Vehicle trailer integral cross tubes
AssigneeMac Trailer Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorDenis Gosselin
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Abstract
A suspension system for use with a vehicle having a frame, two rails longitudinally spaced and secured to the vehicle frame, a hanger bracket depending from each rail, a beam pivotally mounted to each hanger bracket, an axle secured to and intermediate the beams, a support plate secured to each rail, a rail plate secured to each rail, and a bracket plate secured to each bracket. The suspension system includes two cross tubes, each with one end secured to a rail plate and the opposite end secured to the opposing side bracket plate. The system also includes a horizontal tube secured between each bracket plate.
Claims20
A vehicle trailer comprising:
- a first and second rail;
- a first beam pivotally mounted to a first hanger bracket depending from the first rail;
- a second beam pivotally mounted to a second hanger bracket depending from the second rail;
- a first cross tube having first and second spaced apart ends, and wherein the first end is secured to the first rail and the second end is secured to the second hanger bracket;
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- a second cross tube having first and second spaced apart ends, and wherein the first end is secured to the second rail and the second end is secured to the first hanger bracket.
A suspension system comprising:
- a first hanger bracket;
- a first beam pivotally mounted to a first hanger bracket;
- a second hanger bracket;
- a second beam pivotally mounted to a second hanger bracket;
- a first cross tube adapted to extend intermediate the trailer and the second hanger bracket;
- and
- a second cross tube adapted to extend intermediate the trailer and the first hanger bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.