Tilt Or Dump Patents (Class 296/183.2)
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Patent number: 11850927Abstract: A telescoping truck bed shell is disclosed herein. The truck bed shell is capable of being retracted so that the user can have full access to the truck bed and also extended so that the user can have a protected volume at the truck bed in order to store things. The telescoping truck bed has traversable frames and a traversable cover wherein the frames and cover may be traversed between extended and retracted positions depending on whether the truck bed shell is being deployed or stored.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Inventor: Nicholas J. Singer
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Patent number: 11624215Abstract: A tilt bed for a multi-utility vehicle that is movable from a flat conveying positon to a tilted dump position. The tilt bed has a lift handle construction that combines a molded thermoplastic portion integral with the tilt bed body and a handle bracket that provides reinforcement in the appropriate location to provide a sturdy handle for ease of lifting. The bracket has at least a yoke shape underlying the bed body and is co-extensive with a neighboring edge of the bed body to provide a comfortable lift area. The bracket is rigidly attached to the bed body, and may also have a more robust shape such as a closed loop. For added stiffness and strength, the bracket may also be rigidly connected to the bed frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jason L. Martin, Kyle J. Streetz
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Patent number: 11065998Abstract: A finish machined rear pivot support a dump body of a haul truck can comprise a pair of rear pivots spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a cross-member extending in the first direction between the rear pivots. The rear pivots can be respectively welded in-line with longitudinal support body members on a bottom of the dump body. The cross-member can extend from inward-facing sides of the rear pivots. Each of the rear pivots can include two cut-outs spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The cut-outs can be provided over corresponding one of transverse support body members on the bottom of the dump body.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Bromenshenkel, Mark A. Wagner
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Patent number: 10940780Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a utility vehicle having a pivotable seat connected by a hinge to a fixed platform. The pivotable seat configured to pivot between a first position and a second position defining a standard seat location and a first wall of a cargo bay, respectively. A seatback is configured to form a second wall of a cargo bay when the pivotable seat is in the second position. First and second opposing side walls are positioned on either side of the pivotable seat. The side walls are configured to form barriers at either side of the cargo bay when the pivotable seat is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: CLUB CAR, LLCInventors: Gregory Harris McGraw, William David Reeves, Jr., Joseph Mark Butler
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Patent number: 10760467Abstract: A vehicle has an internal combustion engine and an exhaust system. The exhaust system has a first exhaust tract with a first exhaust outlet extending into the atmosphere as well as a second exhaust tract with a second exhaust outlet extending into the atmosphere. The second exhaust outlet is located in front of the first exhaust outlet in the direction of travel of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Matthias Klietz, Mustafa Idikurt, Gerd Schuster
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Patent number: 10640155Abstract: A utility vehicle transformable cargo box includes a cargo box floor, a first base panel hinged to the front of the cargo box floor, and a second base panel hinged to a front of the first base panel and to a load guard that can slide between a first non-extended position and a second extended position. A pair of side extension panels are pivotably attached to the ends of the load guard, are positioned up against the load guard in the first non-extended position, and extend forward from the cargo box walls in the second extended position.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Praveen Sharma, Rupali Patil, Parag B. Kulkarni, Muzaffar Hasnain, Abhijit Gade
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Patent number: 10486552Abstract: A work vehicle provided with a boarding section and an engine is disclosed. The boarding section is provided with a seat that allows an occupant to be seated thereon. The engine is located below the seat. A separator is provided to separate a foot space for an occupant and the engine from each other. The foot space is formed forward of the engine. The separator is provided with a radiator part formed therein. The radiator part is configured to radiate heat.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Katsuhiro Wakabayashi, Kodai Tateishi, Yoshimi Hirooka, Kohta Nakao, Tatsuya Nagatomi
