Truck or truck tractor windshield air ram arrangement

• US 4,235,298 A
• Filed: 02/28/1979
• Issued: 11/25/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Freightliner Corporation
• Original Assignee: Freightliner Corporation
• Inventors: Liethen, Thomas R., Sackett, Roger W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, Charles A.
• Application Number:
  US06/015,764
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 180/54 A, 180/69 R, 296/1 S, 296/91, 98/2.07, 98/2.16, 98/2.17, 98/2.19, 123/198 E, 55/385 B
• US Class Current: 180/68.3
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/02 concerning intake
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/06 using structural parts of the vehicle as ducts, e.g. frame parts

Abstract

A truck or truck tractor having an opening between the base of its windshield and the rear end of its hood. Air pressure in this area drives air through a moisture tray and a collector trap to a conduit to an air cleaner leading to a turbocharger. Rain, snow and/or ice in the air is removed into the moisture tray and the collector trap, and the air cleaner has a moisture filter therein to remove any, slight residue.

Claims

1. In a truck or truck tractor,

a cab having a windshield,

a hood positioned forwardly of the windshield and spaced from the lower portion of the windshield to form an air entrance slot,

a trough mounted below the slot,

wipers mounted in said trough on either side of the centerline thereof,

said trough having a raised central portion formed with a pocket,

engine means having an air intake,

and filter means connecting the pocket to the air intake of the engine means.

2. The truck or truck tractor of claim 1 including a moisture trap opening upwardly into the pocket.

3. The truck or truck tractor of claim 2 including check valve means connected to a drain of the moisture trap.

4. The truck or truck tractor of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein one side of the trough is secured to a firewall of the cab, the other side of the trough having a sealing strip engaged by the hood when the hood is closed.

5. The truck or truck tractor of claim 4 wherein the trough has a bottom sloping away from the trap and provided with side drain means.