Flush floor slide-out room support system
AssigneeActuant Corporation
InventorsRobert H. Schneider, Jeffrey N. Ashbeck
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Abstract
The outer side of a slide-out floor (20) is supported by the outer end of an inner rail member (40). The inner rail member (40), or at least a support wall thereof, is telescopically angled within an outer rail member (32) such that the angle increases as the inner rail member (40) is extended, so as to position the outer end of the slide-out floor (20) at an elevation that is substantially flush with the fixed floor (74) when the slide-out floor (20) is fully extended.
Claims6
In a flat floor slide-out assembly having a first floor, a second floor mounted so as to be movable with respect to said first floor between an extended position in which said second floor is a substantially flush extension of said first floor and a retracted position in which at least half of said second floor overlaps said first floor, a first support member mounted under said first floor, and a second support member telescopically mounted to said first support member and having an outer end mounted to said second floor so as to push or pull said second floor between said extended position and said retracted position, the improvement wherein a wall of said second support member on which said second support member is supported is at an outwardly and downwardly inclined angle relative to said first support member in said retracted position, said angle progressively increasing as said second floor is moved from said retracted position to said extended position.
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