Tarpaulin superstructure
AssigneeEuropean Trailer Systems GmbH
InventorsMarkus Leukers, Mathias Ludwig
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Abstract
A tarpaulin superstructure is provided for use with a movable substructure, such as a truck, a trailer, a semitrailer, a railway wagon, a dump truck, or a container. The tarpaulin superstructure includes a top frame to which a tarpaulin made of weather-resistant material can be attached, where the top frame has multiple struts which can be moved along one or more guides, and where the end of the top frame has an end runner which can be raised to open the superstructure and lowered to close the superstructure. A tarpaulin superstructure is also provided where the end runner is not lifted by the airstream, as an air deflection part is arranged at an end of the end runner so that the airstream is converted into a force in the closing direction of the end runner.
Claims19
A tarpaulin superstructure for a movable substructure, comprising a top frame to which a tarpaulin made of weather-resistant material can be attached,
- wherein the top frame comprises a plurality of struts which can be moved along at least one guide,
- wherein the end of the top frame comprises an end runner which can be raised to open the superstructure and lowered to close the superstructure, and
- wherein an air deflection part is arranged at an end of the end runner, by means of which air deflection part an airstream is converted into a force in the closing direction of the end runner.
A movable substructure, comprising
- a tarpaulin superstructure having a top frame to which a tarpaulin made of weather-resistant material can be attached,
- wherein the end of the top frame comprises an end runner which can be raised to open the superstructure and lowered to close the superstructure, and
- wherein an air deflection part is arranged at an end of the end runner, such that the air deflection part converts an airstream generated by a driving movement of the substructure into a force in the closing direction of the end runner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.