosure formed by the panels. A plurality of brackets are hingedly mounted to the panels with each bracket having a cable fixedly mounted thereto. The cables allow for the lifting of the panels when the brackets are swung to their upward position whereas the cables secure the panels to the vehicle when the brackets are swung to their downward position. A plurality of pins are fixedly mounted to the brackets and extend into the sidewalls of the vehicle when the brackets are in the downward position preventing relative motion between the panels and vehicle. Fasteners are provided for locking the brackets in the downward position.
Abstract:
Retractable side walls for a flat bed semitrailer comprising panels which can be mechanically raised to form the trailer walls, as needed, and subsequently retracted to convert the trailer back into a flat bed vehicle. Each of these panels is flexible enough for rolling around a core drum, to which one end is affixed, and there is a separate core drum for each of the panels rotatably mounted in a housing situated at an edge of the truck bed. This housing has a space for in-and-out movement of the panel to permit lowering and raising of the truck walls. Within the housing, there is a mechanism for causing the panel to unwind from its core drum, or wind onto the drum, when driven by an air impact wrench. Anchored in pockets around the outer edge of the trailer bed are a number of relatively flat upright stakes. The stakes are positioned so that there is one in the space between each pair of adjacent panels. The edges of the stakes have grooves of V-shaped cross section, and the panels have male edges of V-shaped cross section to slide matingly in the grooves of the stakes. The panels are thus guided upwardly, between the stakes, as they are unwound from the core drums, to form the trailer walls.
Abstract:
An arrangement of stakes for supporting panels on a flatbed truck. Hollow stakes with tapered bottom ends seatingly fit into pocket brackets mounted to the periphery of the bed. The stakes have triangular shaped cross sections with the corners of the triangle being thickened. Side panels are mounted to the bed being supportingly received by stakes with T-shaped brackets. Corner stakes with parallel first and second walls define vertically extending grooves which receive the edges of end panels. A third wall integral and perpendicular to the second wall defines a vertically extending groove for receiving the edge of a side panel. Tarpaulin rods are secured to the hollow top ends of the stakes.
Abstract:
A floor assembly for use in a trailer or other such vehicle, which utilizes various cables and hoses, is disclosed herein and generally comprises first and second laterally spaced floor sections, each of which is constructed of a plurality of interfitting standard elongated shiplap boards, and an elongated housing formed to interfit between and to the floor sections for defining a channel which is adapted to receive the aforementioned cables.