Covered vehicle container bodies
AssigneeGeorge Neville Truck Equipment Limited
InventorGeorge E. Neville
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Abstract
A covered vehicle container body defining end walls and a flexible cover as an uncovering device, including a dependent framework supported by the end walls over which the flexible cover extends and is supported. The framework has a lower free end and an upper pivoted portion, pivotally mounted on the end walls, plus operating means for upwardly pivotally moving the framework about the pivot axis of the pivoted portion. Accordingly, the free end effects folding of the flexible cover and uncovering of one side of the body.
Claims10
A covered vehicle container body having end walls and having at least one side of the body covered by a flexible cover, and an uncovering device including a dependent framework and over which the flexible cover extends and is supported, the framework having a lower, free end and an upper pivoted portion, pivotally mounted on the body, said framework being generally of rectangular form and comprising a bar at the free end of the framework, said upper pivoted portion comprising an elongate member pivotally mounted in stationary manner on said body, and a plurality of struts between said elongate member and the bar and interconnecting said elongate member and bar, wherein said body has a longitudinal roof beam positioned on the longitudinal median plane of said container body, said flexible cover being secured to the beam, and a further of said framework and a further of said covers are provided at the opposite side of said body;
- and operating means for upwardly pivotally moving the framework about the pivot axis of said pivoted portion, so that the free end effects folding of the flexible container and uncovering said one side of the body.
A covered vehicle container body having end walls, a longitudinal roof member secured to the end walls, a flexible cover secured to the roof member and covering at least one side of the body, and an uncovering device including a dependent framework extending between the end walls and over which the flexible cover extends and is supported, the framework having a lower free end and an upper pivoted end, means pivotally mounting said upper pivoted end at a fixed location relative to the end walls, said free end extending part way down said side of the body in the covered position and being pivotally moving about said upper pivoted end to extend substantially to the longitundinal median plane of the body in the uncovered position, whereby said free end effects folding of the flexible cover and uncovering of said one side of the body, and operating means for effecting said pivotal movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.