Front tower structure for a mining vehicle
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsSamuel J. Arul, Steven J. Fujan
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Abstract
A front tower on a truck body for use with a mining vehicle. The truck body includes a truck bed including a canopy and a front exterior wall. The front exterior wall includes at least one front tower. The front tower includes two longitudinal plates spanning the front exterior wall, at least one gusset plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates, and a landing plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates. The landing plates are configured to transfer load stress from the bed to a frame of a mining vehicle.
Claims20
A truck body for use with a mining vehicle comprising:
- a canopy and a front exterior wall, wherein the front exterior wall comprises a front tower, wherein the front tower comprises:
- two or more longitudinal plates spanning the front exterior wall;
- a gusset plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates;
- and
- a landing plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates, wherein the landing plate is configured to transfer load stress from the truck body to a frame of a mining vehicle.
A front tower for use on a mining vehicle comprising
- two or more longitudinal plates configured to span a front exterior wall of a mining vehicle body;
- a gusset plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates;
- and
- an landing plate transverse and connected to the longitudinal plates, wherein the landing plate is configured to transfer load stress from a truck body to a chassis of the mining vehicle.
A mining truck comprising:
- a truck frame;
- a truck body comprising a front exterior wall and a canopy;
- the front exterior wall comprising a front tower configured to transfer load stress from the truck body to the truck frame;
- wherein the front tower comprises:
- parallel longitudinal plates spanning the front exterior wall from a base of the truck body to the canopy;
- at least one gusset plate transverse to the longitudinal plates;
- and
- a landing plate transverse to the longitudinal plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.