Trailer frame
AssigneeNorco Industries, Inc.
InventorBernard F. Garceau
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Abstract
A trailer frame including an axle section having two spaced longitudinal frame members connected by at least one cross member, the longitudinal frame members each having a first end and a second end; a rear section attachable to the axle section; and a dimple assemble joining the axle section to the rear section, the dimple assembly including a dimple pattern formed on each frame member of the axle assembly, the dimple pattern on the axle assembly defining a first dimple axis, and a dimple pattern formed on one end of the rear section and nestable within the dimple pattern formed on the axle section, the dimple pattern on the rear section defining a second dimple axis offset relative to the first dimple axis to create a camber between the axle section and the rear section when the first dimple is nested within the second dimple pattern.
Claims16
A trailer frame comprising:
- a first frame section having at least one frame member, wherein the first frame section is an axle section and the at least one frame member of the first frame section includes an upstanding sidewall and at least one wall extending laterally outward from the sidewall;
- a second frame section having at least one frame member, wherein the second frame section is a rearward section, wherein the at least one frame member of the second frame section includes an upstanding sidewall and at least one wall extending laterally outward from the sidewall,
- wherein the first frame section is attachable to the second frame section with a portion of the second frame section overlapping a portion of the first frame section at a joint;
- wherein the at least one wall of the first frame section terminates before the joint to form an exposed edge of the sidewall of the first frame section at the joint;
- a reinforcing assembly having a first portion attached to the first frame section and a second portion extending adjacent to the exposed edge at the joint, wherein the at least one wall of the second frame section at the joint extends over the exposed edge of the sidewall of the first frame section and is attached to the second portion of the reinforcing assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.