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Patent number: 10399432Abstract: A deflector attachment is adapted to surround an exhaust outlet provided in a dump body of the machine. The deflector attachment includes a plate member having a curved portion. Exhaust gases exiting the exhaust outlet are adapted to first impact the curved portion. The deflector attachment also includes a pair of side plates spaced apart by the plate member. The deflector attachment further includes an inclined deflecting plate extending between the pair of side plates. The plate member, the pair of side plates, and the inclined deflecting plate define a flow passage for smoothly diverting the exhaust gases exiting the exhaust outlet towards a central portion of the dump body.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Sharath Kesani
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Patent number: 9988099Abstract: A truck body designed for transporting hard rock mined ore. The truck body includes a body floor having a first material forming a floor structure and a liner structure including a second material covering at least a portion of the floor structure. The second material has a hardness that is greater than a hardness of the first material and prevents wear of the truck body floor by the hard rock ore. The truck body includes a front wall and two opposing body sidewalls that taper outwardly from front to rear of the truck body such that a width between the body sidewalls at a rear of the truck body is at least 10% greater than a width at the front of the truck body. The outward tapering of the body sidewalls promotes movement of the load away from the body sidewalls as the load is released from the truck body.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Inventor: LeRoy G. Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 9371027Abstract: A load carrying body for a vehicle includes a curved metal plate floor (10) and a floor attachment system that attaches the floor to opposite sides of the body so that the floor is suspended between the sides. The floor attachment system includes a plurality of tensile members (38) which are the principal means for transferring forces from the floor to the remainder of the body. Each tensile member is coupled at one end to one of the sides of the body of the vehicle and at the other end to a side edge of the floor.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventor: Alan William Dickerson
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Patent number: 9283998Abstract: An air fairing device is connected below the bottom a frameless trailer to improve aerodynamic efficiency and improve fuel economy. One embodiment of the air fairing device provides an air deflector positioned forward of a trolley which supports the frameless trailer at a rear end. A second embodiment of the air fairing device provides two deflectors mounted below the frameless trailer. The first deflector is attached and extends downward from an articulating arm, said arm connecting the trailer to a semi-tractor or truck. The second deflector connected to below the bottom of the frameless trailer and positioned rear of the first deflector and forward of the trolley. A third embodiment is similar to the second but further includes a third deflector positioned between two axles of the trolley.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: MAC TRAILER MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventors: Scott A. Kibler, Eric R. Sabo
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Patent number: 9272652Abstract: A hopper box for a heavy lift truck such as mining trucks that minimizes the height of the gravity center of the load includes sheets that generate a floor, a front wall and two side walls. The sheets includes at least one sheet having a first longitudinal concave curved portion as a floor which continues with a longitudinal upper elongated portion which comprises the front wall thereby generating a single longitudinal curved, collapsed and elongated C-shaped sheet. A multiple number of such sheet may be provided and are placed in a juxtaposed manner until reaching the width by incorporating two side walls having on its lower face two longitudinal rigid U-shaped beams, wherein are also included half-round cross stiffeners on its ends.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: ANSAR DISENO LIMITADAInventor: Alfredo Garcia-Huidobro Valdivieso
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Patent number: 9266457Abstract: Disclosed is a body structure for a dump truck (1) having a body frame (3). The body structure is provided with hinge pins (5) to be located toward a rear of the body frame, a body (2A) to be tiltably disposed on the body frame via the hinge pins and to be adapted to load payload (9), and stiffening members arranged on outer surfaces of the body. The body is constructed at least of a floor board (62a), a front board (62b), side boards (62c), and a canopy (62d). The stiffening members include side-board stiffeners (61) connecting upper portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the front board to portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the floor board. The latter portions are located rearward of positions laterally corresponding to a barycentric position (G) of the payload (9) in a longitudinal direction of the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kitaguchi, Takayuki Satou, Kazunori Ishihara, Yasuki Kita, Takehito Ikema, Tomohiko Yasuda, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshifumi Nabeshima, Hitomi Ooshima
