PASSENGER COMPARTMENT

• US 3,730,583 A
• Filed: 05/21/1971
• Issued: 05/01/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Denny D. Colovas, John S. Logan, Richard R. Skruch
• Original Assignee: Denny D. Colovas, John S. Logan, Richard R. Skruch
• Inventors: Colovas, Denny D., Logan, John S., Skruch, Richard R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Betts, Kenneth H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pekar, John A.
• Application Number:
  US05/145,681
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: 296/64,155 105/329,341,344,345
• US Class Current: 296/64
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 47/003 convertible in order to modify the number of seats foldable compact cars B62D31/006; convertible from one use to a different one B60P3/42
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 47/02 for large numbers of passengers, e.g. omnibus

Abstract

An improved passenger compartment for a transportation vehicle having floor and ceiling structures is disclosed. A first pair of side walls are provided which are spaced equally from a first axis passing along the length of the passenger compartment. Each of the first side walls has an extensive and identical opening therethrough. The center of the opening in one of the first side walls is spaced a fixed distance on one side of a second axis passing across the width of the passenger compartment in a directing perpendicular to the first axis. The center of the opening in the other of the first side walls is spaced the same fixed distance on the other side of the second axis. A second pair of walls are provided for the vehicle. The walls of the second pair are spaced equally from but on opposite sides of the second axis. The walls of the second pair join opposite ends of the first pair of side walls thereby, with the floor and the ceiling structures, to define the passenger compartment.

Claims

1. An improved passenger compartment for a transportation vehicle having a floor and ceiling structures with a first, imaginary, vertical plane running along the length of the compartment to divide the same into identical halves and a second, imaginary, vertical plane perpendicular to said first vertical plane running across the width of the compartment to divide the same into identical halves, which passenger compartment comprises:

a first pair of identical wall structures, each of said first wall structures being arranged between the ceiling and the floor structures at equally spaced distances on opposite sides and in parallel relationship to said first vertical plane, each of said wall structures further having both a portion thereof with an opening therein of sufficient size to permit a passenger to pass therethrough and another, wall backing portion, said two portions of said first wall structure being identically constructed so that said first wall structures present identical locations of their said portions when viewed by a passenger in facing relationship thereto;

a second pair of identical wall structures arranged between the ceiling and the floor structures at equally spaced distances on opposite sides and in parallel relationship to said second vertical plane, said second pair of wall structures interconnecting the ends of said first pair of wall structures to define said passenger compartment side walls;

a pair of door structures, one such structure covering each of said openings in each of said first wall structures;

a first pair of identically constructed, passenger seat structures, each of said seat structures being identically located from said first and said second vertical planes against said wall backing portions of an associated one of said wall structures and in facing relationship to said opening in the other of said first wall structures; and

a second pair of identically constructed passenger seat structures, each of said second seat structures being identically located from said first and said second vertical planes near an associated one of said second wall structures.

2. The improved passenger compartment as defined in claim 1 wherein:

each of said first seat structures will seat three passengers.

3. The improved passenger compartment as defined in claim 2 wherein:

each of said second seat structures will seat three passengers.

4. The improved passenger compartment as defined in claim 2 wherein:

each of said openings in said first side wall structures is sufficiently large to permit two passengers to pass therethrough at the same time.

5. The improved passenger compartment as defined in claim 4 wherein:

said second seat structures are positioned at a greater distance from said second plane than said openings in said first side wall structures.