Abstract: A safety bumper system for a high profile vehicle, such as a pick-up truck or sport utility vehicle. The system comprises of a pair of vertical members which are coupled to the frame of a high profile vehicle, proximate one of the bumpers. The members are coupled so that they extend downward sufficiently to contact a bumper of a conventional passenger vehicle in the event of a collision between the high profile vehicle and the passenger vehicle. Impact pads are positioned over the vertical members, and bumper covers may be positioned over the pads. The impact pads may slope outwardly and include a plurality of grooves, in order to assist in preventing a conventional passenger vehicle from sliding upwardly or downwardly along the safety bumper system upon impact with the high profile vehicle.

Abstract: A shopping cart has a wire basket, which comprises generally horizontal and generally vertical wires defining two side walls, defining a front wall, and defining multiple apertures in each of the side and front walls, and in which the front wall meets each of the side walls along a generally vertical front corner. A bumper, which is installed on the wire basket, along the front corner, has an elongate body, which wraps around the front corner and which has two lateral edges. Along a lower portion of each lateral edge, the bumper has a wing projecting into at least one of the apertures of the side and front walls. The wing has a recess, which accommodates a given one of the horizontal wires of the wire basket, and portions of the wing project into apertures above and below the given one of the horizontal wires.

Abstract: A vertically movable loading dock bumper device to be attached to a loading dock and interposed between the loading dock and a vehicle during the loading/unloading process, in which the vertical movement of the bumper is in concert with the vertical movement of the vehicle as the vehicle moves vertically during the loading/unloading process. The dock bumper device consists of a mount component, a bumper component, and a slide component, whereby the mount component is fixedly attached to a loading dock, the bumper component accommodates a bumper, and the slide component connects the bumper component to the mount component in a manner permitting the bumper component to move along the mount component in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A bumper beam comprises a first and second channel members, a plate, and a mount. Each of the first and the second channel members being an elongated member that has a length between two opposing ends and a generally U-shaped cross section with a web that has two opposing edges and a pair of flanges that project in the same general direction from the two opposing edges of the web to terminal ends. The two web edges and the flanges extending along the length. The plate extends between and connecting the first and the second channel members. The mount is connected with one of the first and the second channel members whereby the bumper beam is connected with a frame member of a vehicle.

Abstract: A resilient buffer formed from strip-like material comprises hollow elongate first and second sections which extend transverse to each other. The first section has spaced apart limbs and the second section also has spaced apart limbs. The spaced apart limbs of the first section are joined at one pair of adjacent ends and the spaced apart limbs of the second section are also joined at one pair of adjacent ends. The spaced apart limbs of the first section are joined to the respective spaced apart limbs of the second section to form a closed loop. The closed loop is open at the sides thereof so as to enable relative flexing to take place between the first and second sections.

Abstract: A protective shield or member is provided for the vertical door tracks of a delivery truck wherein the protective shield is generally an elongated substantially transparent C-shaped member constructed of a hard flexible plastic material.

Abstract: A bumper assembly for a shopping cart having a wire basket with horizontal wires bent so as to define a front corner of the basket. The assembly comprises a resilient, extruded, polymeric bumper having front, back, and side apertures extending longitudinally through the bumper, which is slotted so as to accommodate such wires at the front corner. The assembly comprises a pin extending through the back aperture with an interference fit so as to confine such wires between the pin and a front wall of the bumper. The front wall, which partly bounds the front aperture, is spaced from such wires when the front wall is unstressed. The front and side apertures lend enhanced cushioning ability to the bumper, which can yield in flexure, as well as in compression.

Abstract: An air-dam skirt is suspended from a car body (4) in a floating state by resilient members (3), and guide members (5) and regulating members (6) projecting vertically from the car body (4) or the air-dam skirt (1) into mutual sliding meshing contact with one another to move vertically in a predetermined orbit. Inverse lifting plates (15) or bottom inverse lifting plates (16) reliably lower the air-dam skirt (1) in front of the front wheels when it is necessary to prevent lifting. The base of each guide member (5) or regulating member (6) is fitted movably and is fixed by a shock absorbing member (17) so as to protect the air-dam skirt (1) against breakage.

Abstract: A bumper for a shopping cart basket is molded of an elastomeric plastics material which is relatively soft and provides the bumper with desirable cushioning effect. The bumper is sized to extend substantially the full vertical extent of the basket front corner. The bumper has rounded convex and concave outer and inner surfaces respectively to provide a smooth outer configuration and a smooth inner configuration which snugly mounts against the cart basket. The bumper has pairs of vertically-spaced inwardly projecting mounting flanges integrally molded thereon and provided adjacent the upper and lower ends thereof, which pairs respectively straddle one of the uppermost and lowermost horizontal basket wires. The bumper also has one or more intermediate mounting flanges which also project inwardly for vertical disposition between the upper and lower pairs.

Abstract: A shopping cart having an upwardly opening basket supported on a wheeled base. The basket includes a front wall rigidly joined between a pair of side walls through intermediate front corners. The front and side walls are defined by intersecting wire rods which extend vertically and horizontally to form a gridlike construction. The horizontal wires are normally positioned outermost relative to the vertical wires and are substantially vertically spaced apart. An elongated striplike plastic bumper is positioned to extend longitudinally along and conform with each of the vertical front corners of the basket. The bumper is of a substantially L-shaped cross section and has an inner surface which enables it to conform to and abut against several of the vertically spaced horizontal wires. Upper and lower hooks associated with the bumper project inwardly and downwardly to engage a pair of vertically spaced horizontal wires.

Abstract: A protector for a differential gear casing of a vehicle including a pair of suspension cylinders for the differential gear casing, the protector being pivotally mounted at its upper end to a frame of the vehicle in such a way that it is pivotable about a horizontal axis at right angles with the advancing direction of the vehicle, the protector having mounted thereon a cushion pad which is urged to contact with the differential gear casing by a pair of springs provided between the lower end of the protector and the differential gear casing.

Abstract: Energy-absorption apparatus for truck docks constructed and arranged to withstand impact of semi-trailers backing into a truck dock without damage to the dock over a long period of time. The apparatus of the invention includes a plurality of spring steel leaves disposed in dependent relation from a point above the level of the dock to a point below the dock level so as to accommodate truck trailers of varying heights.