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Patent number: 9248774Abstract: A system for varying the weight over one or more axles of a truck carrying a container, the container, the truck and the one or more axles being arranged in the manner of a vacuum tank mounted on a vacuum truck having a front axle and one or more rear axles, the system including: a telescopic subframe comprising one or more elongate structures, each elongate structure having a fixed part and a telescoping part telescopically engaged with the fixed part, and each fixed part fixedly attached to a mounting frame of the truck so that the telescopic subframe lays substantially horizontally on the mounting frame; and one or more hydraulic cylinders operable by a controller, each hydraulic cylinder attached to and operably coupling the truck and the vacuum tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: TRINITY GROUP LTDInventor: Douglas Hinde
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Patent number: 9216680Abstract: A truck body designed for transporting hard rock mined ore. The truck body includes a body floor having a first material forming a floor structure and a liner structure including a second material covering at least a portion of the floor structure. The second material has a hardness that is greater than a hardness of the first material and prevents wear of the truck body floor by the hard rock ore. The truck body includes a front wall and two opposing body sidewalls that taper outwardly from front to rear of the truck body such that a width between the body sidewalls at a rear of the truck body is at least 10% greater than a width at the front of the truck body. The outward tapering of the body sidewalls promotes movement of the load away from the body sidewalls as the load is released from the truck body.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Inventor: LeRoy G. Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 9085331Abstract: A trailer for a dumping vehicle, the trailer comprising: a front end, where the front end is curved; a rear end, where the rear end is narrower than the front end; a bottom floor extending between the front end and the rear end; and a pair of opposed sidewalls extending between the front end and the rear end. The sidewalls may be taller at the front end than at the rear end, may arch uniformly from the front end to the rear end, and may arch uniformly from the top to the bottom. The trailer may further comprise a top rail with an oval cross section.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Inventor: Clifford O. McWilliams
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Patent number: 9010833Abstract: The invention relates to a wear-resistant lining element which is intended for a surface on a truck haul body subjected to wear. The wear-resistant lining element has an outwardly directed surface, over which material in the form of pieces or particles, such as crushed ore and crushed rock material, is intended to move, and has an inwardly directed surface intended to face the truck haul body surface. The wear-resistant lining element comprises elastomeric material. The wear-resistant lining element is characterized in that the wear-resistant lining element comprises at least one open cavity in the inwardly directed surface. The invention also relates to a wear-resistant lining, a truck haul body and a method for disengaging material adherent on a truck haul body surface having a wear-resistant lining.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Metso Minerals (Sweden) ABInventors: Anders Burstrom, Jonas Hansson, Henrik Persson
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Patent number: 8960805Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a seat section including a forward driver's seat and a rear seat, a rear seat posture changing mechanism for changing the rear seat in its position between a first posture where the rear seat is in a non-use condition and a second posture where the rear seat is in a use condition, a load-carrying platform disposed rearwardly of the seat section, and a partitioning member for partitioning the seat section from a space behind the seat section. The load-carrying platform includes a forward platform and a rearward platform and is switchable in its state between an extended state where a fore/aft length of the load-carrying platform is increased after the forward platform is moved forward, and a contracted state where the fore/aft length of the load-carrying platform is decreased after the forward platform is moved rearward.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Norimi Nakamura, Teruo Shimamura, Taro Nakamura, Mitsugu Kobayashi, Ryouzou Imanishi, Yoshimi Hirooka, Koji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20150035314Abstract: A dump trailer comprising a U-shaped trailer body having a bottom wall and opposing side walls. The trailer includes a curved front wall and a pivotable tailgate. The front wall is U-shaped when viewed from the top and angles upwardly and forwardly from the bottom wall. A support structure provided adjacent the front wall operatively engages hitch and lift assemblies. The support structure includes spaced-apart supports secured to the front wall; and spaced-apart horizontal beams secured to the supports. The beams extend through apertures in the front wall and into the compartment. This enables the trailer body to be lowered relative to the ground, thus lowering the center of gravity of the trailer. A wheel assembly mounts to the rear end of the trailer via a mounting plate curved complementary to the bottom wall. Cut-outs in the plate reduce the overall weight of the trailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: MAC TRAILER MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventor: Scott A. Kibler
