Roof structure having meat rail hangers
AssigneeFreuhauf Corporation
InventorsRobert B. Schwartz, Frank J. Miller, Hem R. Vij
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Abstract
An insulated vehicle body, such as a refrigerated truck or trailer, has load carrying reinforcement beams in the roof structure with bottom slots accessible through openings in the ceiling skin to receive removable hangers that may be used to suspend meat rails or other articles from the roof structure.
Claims10
A roof structure for a vehicle having at least two spaced apart sidewalls, defining an interior space therebetween, each of which has a top ledge, comprising:
- a longitudinally extending Z-shaped rail, one leg of which extends outwardly over said top ledge, the other leg of which extends inwardly of the sidewall, a plurality of spaced apart transverse beams each having a top flange, the end of which is fastened to rail inwardly extending leg of said Z-shaped rail, whereby said beam top flanges lie in a plane below the sidewall top ledges, said transverse beams each having oppositely extending spaced apart bottom flanges forming the bottom wall of a chamber having an access slot formed by the space between the flanges and spaced apart upwardly facing shoulders formed by the top face of said oppositely extending flanges, said access slot having spaced apart enlargements of generally predetermined cross section, individual hangers in said individual enlargements, said hangers having a shank portion of a width greater than that of said slot, a head portion of a width less than said slot, and a bottom portion outwardly of said slot having a load attachment surface thereof, whereby the roof structure can be pre-assembled and lowered onto the top ledge.
A roof structure for containers having sidewalls each of which have a top generally channel shaped rail with upper and lower outstanding legs connected by a web having an inside generally vertical face, comprising:
- a pair of spaced apart opposite hand generally Z-shaped stringers having their top horizontal legs extending outwardly to sit on the upper legs of the sidewall rails and with their lower horizontal legs extending inwardly toward each other, spaced apart transverse beams having top and bottom flanges and a web therebetween extending between said Z-shaped stringers with opposite ends of their top flanges being secured to the respective lower horizontal legs of said stringers, a roof skin having opposite side edges resting on top of said top horizontal legs of said Z-shaped stringers, and insulation means between said transverse beams and said roof skin to support said roof skin, and whereby the roof structure can be preassembled and lowered onto the upper legs of the sidewall rails to be secured thereto.
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