DRIVER CAB OF TRUCKS

• US 3,836,191 A
• Filed: 07/06/1972
• Issued: 09/17/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans Gotz
• Original Assignee: Hans Gotz
• Inventors: Gotz, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Paperner, Leslie J.
• Application Number:
  US05/269,434
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 296/1S,28C,91 105/2R,2A
• US Class Current: 296/190.01
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/07 having water drainage or guide means integral with roof structure
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/168 Mud guards for utility vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 33/06 Drivers' cabs overhead guards, e.g. against loads falling down B60R21/11; roll-over protection B60R21/13
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 35/001 For commercial vehicles or tractor-trailer combinations, e.g. caravans

Abstract

A driver cab of trucks which has preferably a substantially cubic base shape and is equipped with air guide channels that extend from the front end wall of the vehicle on the inside of its body to the side walls and discharge thereat; rain ledges are provided which extend at least within the area of the approximately vertically extending front edges of the driver cab up to approximately the lower edges thereof.

Claims

1. A driver cab of trucks which includes a front end wall and side walls, a bumper and which is equipped with air-guide channel means extending from the front end wall of the driver cab on the inside of its body to the lateral walls thereof and discharge thereat, characterized in that rain ledge means are provided which extend at least within the area of the essentially vertically extending front edges of the driver cab to approximately the lower edge of the driver cab, said driver cab having an essentially cubic base shape, and said rain ledge means extend in the lower area thereof to the rear of the bumper.

2. A driver cab according to claim 1, characterized in that the front edges of the rain ledge means are disposed approximately in the plane of the windshield.

3. A driver cab according to claim 1, characterized in that the front edges of the rain ledge means are disposed approximately in the plane of the front end wall.

4. A driver cab according to claim 1, characterized in that one rain ledge means each is also arranged at approximately vertically extending rear edges of the driver cab.

5. A driver cab according to claim 4, characterized in that the front edges of the rain ledge means are disposed approximately in the plane of the windshield.

6. A driver cab according to claim 4, characterized in that the front edges of the rain ledge means are disposed approximately in the plane of the front end wall.

7. A vehicle having a front end wall, side walls, and a bumper, and including means for reducing the soiling of the side walls of the vehicle, said means comprising:

air intake means provided on said front end wall, air discharge means provided on respective side walls, air channel means extending into the body of the vehicle for communicating said air intake means with said air discharge means, and vertically extending means provided on respective sides of the front end wall between said air intake means and said air discharge means for dirEcting soiled water away from the side walls of the vehicle, said vertically extending means including rain ledges extending substantially along the entire height of the front end wall, the lower end of said rain ledges is disposed to the rear of said bumper.

8. A vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the vehicle is provided with a windshield and said rain ledges are disposed approximately in the plane of said windshield.

9. A vehicle according to claim 8, wherein said rain ledges are disposed approximately in the plane of the front end wall.

10. A vehicle according to claim 9, wherein additional vertically extending means are provided at the rear of each of the side walls.

11. A vehicle according to claim 10, wherein said additional vertically extending means include rain ledges disposed at the rear edges of said side walls.