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Publication number: 20140333090Abstract: A hopper box for a heavy lift truck such as mining trucks that minimizes the height of the gravity center of the load includes sheets that generate a floor, a front wall and two side walls. The sheets includes at least one sheet having a first longitudinal concave curved portion as a floor which continues with a longitudinal upper elongated portion which comprises the front wall thereby generating a single longitudinal curved, collapsed and elongated C-shaped sheet. A multiple number of such sheet may be provided and are placed in a juxtaposed manner until reaching the width by incorporating two side walls having on its lower face two longitudinal rigid U-shaped beams, wherein are also included half-round cross stiffeners on its ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: ANSAR DISENO LIMITADAInventor: Alfredo Garcia-Huidobro Valdivieso
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Patent number: 8882178Abstract: A body for a dump truck includes a body frame, a bottom wall, front wall, and left and right side walls arranged on the body frame. The body also includes an earth/sand anti-sticking device and a steel member arranged outside and opposite the earth/sand anti-sticking device such that a space is formed between the steel member and the earth/sand anti-sticking device. The body is provided with at least one steel rib arranged in the space, fixedly secured to the steel member to reinforce the steel member, and arranged extending upright toward the earth/sand anti-sticking device. The steel member is any one of the bottom wall, front wall, and left and right walls, and the steel rib is shaped to divide the space.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kitaguchi, Takayuki Satou, Kazunori Ishihara, Yasuki Kita, Takehito Ikema, Tomohiko Yasuda, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshifumi Nabeshima, Hitomi Ooshima
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Patent number: 8882179Abstract: A body for a dump truck includes a body frame, a bottom wall, front wall and left and right side walls arranged on the body frame. The bottom wall, front wall and left and right side walls define a payload section for loading a payload, an earth/sand anti-sticking device is arranged in a corner part of the payload section to prevent earth or sand from sticking in the corner part. A steel member is arranged outside and opposite to the earth/sand anti-sticking device such that a space is formed between the steel member and the earth/sand anti-sticking device. The body includes at least one steel rib having a ridge extending out from a surface of a plate that forms the earth/sand anti-sticking device, the ridge is fixedly secured by welding to the plate that forms the earth/sand anti-sticking device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kitaguchi, Takayuki Satou, Kazunori Ishihara, Yasuki Kita, Takehito Ikema, Tomohiko Yasuda, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshifumi Nabeshima, Hitomi Ooshima
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Patent number: 8833837Abstract: A utility vehicle according to the present invention includes a chassis, one or more seat rows arranged on the chassis, a cargo bed arranged behind the seat row(s), the cargo bed turnably supported at a pivot of the chassis so as to be changeable between a normal position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is not raised and a dumping position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is raised, and cargo bed locking mechanisms capable of locking the cargo bed in the normal position to the chassis, the cargo bed locking mechanisms each having a grip of a locking operating lever arranged at a front of the cargo bed.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidetoshi Kaku, Yoshinori Tsumiyama, Tyler Furman, Takashi Hisamura
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Publication number: 20140252801Abstract: A method for rebuilding a truck body is provided. The method places a plurality of supports on a segment of a truck body. The plurality of supports defines at least a portion of the segment requiring rebuild. The method then places a rebuilding surface atop the plurality of supports. The rebuilding surface defines a void created between the rebuilding surface and the segment. The method also affixes the rebuilding surface atop the plurality of supports. The method further injects a layer of filler material into the void.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Daniel Raymond Hettinger, Steven W. Pangburn
