Dump body side wall construction

• US 3,306,654 A
• Filed: 09/24/1964
• Issued: 02/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John B. Curcio
• Original Assignee: John B. Curcio
• Inventors: Curcio, John B.
• Application Number:
  US04/398,982
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• US Class Current: 296/183.1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 33/023 Sideboard or tailgate structures vehicle side panels in general B62D25/02

Claims

1. A LOAD BODY CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF STATIONARILY INTERCONNECTED ELONGATED TRANSVERSELY SPACED METAL BRACE MEMBERS, A METAL BOTTOM WALL DISPOSED OVER SAID BRACE MEMBERS AND SECURED THERETO, SAID BOTTOM WALL INCLUDING OPPOSITE SIDE MARGINAL EDGE PORTIONS BETWEEN WHICH SAID BRACE MEMBERS EXTEND, UPSTANDING SIDE WALL PANELS EXTENDING ALONG AND HAVING THEIR LOWER EDGE PORTIONS SECURED TO SAID OPPOSITE SIDE MARGINAL EDGE PORTIONS INWARDLY OF THE MARGINAL EDGES THEREOF, AT LEAST THE LOWER PORTIONS OF SAID SIDE WALL PANELS BEING SPACED INWARDLY OF VERTICAL PLANES CONTAINING SAID MARGINAL EDGES, AN ELONGATED STRUCTURAL MEMBER EXTENDING ALONG EACH OF SAID MARGINAL EDGE PORTIONS, SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBERS EACH INCLUDING AN UPSTANDING FLANGE PORTION DISPOSED IMMEDIATELY OUTWARDLY OF AND OPPOSING THE CORRESPONDING ENDS OF SAID BRACE MEMBERS AND SAID MARGINAL EDGES OF SAID BOTTOM WALL TERMINATING AT ITS LOWER EDGE PORTION IN AN INTURNED LOWER FLANGE UNDERLYING AND SECURED TO SAID CORRESPONDING ENDS AND TERMINATING AT ITS UPPER EDGE PORTION IN AN INWARDLY AND UPWARDLY INCLINED UPPER FLANGE WHOSE FREE EDGE INTERSECTS WITH AND IS WELDED TO THE CORRESPONDING SIDE WALL PANEL ABOVE SAID BOTTOM WALL, SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBERS CLOSELY EMBRACING THE CORRESPONDING MARGINAL EDGES OF SAID BOTTOM WALL AND THE ENDS OF SAID BRACE MEMBERS.