Track system for customized vehicles and trailers
AssigneeJ.T. Custom Works Inc.
InventorsTerrance E. Minix, James G. Fisher
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Abstract
A conversion system for a vehicle or trailer especially for vans, having a track system comprising rails secured to the floor and sidewalls of the vehicle for customizing the vehicle with modular components which can be positioned and secured within the vehicle by fasteners that releasably secure the components to a portion of the track system. Each modular component has a corresponding track along at least one of the bottom or side of the modular component for matingly connecting to a portion of one of the rails.
Claims10
A conversion system releasably securing modular components in a vehicle, the vehicle having a length extending from a front bumper to a rear bumper and having a pair of interior sidewalls and a floor therebetween and said vehicle having at least two through apertures in at least one of the sidewalls and the floor, said conversion system comprising:
- a track system having at least one rail located along at least one of the floor and sidewall of the vehicle, said rail having at least two apertures positioned along said rail for alignment with the at least two through apertures in the at least one of the sidewalls and the floor;
- each modular component having at least one track secured to the modular component and said track having at least one aperture therethrough positioned to matingly align to an aperture on the rail and an aperture in the at least one of the sidewalls and the floor;
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- fastening means for disposition in the aligned apertures in the rail, track, and at least one of the sidewalls and the floor for releasably securing the track of the modular component to the rail and to at least one of the floor and sidewalls.
A conversion system for releasably securing modular furniture into a vehicle having an interior floor and sidewalls, said conversion system comprising:
- a track system with at least one rail connected to at least one of the interior floor and sidewalls, said rail having at least two apertures therethrough;
- the modular furniture having at least one track portion secured thereon, said track portion having through apertures positioned on the at least one track portion for aligning with the at least two apertures through the rail, wherein at least one of the apertures in the rail and in the track portion is threaded;
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- a threaded screw for disposition in the aligned apertures in the track portion and the rail for releasably securing the modular furniture to the rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.