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Patent number: 8820844Abstract: A frame type dump deck for a dump truck includes a front panel having a pocket formed in a center portion of the front panel having side wall panels which extend perpendicularly from an interior face of the center portion. Two side panels attached to opposing ends of the interior face of the front panel extend in a deck length direction. A floor panel has floor frames arranged in two parallel rows which extend in the deck length direction and terminate at the front panel. Pocket frames extend from the terminal ends of the floor frames in parallel along each edge of the pocket, and include top portions connected via a pocket reinforcement member. The pocket frames are integrally formed on an outside face of the front panel so that an eye end cylinder may be connected to a cylinder hinge above the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Ji Hoon Moon, Kang Woo Lee
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Publication number: 20140232134Abstract: Disclosed is a body structure for a dump truck (1) having a body frame (3). The body structure is provided with hinge pins (5) to be located toward a rear of the body frame, a body (2A) to be tiltably disposed on the body frame via the hinge pins and to be adapted to load payload (9), and stiffening members arranged on outer surfaces of the body. The body is constructed at least of a floor board (62a), a front board (62b), side boards (62c), and a canopy (62d). The stiffening members include side-board stiffeners (61) connecting upper portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the front board to portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the floor board. The latter portions are located rearward of positions laterally corresponding to a barycentric position (G) of the payload (9) in a longitudinal direction of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Kitaguchi, Takayuki Satou, Kazunori Ishihara, Yasuki Kita, Takehito Ikema, Tomohiko Yasuda, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshifumi Nabeshima, Hitomi Ooshima
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Publication number: 20140183903Abstract: A utility vehicle according to the present invention includes a chassis, one or more seat rows arranged on the chassis, a cargo bed arranged behind the seat row(s), the cargo bed turnably supported at a pivot of the chassis so as to be changeable between a normal position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is not raised and a dumping position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is raised, and cargo bed locking mechanisms capable of locking the cargo bed in the normal position to the chassis, the cargo bed locking mechanisms each having a grip of a locking operating lever arranged at a front of the cargo bed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidetoshi KAKU, Yoshinori TSUMIYAMA, Tyler FURMAN, Takashi HISAMURA
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Publication number: 20140183904Abstract: A frame type dump deck for a dump truck includes a front panel having a pocket formed in a center portion of the front panel having side wall panels which extend perpendicularly from an interior face of the center portion. Two side panels attached to opposing ends of the interior face of the front panel extend in a deck length direction. A floor panel has floor frames arranged in two parallel rows which extend in the deck length direction and terminate at the front panel. Pocket frames extend from the terminal ends of the floor frames in parallel along each edge of the pocket, and include top portions connected via a pocket reinforcement member. The pocket frames are integrally formed on an outside face of the front panel so that an eye end cylinder may be connected to a cylinder hinge above the pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventors: Ji Hoon MOON, Kang Woo LEE
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Publication number: 20140159465Abstract: A truck body that efficiently hauls homogeneous and cohesive materials that typically coagulate and adhere together in one consolidated mass. The adhesion of this consolidated mass to the surface of the truck body is minimized and the build up of “carryback” is effectively prevented during haul cycles. Hauled amalgamated materials are dumped from the truck body such that the amalgamation breaks up and is safely dumped. One typical material that displays such a coagulated conglomerate massing is “oil sands” from which oil is extracted. The body design encourages the material to break up as it is dumped by using outwardly tapered walls and a non-linear edge from which the loaded material falls.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventor: LeRoy G. Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 8714658Abstract: A hopper for transportation of mineral or aggregates which prevents the material from falling off due to movements or slope, and which improves load performance and facilitates the download. In the joining areas between the front and the floor and between the sides and the floor there are folded or cylindered pieces giving curvature to such joining points, thus adding anti-adherent features to this hopper. The front is folded with a wide radius, also achieving an anti-adherent feature. There are also folds in the front and the shield to avoid beams in those areas of the hopper, thus decreasing the total weight of such hopper and reducing the appearance of cracks and lessening the amount of welding. Additionally, the area of release is wider than the front and shield portions to allow for a better sliding of the material during unloading.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Minetec S.A.Inventor: Richard Cotal Sepúlveda
