Expedition vehicle
OwnerMichael Van Peltinventor
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Abstract
A motorized expedition vehicle has a truck cab, an engine and riding gear package, and a cabin. The cabin can serve any as a living, camping or office area. The wherein the cabin is expandible and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes. To do this, the cabin has an openable rectangular box structure. Namely, there is a rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion, a rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion, and one more rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections. A crawlspace hatchway is formed between the cabin and cab.
Claims20
A motorized expedition vehicle comprising:
- a truck cab,
- an engine and riding gear package, and
- a cabin comprising a living enclosure;
- wherein the cabin is expandible and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes, and has a vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure comprising:
- a rigid rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion,
- a rigid rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion, and
- zero or more rigid rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections.
A motorized expedition vehicle comprising:
- a truck cab,
- an engine and riding gear package, and
- a cabin comprising a living enclosure;
- wherein the cabin is expandible and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes, and has a vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure comprising at least:
- a rigid rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion, and
- a rigid rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion;
- and
- wherein either the cab or the cabin have the greatest width for said expedition vehicle, and either the cab or the cabin have the greatest height for said expedition vehicle in the collapsed state, and said expedition vehicle has a length;
- such that the greatest height for said expedition vehicle in the collapsed state, the greatest width for said expedition vehicle and the length therefor too are all sized for the purpose of fitting said motorized expedition vehicle in a close-fitting fit in a standard international cargo-container and be shipped abroad while collapsed into the collapsed state, in order to efficiently occupy the space provided by such standard international cargo-container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.