Patents Assigned to Motor Coach Industries Ltd.
  • Patent number: 5803326
    Abstract: A tour guide cabinet for a coach comprises a cabinet body having a rear portion resting upon a seat frame of the coach and a front portion having a bottom surface resting upon the floor of the coach forwardly of the seat. The front and rear portions each defining an upper surface spaced upwardly of the seat and arranged to define at least one storage compartment therein for receiving tour guide materials. The cabinet body has a width so as to overlie only one half of a double seat leaving the other part for the tour guide. A shelf extends from the cabinet body outwardly to one side. The front portion includes a storage cabinet with a drawer underneath the bottom surface of the rear portion and forwardly of the seat. The bottom surface of the rear portion includes a clamp to engage onto the seat frame with the cushion removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Motor Coach Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: John W. Krieger, Sandy S. Friesen
  • Patent number: 5683320
    Abstract: In an engine assembly including an engine block carried by flexible mounting members on an assembly frame, the engine accessory such as the alternator and compressor are carried on the frame rather than on the engine block itself. The accessories are belt driven from a main drive pulley of the engine. In order to accommodate rotational movement of the engine on the flexible mountings, the accessories are pivotally mounted on the frame and are connected to the engine block by a tensioning assembly which lies generally parallel to a line joining the rotational axes of the drive pulley of the engine and the driven pulley of the accessory. The pivot mounting of the accessory is located underneath the accessory to one side of the line joining the axes and such that the weight of the accessory is communicated through the pivot mounting to the frame rather than to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Motor Coach Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Friesen, Edward G. Hohenberg