Trailer with modular climate conditioned zones
OwnerFrancois THOUINinventor
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Abstract
A refrigeration body to be mounted to a chassis to obtain a climatized vehicle. The refrigeration body has an enclosure delimited by external surfaces; internal and walls dividing the enclosure into a plurality of sub-cargo volumes accessible through dedicated doors. The refrigeration body has a plurality of conditioning units mounted to at least one of the external surface, with at a first one of the plurality of conditioning units that is fluidly coupled to a first one of the sub-cargo volumes, and a second one of the plurality of conditioning units that is fluidly coupled to a second one of the sub-cargo volumes.
Claims20
A cargo container of a road vehicle, the vehicle comprising a driver side and a curb side, the cargo container comprising:
- a front wall and a rear wall with a longitudinal axis spanning therebetween, two side walls with a transversal axis spanning therebetween;
- a floor having a plurality of floor surfaces adapted to be unleveled relative to one another, wherein the front wall, the rear wall, the side walls, a ceiling and the floor are enclosing a cargo volume;
- a longitudinal interior wall;
- a plurality of rotatable partition walls, the cargo volume being dividable with the longitudinal interior wall and the rotatable partition walls into a plurality of room enclosures;
- at least one of the room enclosures having a raising floor mechanism mounted therein, each of the raising floor mechanism being adapted to adjust a floor surface height thereof controllable between a low position and a raised position,
- the cargo volume being adapted to adopt:
- a) a leveled floor configuration wherein the cargo volume provides a leveled loading surface when the floor surfaces of all the room enclosures are leveled, and
- b) an unleveled floor configuration wherein the floor surface of at least one of the room enclosures is unleveled relative to the floor surface of at least another one of the room enclosures;
- at least one rear door providing a longitudinal access to the cargo volume, the at least one rear door providing access to the cargo volume with a floor access leveled with the floor surfaces of the room enclosures when the cargo volume is in the leveled floor configuration;
- and
- a plurality of side doors providing transversal accesses to the cargo volume, each of the side doors providing a transversal access from outside the cargo volume to at least one of the room enclosures;
- wherein, the floor surfaces in the raised position provide the cargo volume with an expanded leveled floor surface, while the floor surfaces in the low position provide the room enclosures with an increased volume for storing cargo.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.