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Patent number: 8708400Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a plurality of wheels and a cargo bed assembly. A cargo bed translation mechanism is operable between the vehicle frame and the cargo bed to translate the cargo bed between a range of positions including a first transport position, a plurality of raised position a variety of loading positions. A cargo bed dumping mechanism is operable for tipping the cargo bed to dump the contents of the cargo bed at least from the transport position and the raised positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.Inventor: Harlan J. Bartel
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Publication number: 20140099181Abstract: A dump body which dissuades material from sitting on a top surface of a sidewall of the dump body and thereby reduces spillage while hauling material is disclosed. The dump body may additionally allow an operator of a loader to clearly distinguish the edge of the dump body to facilitate loading and reduce structural damage. The dump body may further create a lower center of gravity while hauling the same payload, which may reduce the risk of rolling the dump body. The dump body may include a pair of sidewalls attached on opposing sides of a bottom wall and extending upwardly, with each having a top surface inclined toward an interior of the dump body. The incline may start at an inside edge of the sidewall and extend upwardly to an outside edge of the sidewall residing at a very outer extent of the sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Iain James Giles-Brown, Christopher Paul Took
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Patent number: 8684437Abstract: A portable mobile recycling center having a drop deck semi-trailer with an enclosed storefront section for office and storage with a bulk recycling section comprising an articulated boom mounted thereto providing means for handling and weighing recyclables and a roll-off recyclables receptacle at the rear of the trailer providing for bulk storage of recyclables. The mobile unit provides recycling opportunities for residential areas that have no means of recycling their large and small unwanted materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Inventor: Jeff L. Collins
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Publication number: 20140054925Abstract: A truck body with geometric features that improve material flow while the truck body is being tilted and the payload is being dumped. These geometric features influence the discharge of the material in the truck to better empty the truck body during dumping and lessen the risk or effect of carryback. The truck body geometry results in less dribble, less hang up, and less carryback. The overall discharge time is also often reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: ESCO CorporationInventors: Steven D. Hyde, Ryan J. Kreitzberg
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Publication number: 20140034409Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, a seat section and a load-carrying platform disposed rearwardly of the seat section. A storage space is disposed rearwardly of the seat section and downwardly of the load-carrying platform, the storage space extending in a lateral width direction of the vehicle body, and the storage space opening toward a lateral side of the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Kubota CorporationInventors: Norimi Nakamura, Teruo Shimamura, Taro Nakamura, Masaru Nakaji, Mitsugu Kobayashi, Ryouzou Imanishi, Yoshimi Hirooka, Koji Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20140015279Abstract: A truck body for use with a mining dump truck uses a support structure having primary and secondary supports fixed to panels defining the hauling cavity. The use of primary and secondary supports in combination with thinner plate steel produces a stable, ultra-light truck body that enables a larger load of mined material to be transported in a single haul cycle. The provision of a larger hauled load results in a substantial increase in the efficiency of the mining operation and reduced costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: ESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Jose Rogerio De Paula e Silva, Alexandre Tavares
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Patent number: 8567847Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame, a utility bed, and a flexible seal. The utility bed includes a left side, a right side, a bed frame, and a forward wall supported by the bed frame. The utility bed is pivotally coupled with the frame and pivotable between a hauling position and a dumping position. The flexible seal is attached to at least one of the bed frame and the forward wall of the utility bed. The flexible seal extends downwardly below the forward wall of the utility bed and laterally at least partially between the left side and the right side of the utility bed. When the utility bed is in the hauling position, the flexible seal contacts the frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Darin D. King, Noriyuki Muto, Tsuyoshi Kumasaka, Jacob O. Borth
