Industrial van with increased cargo-carrying capacity

• US 5,441,324 A
• Filed: 03/13/1995
• Issued: 08/15/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gold, Peter
• Original Assignee: Gold, Peter
• Inventors: Gold, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): PAPE, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US08/402,857
• Time in Patent Office: 155 Days
• Field of Search: 296/26, 296/50, 296/165, 296/146.8, 296/152, 108/44
• US Class Current: 296/26.11
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/00 Vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading, consolidating the load, or unloading vehicles for carrying harvested crops with means for self-loading or self-unloading A01D90/00; peculiar to refuse collecting-vehicles B65F; loading or unloading vehicles by means not incorporated therein B65G

Abstract

Improvements for increasing the cargo-carrying capacity of a van of a type having a body with right and left pivotally hinged doors comprising a door-bracing panel for supporting additional cargo operatively disposed to hold open the right and left doors in spaced apart relation extending rearwardly of the body and an additional tail light on a cooperating edge of each of the doors in facing relation to an oncoming motorist to permit safe operation of the van while allowing the transport of additional cargo on the platform between the open doors.

Claims

1. Improvements for increasing the cargo-carrying capacity of a van of a type having a body with right and left pivotally hinged doors and tail lights displayed to an oncoming motorist located outwardly of a hinge axis of said right and left doors illuminated by a battery of said van, said improvements comprising door-bracing means operatively disposed to hold open said right and left doors in spaced apart relation extending rearwardly of said body, said spaced apart open positions of said doors being of an extent inadvertently masking the display of said tail lights to an oncoming motorist, a component of said door-bracing means consisting of a weight-supporting platform horizontally oriented in spanning relation between said braced-apart doors, an additional tail light on a cooperating edge of each of said doors in facing relation to an oncoming motorist, and circuit means connected from a battery of said van effective to illuminate said additional tail lights, whereby an illuminated mode of said additional tail lights contributes to safe operation of said van while allowing the transport of additional cargo on said platform between said open doors.