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US 2009/0212596 A1Published application
Vehicle side fairing system
AssigneeAerofficient, LLC
InventorsJames Reiman, Peter Heppel, Kenneth Gilbert
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Abstract
A vehicle side fairing having a first fairing panel fixedly secured to the underside of a trailer box, and a second fairing panel slidably mounted to the first fairing panel. The second fairing panel is releasably secured to the wheel set so that the second fairing panel can be moved with an adjustment in the position of the wheel set.
Claims8
A side fairing mounted on a trailer, comprising:
- a trailer having a trailer box and a fore and aft positionally adjustable wheel set, the trailer when placed on a road surface defining a spatial gap forward of the wheel set between the bottom of the trailer and the road surface;
- a first fairing panel secured to the trailer box at a fixed position proximate to such gap;
- a second fairing panel fore and aft slidably mounted to the first fairing panel;
- the second fairing panel being releasably secured to the wheel set so that the second fairing panel can be moved with an adjustment in the position of the wheel set.
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A side fairing mounted on a trailer, comprising:
- a trailer having a trailer box and a fore and aft positionally adjustable wheel set, the trailer when placed on a road surface defining a spatial gap forward of the wheel set between the bottom of the trailer and the road surface;
- a first fairing panel secured to the trailer box at a fixed position proximate to such gap;
- a second fairing panel fore and aft slidably mounted to the first fairing panel;
- the second fairing panel being releasably secured to the wheel set so that the second fairing panel can be moved with an adjustment in the position of the wheel set;
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- a mechanical fastener that selectively joins and releases the second fairing panel and the wheel set so that the second fairing panel can be moved with or without an adjustment in the position of the wheel set.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.