Portable motor-vehicle workshop

• US 6,651,392 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2002
• Issued: 11/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Riri Privatstiftung
• Original Assignee: Riri Privatstiftung
• Inventors: Ritzal, Harald
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Green, Christy M.
• Application Number:
  US10/107,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20020139057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 52/361, 52/791, 521/43, 52/362, 280/400, 280/423.1, 280/504, 296/24.1, 296/26, 296/57.1, 296/61, 296/181, 296/17, 296/168, 296/158
• US Class Current: 52/36.2
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 5/06 Pits or building structures for inspection or services

Abstract

A portable motor-vehicle workshop has a plurality of rigid rectangular I-beam reinforced floor panels, bolts securing the floor panels together to form a planar horizontal floor, and a plurality of portals each having a pair of spaced vertical lower posts having lower ends secured to the floor, respective angled connector beams extending inward and upward at acute angles from upper ends of the lower posts, respective upper posts extending vertically from upper ends of the angled beams, and a horizontal connector beam extending between upper ends of the respective upper posts. A plurality of panels are bolted to the posts and beams of the portals and enclose a space above the floor. A lift on the floor can raise a vehicle up between the upper posts.

Claims

1. A portable motor-vehicle work shop comprising:

a plurality of rigid rectangular I-beam reinforced floor panels at least some of which are formed with an upwardly open trough;

respective grates covering the troughs;

a conduit system connected to the trough;

an oil skimmer outside the workshop connected to the conduit system;

bolts securing the floor panels together to form a planar horizontal floor;

a plurality of portals each having

a pair of spaced vertical lower posts having lower ends secured to the floor,

respective angled connector beams extending inward and upward at acute angles from upper ends of the lower posts,

respective upper posts extending vertically from upper ends of the angled beams, and

a horizontal connector beam extending between upper ends of the respective upper posts;

a plurality of panels bolted to the posts and beams of the portals and enclosing a space above the floor; and

a lift on the floor capable of raising a vehicle up between the upper posts.

2. The portable motor-vehicle workshop defined in claim 1, further comprising end walls at least one of which is provided with a roll-up vehicle door.

3. The portable motor-vehicle workshop defined in claim 2 wherein the roll-up door has a width equal at most to a horizontal spacing between the upper posts of the portals.

4. The portable motor-vehicle workshop defined in claim 1 wherein each floor panel comprises:

an annular inwardly open C-section channel;

a plurality of parallel I-beams fixed to the channel;

a wooden plate secured to the I-beams within the channel; and

a wear surface on an outside face of the wooden plate.