US 5,314,205 AGranted

Skeletal chassis for motor-home roadway vehicles

OwnerHerbert C. Glesmanninventor

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Abstract

For the skeletal chassis of very-lengthily longitudinally extending motor-home roadway vehicles, the chassis' major and pre-eminent weight-bearing capability has traditionally been furnished by two or more lengthily longitudinally extending, parallel structural members. Departing from such prior art, the very-lengthily longitudinally extending skeletal chassis herein utilizes a single, longitudinally elongate central-axis tubular member as the major and pre-eminent weight-bearing structural member. Such reliance upon a single only central-axial structural member has numerous advantages for motor-home vehicles including, inter alia, providing a torsionally rigid underlying chassis therefor, capability for accommodating longitudinally consecutive and sidewardly-open storage compartments therealong, and for providing therealong a conduit for power and utility lines.

Skeletal chassis for motor-home roadway vehicles and vehicularly directionally longitudinally comprising along a horizontal and directionally longitudinal central-axis thereof, three zones, namely:

(A) a front-end operational-zone for the vehicle driver;
(B) a central occupants'-zone comprising:
(Bi) three directionally longitudinally extending members therealong including a tubular forward-member along said central-axis and that provides the primary and pre-eminent weight-bearing capability for said chassis, and further including a leftward sideward-member and a rightward sideward-member together flanking said central-axis and defining a transverse width for said chassis occupants'-zone;
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(Bii) a directionally transversely extending framework delineating a plurality of directionally longitudinally consecutive pairs of transversely aligned storage compartments flanking said central-axis and each compartment being provided with an upright entrance-opening located immediately below respective sideward-members, said grid-like framework at each pair of compartments including:
a plurality of directionally transversely extending horizontal rib members located at and attached to substantially regularly-spaced longitudinal increments of said tubular forward-member, each such transverse rib being substantially perpendicular to said forward-member and having a left-end located adjacent said leftward sideward-member and also having a right-end located adjacent to said rightward sideward-member;
horizontal base means located below and extending in both transverse directions from said tubular forward-member;
upright left-leg means located adjacent to, extending downwardly from the leftward sideward-member, and being connected to a leftward portion of said horizontal base means;
and upright right-leg means located adjacent to, extending downwardly from the rightward sideward-member, and being connected to a rightward portion of said horizontal base means;
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(C) a rearward powertrain-zone located adjacently rearwardly of said central occupants'-zone.

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Application

07/914,476Filed 15 Jul 1992 · continuation in part

Priority

29 May 1990

Granted

24 May 1994

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Classification6 codes

B60P 3/32
Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects: comprising living accommodation for people, e.g. caravans,…
F28D 1/0408
With tubular conduits: multi-circuit heat exchangers, e.g. integrating different heat exchange sections in the same unit or heat exchangers for…
F28F 2280/105
Movable elements, e.g. being pivotable: with hinged connections
B60P
Vehicles adapted for load transportation or to transport, to carry, or to

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