Torsional bumper

• US 3,210,110 A
• Filed: 02/08/1962
• Issued: 10/05/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George Chieger
• Original Assignee: George Chieger
• Inventors: GEORGE CHIEGER
• Application Number:
  US04/172,022
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• US Class Current: 293/118
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/483 with obstacle sensors of electric or electronic type
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/56 Fittings damping bouncing force in truck collisions, e.g. bumpers; Arrangements on high-riding vehicles, e.g. lorries, for preventing vehicles or objects from running thereunder

Claims

1. IN AN OVER-THE-ROAD VEHICLE HAVING A FRAME, A RESILIENTLY MOUNTED BUMPER COMPRISING A DOWNWARDLY DEPENDING UPWARDLY OPENING IMPACT-ACCEPTING MEMBER OF GENERALLY U-SHAPED CONFIGURATION DEFINED BY SPACED LEG PORTIONS AND AN INTERMEDIATE BIGHT PORTION, THE LEG PORTIONS OF SAID IMPACT MEMBER HAVING ALIGNED BEARINGS AT THE ENDS OPPOSITE THE BIGHT PORTION THEREOF, THE VEHICLE FRAME HAVING SPACED BEARINGS AXIALLY ALINGED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH THE BEARINGS ON THE ENDS OF SAID IMPACT MEMBER AND A TORSION BAR ROTATABLE ABOUT ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS FOR RESILIENTLY SUPPORTING SAID BUMPER FOR DEFLECTION RELATIVE TO THE FRAME OF THE VEHICLE, SAID TORSION BAR EXTENDING THROUGH SAID LEG AND FRAME BEARINGS AND HAVING ONE PORTION AFFIXED TO ONE OF THE LEG PORTIONS OF SAID IMPACT-ACCEPTING MEMBER AND ANOTHER PORTION AFFIXED TO THE VEHICLE FRAME.