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Side stiffening rail for a side dump body

  • US 6,488,340 B2
  • Filed: 04/05/2001
  • Issued: 12/03/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In combination:

  • a wheeled frame having a forward end, a rearward end, a first side and a second side;

    a side dump body movably mounted on said wheeled frame and having a rearward end, a forward end and an open upper end;

    said side dump body including a bottom wall having first and second sides, a forward end and a rearward end;

    a first side wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said first side of said bottom wall;

    a second side wall extending upwardly and outwardly from said second side of said bottom wall;

    a rear wall secured to and extending between said bottom wall, said first side wall and said second side wall;

    a front wall secured to and extending between said bottom wall, said first side wall and said second side wall;

    the upper ends of said first side wall, said second side wall, said front wall and said rear wall defining said open upper end of said side dump body;

    each of said first and second side walls having interior and exterior surfaces and an upper end;

    a first power cylinder having a base end pivotally secured to said wheeled frame intermediate the sides thereof forwardly of said body and a rod end operatively pivotally secured to said front wall of said body intermediate the sides thereof;

    a second power cylinder having a base end pivotally secured to said wheeled frame intermediate the sides thereof rearwardly of said body and a rod end operatively pivotally secured to said rear wall of said body intermediate the sides thereof;

    means for simultaneously selectively extending the rods of said first and second power cylinders whereby said body may dump material therein from at least one side of said body;

    each of said first and second side walls having a stiffening rail mounted on the exterior surface thereof adjacent the upper end thereof;

    each of said stiffening rails comprising an elongated plate which has been bent to define a first wall portion, having upper and lower ends, which extends downwardly from the respective side wall at an acute angle with respect to a plane of the respective side wall;

    a second wall portion, having upper and lower ends, which extends downwardly from said lower end of said first wall portion at an obtuse angle with respect thereto; and

    a third wall portion, having first and second ends, extending inwardly from said lower end of said second wall portion towards the respective side wall at an obtuse angle with respect to said second wall portion;

    said upper end of said first wall portion being welded to the respective side wall;

    said second end of said third wall portion being welded to the exterior surface of the respective side wall.

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