Patents Assigned to Wheel Service Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 4126349
    Abstract: A truck body for a light truck including a frame structure attachable to the truck chassis including invertible joists with offset cantilever ends; truck body side walls each including a plurality of integral one piece molded plastic cabinet modules in tandem fore and aft arrangement with confronting end walls flush against each other and defining socket recesses to receive the offset cantilever ends of the joists; one of the modules on each side having a wheel well asymmetrically located and interchangeable from side to side to accommodate trucks of different cab-to-axle spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignees: Chas. Olson & Sons, Wheel Service Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Eldrid W. Nelson, Thomas L. Auth
  • Patent number: 4114947
    Abstract: A detachable mounting for a seating device in a passenger type motor bus wherein an anchoring track is mounted on the floor and the base of the seating device has feet with heads which extend into the guideway of the track and are retained against upward movement by flanges in the track, and a locking pin also on the base urged downwardly into the guideway of the track and against the bottom of the track to pull the heads of the feet upwardly against the flanges and securely anchor the seating device against any movement relative to the floor of the bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignees: Chas. Olson & Sons, Wheel Service Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Eldrid W. Nelson
  • Patent number: 4093303
    Abstract: Apparatus retaining wheelchairs in stationary position in a bus type motor vehicle including retaining arms extending along and around the wheelchair wheels and gripping the wheelchair frame at the front, the arms being extendible and retractable, and a releasable chair clamping jaw, and being swingable upwardly to an out of the way position, the arm being articulated to swing the jaw transversely toward and away from the chair, the articulation in the arm providing locking for the extension and retraction of the arm, slide rails securing the retaining arms to the vehicle frame, the slide rails being wall mounted or floor mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: Chas. Olson & Sons and Wheel Service Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Eldrid W. Nelson