Storage device for vehicle luggage compartment

• US 5,626,380 A
• Filed: 09/01/1995
• Issued: 05/06/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: General Motors Corporation (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Elson, Gerald L., Sanders, Barbara A., Hlavaty, David G.
• Primary Examiner(s): PAPE, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US08/522,717
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 296/37.1, 296/37.2, 296/37.3, 296/39.1, 296/37.8, 296/37.14, 296/37.16
• US Class Current: 296/39.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/02 in separate luggage compartment B60R7/005 takes precedence

Abstract

The luggage storage box is mounted within the automobile luggage compartment by first and second laterally spaced apart slide tracks which are positioned respectively on opposite sides of a spare tire storage recess in the floor of the luggage compartment. The storage box includes a floor with an opening therein to allow access to the spare tire storage recess. An access panel is hingedly mounted to the box to normally close the opening in the floor panel and can be selectively raised to an open position to permit unobstructed access to the spare tire storage recess without requiring removal of the storage box from the vehicle luggage compartment.

Claims

1. A storage device for a luggage compartment in a vehicle of the type having a spare tire stowage recess in the floor of the luggage compartment, comprising:

a storage box positioned within the luggage compartment, said box having a horizontal floor panel and a vertical upstanding front and side walls and remaining open at the top and at the rear to enable placement of luggage into the box;

first and second laterally spaced apart slide tracks positioned respectively on opposite sides of the spare tire stowage recess and mounting the box on the floor of the luggage compartment for fore and aft sliding movement;

an opening in the floor panel of the box to allow access to the spare tire stowage recess in the floor of the luggage compartment when the box is slid aft;

and a door panel hingedly mounted on the box to normally close the opening in the floor panel and being hingedly raised to an open position to provide access to the spare tire storage recess when the box is slid aft.