Mobile multi-functional shelter unit

• US 8,484,908 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2010
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 564581 Alberta Ltd., Haul-All Equipment Ltd.
• Original Assignee: One 4 Haul Trans4Mer Ltd.
• Inventors: Hache, Alcide
• Primary Examiner(s): KWIECINSKI, RYAN D
• Application Number:
  US12/849,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20110120026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• Field of Search: 52/64, 52/66, 52/67, 52/68, 52/69, 52/791, 52/795, 521/43, 296/165, 296/171, 296/175, 296/26.01, 296/26.02, 296/26.03, 296/26.04, 296/26.05, 296/26.12, 296/26.13, 137/234.6
• US Class Current: 52/143
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/14 the object being a workshop for servicing, for maintenance, or for carrying workmen during work lifting devices for movable platforms or cabins for workmen B66F11/04
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/34305 telescopic
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3802 With vehicle guide or support, e.g., service station

Abstract

A mobile multi-functional shelter unit, for use as a general working area or for storing and maintaining heavy machinery. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit includes a central structure that has a deployed state and a non-deployed state as well as means for translating from the deployed state to the non-deployed state. The central structure has a base section, a central floor mounted on top of the base section, track means for raising a vehicle from a ground surface onto and off of the central floor. The central structure supports a raisable roof assembly and a lateral pullout assembly.

Claims

1. A mobile multi-functional shelter unit comprising:

a central structure, said central structure comprising;

a base section comprising;

first and second opposite longitudinal sides;

first and second opposite extremity ends;

meeting points between each opposite longitudinal sides and each adjacent extremity end defined as lower meeting points; and

a central floor mounted on top of the base section;

a frame section mounted on said base section comprising;

a bottom portion comprising;

bars having a top end and a bottom end vertically mounted from the bottom end to each lower meeting point defining opposite longitudinal side sections of the frame and opposite front and back sections of the frame; and

a top portion comprising;

upright beams mounted longitudinally to the top ends of said bars forming a support mount;

a raisable roof assembly mounted on the support mount and comprising;

beams raisably mounted to the support mount for supporting translation of the roof assembly from a lowered position to an elevated extended position;

a roof section mounted on top of said beams comprising;

opposite long sides forming opposite sidewalls comprising an upper section and a lower section;

opposite short sides comprising an upper section and a lower section; and

a roof panel mounted onto the upper section of the sidewalls and the upper section of the short sides;

a roof deployment system engaging said sidewalls and said short sides to concurrently elevate together translating the roof assembly between the lowered position and the elevated extended position; and

at least one door assembly with guides on each opposite lower section of at least one of the short sides of the roof section, said door assembly comprising;

a door moveably mounted on the roof assembly; and

a door positioning adjustment system for positioning the door between an up position and a down position,

wherein, in the down position, the door is in contact with a corresponding opposite extremity end of the base section; and

a pullout assembly expandedly mounted on pullout slider beams affixed to each opposite longitudinal side of the base section of the central structure, said pullout assembly comprising a pullout assembly deployment system for translating the pullout assembly between a retracted state, positioned inside said central structure, and an expanded state projecting from said central structure.

2. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 1, further comprising an ascending ramp supported on the first opposite extremity end of said base section, said ascending ramp being adapted to raise a client vehicle from a ground surface onto said central floor at the first opposite extremity end of said base section.

3. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 2, further comprising a descending ramp supported on the second opposite extremity end of said base section, said descending ramp being adapted to lower the client vehicle from the central floor to the ground surface at the second opposite extremity end of said base section.

4. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 3, wherein the ascending ramp, the base section and the descending ramp form an integral rail assembly supporting the vehicle during a displacement of the client vehicle through the shelter unit.

5. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 4, further comprising a power system for powering said central structure.

6. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 4, wherein the central floor comprises at least one aperture and the shelter unit further comprises a reservoir positioned under the central floor for receiving materials traversing the central floor through the at least one aperture.

7. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 4, further comprising an outrigger system for supporting the pullout assembly in the expanded state with respect to a ground surface.

8. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 1, further comprising a power system for powering said central structure.

9. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 8, wherein the shelter unit further comprises a powered vehicle for providing displacement of the central structure, the power system is mounted on a wheeled trailer, the central structure further comprises front and rear vehicle attachment interfaces, and the central structure is suspendable through said attachment interfaces between the powered vehicle and the wheeled trailer.

10. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 8, wherein the central floor comprises at least one aperture and the shelter unit further comprises a reservoir positioned under the central floor for receiving materials traversing the central floor through the at least one aperture.

11. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 10, wherein the shelter unit further comprises a powered vehicle for providing displacement of the central structure, the power system is mounted on a wheeled trailer, the central structure further comprises front and rear vehicle attachment interfaces, and the central structure is suspendable through said attachment interfaces between the powered vehicle and the wheeled trailer.

12. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 1, wherein the door is a sectional door sized to close openings formed at an end of the shelter unit when the roof assembly is positioned at both the lowered position and the elevated extended position.

13. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 1, wherein the central floor comprises at least one aperture and the shelter unit further comprises a reservoir positioned under the central floor for receiving materials traversing the central floor through the at least one aperture.

14. The mobile multi-functional shelter unit of claim 1, further comprising an outrigger system for supporting the pullout assembly in the expanded state with respect to a ground surface.

15. A mobile multi-functional shelter unit comprising:

a central structure, said central structure comprising;

a base section comprising;

first and second opposite longitudinal sides;

first and second opposite extremity ends;

meeting points between each opposite longitudinal sides and each adjacent extremity end defined as lower meeting points; and

a central floor mounted on top of the base section;

a frame section mounted on said base section comprising;

a bottom portion comprising;

bars having a top end and a bottom end vertically mounted from the bottom end to each lower meeting point defining opposite longitudinal side sections of the frame and opposite front and back sections of the frame; and

a top portion comprising;

upright beams mounted longitudinally to the top ends of said bars forming a support mount;

a raisable roof assembly mounted on the support mount and comprising;

beams raisably mounted to the support mount for supporting translation of the roof assembly from a lowered position to an elevated extended position;

a roof section mounted on top of said beams comprising;

opposite long sides forming opposite sidewalls comprising an upper section and a lower section;

opposite short sides comprising an upper section and a lower section; and

a roof panel mounted onto the upper section of the sidewalls and the upper section of the short sides; and

a roof deployment system engaging said sidewalls and said short sides to concurrently elevate together translating the roof assembly between the lowered position and the elevated extended position; and

front and rear vehicle attachment interfaces;

a pullout assembly expandedly mounted on pullout slider beams affixed to each opposite longitudinal side of the base section of the central structure, said pullout assembly comprising a pullout assembly deployment system for translating the pullout assembly between a retracted state, positioned inside said central structure, and an expanded structure projecting from said central structure;

a power system for powering said central structure; and

a powered vehicle for providing displacement of the central structure, the power system being mounted on a wheeled trailer and the central structure being suspendable through said front and rear vehicle attachment interfaces between the powered vehicle and the wheeled trailer.