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Publication number: 20130278012Abstract: An off-road vehicle has a frame, at least four wheels, two seats mounted laterally beside each other on the frame, a steering assembly, and engine and a cargo box mounted to the frame rearwardly of the seats. Each seat has a seat base and a backrest. The cargo box has a front wall, a pair of side walls extending from the front wall, and a floor. The front wall is disposed rearward of at least a portion of the seats. At least one portion of the floor is adjacent to the front wall. The at least one portion of the floor is removable from a remainder of the cargo box.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Claude GAGNON, Daniel NADEAU, David BELZILE, Stephane SANSCHAGRIN
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Publication number: 20130234468Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: AUSTIN ENGINEERING LTD.Inventor: Jamie Vincent Clarke Hall
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Patent number: 8491031Abstract: A partial cover and tailgate seal is added to the bed of a truck or trailer to prevent a slurry-type load from overflowing the tailgate of the bed when traversing steep terrain and to help seal the interface between the tailgate and the bed.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Inventor: Aaron Dale Brown
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Publication number: 20130106137Abstract: [Problem] To realize a body having a light weight and sufficient rigidity, and therefore, to ease restriction on the authorized payload for a payload section such the authorized payload can be increased and the efficiency of hauling work by a dump truck can be improved. [Solution] A body 5 is provided with sloping plates 14-16 arranged in corner parts of a payload section defined by a bottom wall 7, a front wall 8, and left and right side walls 9; and is also provided with steel ribs 17a-17c arranged in hollow parts 25a-25c between these sloping plates 14-16 and the associated ones of the bottom wall 7, front wall 8 and left and right side walls 9 arranged outside and opposite the sloping plates 17a-17c, fixedly secured to the associated walls by welding to reinforce them, and having ridges 17a1-17c1 extending out from surfaces of the sloping plates 14-16. These ridges 17a1-17c1 are fixedly secured to the associated walls by welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Kitaguchi, Takayuki Satou, Kazunori Ishihara, Yasuki Kita, Takehito Ikema, Tomohiko Yasuda, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshifumi Nabeshima, Hitomi Ooshima
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Publication number: 20130094936Abstract: A truck body designed for transporting hard rock mined ore. The truck body includes a body floor having a first material forming a floor structure and a liner structure including a second material covering at least a portion of the floor structure. The second material has a hardness that is greater than a hardness of the first material and prevents wear of the truck body floor by the hard rock ore. The truck body includes a front wall and two opposing body sidewalls that taper outwardly from front to rear of the truck body such that a width between the body sidewalls at a rear of the truck body is at least 10% greater than a width at the front of the truck body. The outward tapering of the body sidewalls promotes movement of the load away from the body sidewalls as the load is released from the truck body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Inventor: LeRoy G. Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 8398151Abstract: Dumper body (1) comprising a front bottom part (2) and a rear bottom part (14), the front bottom part (2) and the rear bottom part (14) being connected to each other at a bottom angle less than 180°, the rear bottom part (14) ending in an opening (16) and accordingly leaning in relation to the front bottom part (2), as well as that a front end portion (21) in addition is connected to the front edge of the front bottom part (2) in order to limit the loading space of the dumper body in the forward direction, an intermediate part (19) being placed internally in the dumper body (1) between and on top of the front bottom part (2) and the rear bottom part (14) at a deviating bottom angle in relation to both the front bottom part (2) and the rear bottom part (14) in such a way that a hollow space (H2) is formed between the front bottom part (2), the rear bottom part (14) and the intermediate part (19).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: SSAB Technology ABInventor: Bo Lindström
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Patent number: 8360511Abstract: A folded hopper for a mining truck, having a floor made of an anti-abrasive material that increases its resistance and simplifies manufacturing work, bringing up substantial savings of welding and being of low weight, and improving load distribution. The floor includes floor folds with anti-abrasive, side folding that eliminates welding at joints and floor, which improves mechanical resistance and eliminates stress arising from heat concentration upon welding. At the sides, the reinforcement on several beams is simplified by two larger joining beams that keep the structure rigid.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Inventor: Rodrigo Andres Vergara Pinto
