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US 10,207,672 B2Granted
Telescoping vehicle safety guard
AssigneePublic Transportation Safety International Corp.
InventorMark B. Barron
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Abstract
A safety guard for a vehicle, such as a school or transit bus, includes a skirt extending below a side body portion of the vehicle and between front and rear wheels along a side of the vehicle. The skirt functions to push individuals and other animate objects out of the path of the wheels for safety purposes, while being mounted for separate linear and arcuate movements relative to the body of the vehicle to protect the guard from damage upon abutting an inanimate object during operation of the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a body having at least one side panel;
- a pair of front steerable wheels spaced in a transverse direction of the body of the vehicle;
- at least one pair of transversely spaced rear wheels which are longitudinally spaced from the front steerable wheels;
- a door provided along the at least one side panel;
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- a guard piece in the form of a skirt extending below the body of the vehicle such that the guard piece extends longitudinally between the front and rear wheels of the vehicle, forward of the rear wheels and below the side panel of the vehicle such that the skirt is positioned to deflect an animate object from a path of at least one of the rear wheels by direct engagement with the guard piece in an operational position during movement of the vehicle so as to prevent the animate object from being run-over and crushed by the at least one of the rear wheels, said skirt being mounted to the body, by a plurality of connection assemblies arranged at various spaced locations between the front and rear wheels of the vehicle, said plurality of connection assemblies providing for both linear and arcuate movement of the skirt relative to the body upon engagement with an object, while also being biased to automatically re-shift back to the operational position.
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A safety guard assembly comprising:
- a guard piece in the form of a skirt configured to extend below a body of a vehicle such that the guard piece extends longitudinally between front and rear wheels of the vehicle, forward of the rear wheels and below a side panel of the vehicle such that the skirt is positioned to deflect an animate object from a path of at least one of the rear wheels by direct engagement with the guard piece in an operational position during movement of the vehicle so as to prevent the animate object from being run-over and crushed by the at least one of the rear wheels, said skirt being configured to be mounted to the body by a plurality of connection assemblies arranged at various spaced locations between the front and rear wheels of the vehicle, said plurality of connection assemblies providing for both linear and arcuate movement of the skirt relative to the body upon engagement with an object, while also being biased to automatically re-shift back to the operational position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.