Off-highway truck body floor design
OwnerLeRoy G. Hagenbuchinventor
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Abstract
A truck body floor includes a truck body floor frame and a floor plate attached to and supported by the truck body floor frame. The truck body floor frame includes two frame rails extending along a longitudinal length of the truck body floor, and a plurality of bolster structures attached to both of the two frame rails and extending across a width of the truck body floor. The plurality of bolster structures includes at least one layered bolster structure having an inner bolster and an outer bolster that is at least partially flush with and attached to the inner bolster.
Claims19
A truck body floor construction comprising:
- a truck body floor structure including:
- two frame rails extending along a longitudinal length of the truck body floor, and
- a plurality of bolster structures attached to both of the two frame rails and extending across a width of the truck body floor, the plurality of bolster structures including at least one layered bolster structure including an inner bolster and an outer bolster that is at least partially flush with and attached to the inner bolster, each of the inner bolster and outer bolster extending through both frame rails;
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- a floor plate that is attached to and supported by the truck body floor structure.
A truck body comprising:
- a truck body floor including:
- two frame rails extending along a longitudinal length of the truck body floor,
- a plurality of bolster structures attached to both of the two frame rails and extending across a width of the truck body floor, the plurality of bolster structures including at least one layered bolster structure including an inner bolster and an outer bolster that is at least partially flush with and attached to the inner bolster;
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- a floor plate that is attached to and supported by the truck body floor frame;
- a front wall extending upward from a front of the truck body floor;
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- two side walls extending upward from opposing sides of the truck body floor and adjacent to opposing sides of the front wall.
A method of providing a truck body floor, the method comprising:
- constructing a central truck body floor segment at a first location, the central truck body floor segment including:
- two frame rails extending in a longitudinal direction of the central truck body floor segment,
- a plurality of bolster structure central segments, at least one of the plurality of bolster structure central segments including an inner bolster and an outer bolster that is at least partially flush with and attached to the inner bolster, and
- a central floor plate section supported by the frame rails and bolster structure central segments;
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- sending the central truck body floor segment to a second location for assembling the truck body floor.
A truck body floor construction comprising:
- a truck body floor including:
- two frame rails extending along a longitudinal length of the truck body floor, and
- a plurality of bolster structures extending through both of the two frame rails and across a width of the truck body floor, the plurality of bolster structures including at least one bolster structure having a thicker central portion at a center of the truck body floor that has a larger thickness than two outer portions at respective lateral sides of the truck body floor, the thicker central portion extending through both frame rails;
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- a floor plate that is attached to and supported by the truck body floor frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.