Underslung trailer cargo container system

• US 5,310,303 A
• Filed: 06/26/1992
• Issued: 05/10/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gaylord N. Betts
• Original Assignee: Gaylord N. Betts
• Inventors: Betts, Gaylord N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bucci, David A.
• Application Number:
  US07/905,034
• Time in Patent Office: 683 Days
• Field of Search: 414/540, 414/541, 414/544, 414/498, 414/495, 414/341, 414/343, 414/347, 414/462, 414/466, 414/525.1, 414/458, 414/459, 414/497, 414/501, 224/42.32, 224/42.41, 224/42.43, 224/42.44, 224/42.46 R, 296/37.1, 296/37.6
• US Class Current: 414/462
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/00 Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects ambulances or other vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00; hearses A61G21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles A62C27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles B65F3/00, B65F7/00; snow-removing vehicles E01H; armoured or armed vehicles F41H7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles F41H11/16
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 27/06 readily releasable

Abstract

An underslung cargo container system in which a cargo container is removably secured to the exterior bottom of the trailer of a truck.

Claims

1. An underslung trailer container system adapted to fit on a trailer underside including

a cargo container having a top and a bottom;

means on the trailer underside for receiving and guiding the top of said container to position the container on the underside of the trailer;

means for lifting the container into engagement with said receiving and guide means, said lifting means including spaced hydraulic cylinders mounted to and extending downwardly from the underside of the trailer, said cylinders including a rod and an arm extending outwardly from said rod, said arms adapted to engage the bottom of the container to lift the container into place under the trailer and to lower the container for removal;

means for releasably securing the container to the underside of the trailer, and

an additional pair of hydraulic cylinders mounted underneath the trailer, the rods of said cylinders including means for moving the container laterally after it has been released and lowered.