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Dump body

  • US 5,662,374 A
  • Filed: 08/15/1996
  • Issued: 09/02/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A dump body comprising a pair of side walls, each side wall with a lower longitudinal hollow reinforcement, a front wall and a floor forming an integral unit supported on a pair of longitudinally extending support beams for mounting the dump body on a frame of a dump truck or trailer, said floor having a top surface and an underneath surface and first, second and third longitudinal channels on the top surface extending to a rear edge of the floor with complementary ridges on the underneath surface, said first channel extending in a wide, shallow V substantially between the reinforcement of a first of said pair of side walls to an adjacent one of said longitudinally extending support beams, said second channel extending in a wide, shallow V substantially between said longitudinally extending support beams and said third channel extending in a wide, shallow V substantially between the reinforcement of a second of said pair of side walls to an adjacent one of said longitudinally extending support beams, said channels being nominally one inch deep, said floor supported proximate its rear edge by an apron having a top surface that follows a contour of the ridges on the underneath surface of the floor at its rear edge, said floor unsupported between the front wall and the apron and unsupported between the reinforcement of the first of said pair of side walls and the adjacent one of said longitudinally extending support beams and unsupported between the reinforcement of the second of said pair of side walls and the adjacent one of said longitudinally extending support beams.

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