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Convertible vehicle

  • US 4,322,108 A
  • Filed: 05/05/1980
  • Issued: 03/30/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A vehicle convertible from a van to a camper and vice versa, said vehicle having a wheeled frame supporting a van body having a driver'"'"'s compartment at its forward end and passenger or cargo space rearwardly of said compartment, said body being cut vertically aft of said compartment and horizontally adjacent said frame to form a separable body section;

  • separable means cooperable between said section and the remainder of said body for separably coupling said section to the remainder of said body;

    a wheeled camper unit having a body adapted to overlie said frame when said separable body section is removed from said frame;

    a first set of coupling devices carried by said frame, a first group of the coupling devices of said first set being located adjacent said compartment and a second group thereof being located rearwardly of said compartment;

    a second set of coupling devices carried by said camper and corresponding in number to the number of coupling devices of said first set and being located in positions to register with the coupling devices of said first set when said camper is in a position to be coupled to said frame;

    movable latch means carried by each coupling device of one of said sets and being movable into and out of locking engagement with the associated coupling device of the other of said sets;

    power driving means; and

    means connecting said driving means and the latch means of all of the coupling devices of said one of said sets for moving all of said latch means simultaneously into and out of said locking engagement, the coupling devices of one of said first or second groups registering in a vertical plane and the coupling drives of the other of said groups registering in a horizontal plane.

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