Vehicle tray

• US 9,108,558 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2011
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Austin Engineering Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Austin Engineering Company Limited
• Inventors: Hall, Jamie Vincent Clarke
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Kiran B
• Application Number:
  US13/817,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20130234468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• Field of Search: 296/183.2, 296/39.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/28 Tipping body constructions
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/286 Loading buckets

Abstract

A tray of a vehicle, the tray comprising a tray bed having a carrying surface for containment of a load, the tray bed comprising at least one panel defining at least a portion of the carrying surface, the at least one panel comprising a reinforced section. The invention also relates to a canopy of a tray of a vehicle, the canopy comprising a frame member adapted to receive a plate section defining a covering section for protecting a portion of the vehicle, the plate section comprising a reinforced plate section.

Claims

1. A vehicle tray having a floor and side walls defining a load carrying surface, the tray comprising a frame 16 and a single floor panel 52, the frame 16 comprising an upper frame 30 and a bottom frame 34 attached to the upper frame 30;

the upper frame 30 comprising a plurality of first side beams 28 and a front upper beam 26, the first side beams 28 extending longitudinally from the front upper beam 26 towards the rear portion of the tray;

the bottom frame 34 comprising a front wall portion 18 and a floor section 20,

the floor section 20 comprising central beams 38 and a second side beam 40 extending transversally from the central beams 38, the second beam comprising ends attached to the first side beams 28 of the upper frame 30,

wherein the second side beam 40 is spaced apart from the front wall portion 18 defining a void at each side of the central beams 38, each void extending between the front wall portion 18, the second side beam 40 and of first side beams 28; and

wherein the single floor panel 52 comprises a floor surface 54 and wing members 56 slideably received by the floor section for covering of the voids to define the floor and side walls to provide the load carrying surface of the tray.

2. A tray of a vehicle according to claim 1 wherein the single floor panel 52 comprises a reinforcements means 60.

3. A tray according to claim 2 wherein the reinforcement means 60 comprises corrugations.

4. A tray according to claim 2 wherein the reinforcement means 60 comprises ribbings.

5. A tray according to claim 1 wherein the wing members 56 of the panel extend from sides of the floor surface 54 in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to the floor surface 54.