US 4,378,856 AGranted

Passageway for truck cab and sleeper unit

AssigneeDouble Eagle Industries, Inc.

InventorRay S. Miller

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Abstract

An arrangement including a passageway connection of the type for use in interconnecting the interior of a vehicle driver's cab and the interior of a sleeper unit mounted behind the cab comprising an outer accordian seal and an inner boot member. The outer accordian seal is mounted surrounding an external side of openings in the front and rear walls respectively, of a sleeper unit and driver's cab so as to provide a detachable water tight seal, while the inner boot member provides sound and temperature insulation as well as an attractive smooth appearance, and also coacting with a detachable end of the outer accordian seal so as to retain same in its assembled condition. The outer accordian seal also acts to protect the inner boot member which might otherwise be destroyed by exposure to the environment, truck washing equipment, and the like. When the arrangement includes a sleeper unit mounted behind a driver's cab of the "cab-over" type the passageway connection construction finds particular utility with regard to problems occurring in such an environment due to relative movements between the driver's cab and sleeper unit.

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Dependent claims

An arrangement including a passageway connection for interconnecting the interior of a vehicle driver's cab, of a cab-over engine tractor having a driver's cab carried by a frame and upwardly swingable for providing engine access, and the interior of a sleeper unit mounted to said frame separately from and behind said cab, comprising:

(a) an outer accordian seal mountable perimetically continuously surrounding an external side of an opening in a wall of said sleeper unit and a facing opening in an exterior wall of said cab at respective opposite ends thereof, said accordian seal being fastened at one end to said sleeper unit and at the other end to said cab, the mounting of at least one of said ends of the accordian seal being by an easily demountable fastening means;
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(b) an inner boot member mountable about an inner side of said openings at respective opposite ends thereof, in a manner estending from the inner side of the opening in the wall of the sleeper unit, through said outer accordian seal and through the opening in the facing wall of the cab, to the inner side thereof, said inner boot being fastened at one end to said sleeper unit and at the other end to said cab, the mounting of at least one of the ends of the boot member being by an easily demountable fastening means.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.