Slide-out assembly

• US 20070063525A1
• Filed: 09/15/2006
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Firestone Building Products Company LLC (Bridgestone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BFS Diversified Products LLC (Bridgestone Corporation)
• Inventors: Howells, Harvey
• Application Number:
  US11/521,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20070063525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/24.300
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/34 the living accommodation being expansible, collapsible or capable of rearrangement B60P3/38 takes precedence; tents supported at least partially by vehicles E04H15/06

Abstract

An expandable container includes a container body (10) having a side (14). The side (14) is provided with an aperture (12). An expansion device (20) is provided and moves relative to the aperture (12) as by a connection mechanism (16). The expansion device (20) includes a top side (44) and a longitudinal side (42) where at least a portion of the top side (44) and longitudinal side (42) are seamless.

Claims

11-1. The container of claim 1, where said top side and said longitudinal side are prepared by extruding a single, integral member.

13. A recreational vehicle comprising:

a vehicle body, where said vehicle body includes a side;

an aperture in said side of said vehicle body;

an expansion device including a frame and an external shell; and

a connection mechanism interrelating said vehicle body and said expansion device for movement relative to said aperture,

where said external shell includes a top side and a longitudinal side and where at least a portion of said top side and said longitudinal side are seamless between said longitudinal side and said top side.

14. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said external shell includes a bottom side, where said bottom and said longitudinal side of said external shell are seamless between said longitudinal side and said bottom side.

15. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said external shell includes a thermoplastic resin.

16. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said thermoplastic resin is characterized by a coefficient of linear thermal expansion of less than 2.5/in/in/°

C.

17. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where the thickness of said external shell is about 0.050 inches to about 0.200 inches.

18. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said external shell includes two lateral sides interposed between side top side and said bottom side, and where said lateral sides include a thermoplastic resin.

19. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said top side is positioned perpendicular to said longitudinal side.

21. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said top side and said longitudinal side are positioned to form an internal angle that is greater than 90 degrees.

22. The recreational vehicle of claim 21, where said internal angle is less than 105 degrees.

23. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said top side and said longitudinal side are prepared by extruding a single, integral member.

24. The recreational vehicle of claim 13, where said top side, said bottom side, and said longitudinal side are prepared by extruding a single, integral member.