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Patent number: 8348322Abstract: A utility bed includes a bed frame, bed floor, pair of carrier arms, end wall, seat bottom, and seat back. The bed floor includes first and second floor portions. The first floor portion is movably coupled with the bed frame and is movable between cargo support and seating positions. Each carrier arm includes first and second ends. The first end is pivotally coupled with the bed frame such that the carrier arms are pivotable about an axis. The end wall is coupled with the second end of each carrier arm. The seat bottom and seat back are respectively coupled with the first floor portion and the end wall. The carrier arms facilitate movement of the end wall between cargo hauling and seating positions. When the first floor portion and the end wall are in their respective seating positions, the seat back and the seat bottom cooperate to provide a rear seat.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Darin D. King
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Patent number: 8313133Abstract: A utility bed includes a bed frame, a bed floor, a sidewall, and a locking mechanism. The bed floor is pivotally coupled with the bed frame and is pivotable between an upright position and a cargo support position. The sidewall comprises a door portion and a wall portion. The door portion is pivotally coupled with the bed floor and pivotable between a closed position and an opened position. The locking mechanism is associated with the sidewall. The locking mechanism is configured to retain the bed floor in the upright position with the door portion of the sidewall in the opened position. Vehicles including a utility bed are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Company, Ltd.Inventor: Darin D. King
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Patent number: 8313136Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicular frame, a utility bed, and a locking device. The utility bed is pivotally coupled with the vehicular frame and is pivotable between a hauling position and a dumping position. The locking device is operable between a locked position and an unlocked position and is configured to prevent the utility bed from pivoting to the dumping position when the locking device is in the locked position.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Company, Ltd.Inventors: David W. Arnold, Michael Bury
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Publication number: 20120256444Abstract: A convertible cargo bed for a utility vehicle can be easily converted, without tools, between passenger-seating, cargo-storage, and cargo-loading configurations. The hinged cargo bed floor and tailgate convert to a folding seat assembly that can be latched and carry passengers when not hauling cargo. A seat cushion is secured to the seating surface of the hinged floor panel and is not cargo-facing when the bed is storing cargo. The fully-functioning tailgate secures cargo in the interior of the cargo bed and can be unlatched to provide an open-bed. The convertible cargo bed can be tilted to dump cargo.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: Stealth Manufacturing LLCInventor: Donald Wayne Thurmon
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Publication number: 20120207581Abstract: A truck body that efficiently hauls oil sands, which typically coagulate and adhere together in one consolidated mass. The adhesion of this consolidated mass to the surface of the truck body is minimized and the buildup of “carryback” is effectively prevented during haul cycles. Hauled amalgamated materials are dumped from the truck body such that the amalgamation breaks down and is safely dumped. One typical material that displays such a coagulated conglomerate massing is “oil sands” from which oil is extracted. A non-stick surface is provided on the truck body to overcome the natural adhesiveness displayed by this material and, when being dumped from a truck body, provides a means to assist in releasing the material from the truck body without leaving significant “carryback” that tends to buildup over haul cycles. Plus, the body design encourages the material to break down as it is dumped.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventor: LeRoy G. Hagenbuch
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Patent number: 8240969Abstract: Cargo wagon to transport bulk material in different conditions which allows the load not to attach itself to the surface of the wagon, speeding up the unloading process, wherein said cargo wagon is formed by a defined structure which vertebral frame is conformed by a longitudinal beam, where in a transversal way to such beam ribs have been configured in a semi-rectangular shape which give the volume configuration to the wagon's load; in the Terminal ends of such ribs there are lateral beams that give firmness to the structures that define the ribs; said lateral beams have on their interior end steel plates along their whole longitude that conform an upper lateral end of the wagon; where in said steel plates and in suspended form there are a series of ropes over which there is rubber carpet in suspended form that defines the structure to receive the load.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Duratray Ltda.Inventors: Marco Medel, Mauricio Medel, Manuel Medel, Matias Medel