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US 12,410,002 B2Granted
Expandable vehicle container
Assignee1332006 Alberta Inc.
InventorJohn Vreugdenhil
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Abstract
An expandable storage container comprises a floor and two longitudinal walls, each wall comprising at least one arm, with the wall connected through the arms to the floor so as to provide lateral extension of the longitudinal walls away from the floor. In certain embodiments, the arms are slideably or hingedly connected to the floor to provide lateral extension.
Claims17
An expandable storage container comprising:
- fixed frame elements, a front end and two longitudinal walls, the fixed frame elements including a floor;
- the longitudinal walls each hingedly connected to one or more arms;
- the front end comprising an end door;
- each of the one or more arms are hingedly connected to one of the longitudinal walls at a first hinge axis and are connected to the fixed frame elements at a second hinge axis, in which the first hinge axis and second hinge axis for each of the one or more arms are parallel so as to provide lateral extension of the longitudinal walls away from the floor;
- and in which a first one of the longitudinal walls together with a second one of the longitudinal walls and the end door together define a single opening such that the lateral extension of the first longitudinal wall away from the floor expands the single opening.
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An expandable storage container comprising:
- a floor, a front end, a rear end, and first and second side walls, the storage container having a length defined by a spacing of the front end and rear end, the length defining a depth axis, and a width defined by a spacing of the first and second side walls, the width defining a horizontal axis, the length being larger than the width;
- the front end comprising an end door;
- the first side wall comprising a first side door hingedly connected to the floor via a first floor side door hinge between the floor and a floor swing arm, and a second floor side door hinge between the floor swing arm and the first side door, and in which the first floor side door hinge defines a first floor hinge axis and the second floor side door hinge defines a second floor hinge axis parallel to the first floor hinge axis;
- the first side door and the end door meeting when the expandable storage container is in a closed configuration, and when the expandable storage container is in an open configuration, the first side door and the end door opening to, with the second side wall, collectively define a single opening, the expandable storage container having a first width in the closed configuration and a second width in the open configuration, wherein the first width is smaller than the second width.
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