US1621675A - Sectional vehicle body - Google Patents

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March 22, 1927. 1,621,67

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ALFRED MASURY,

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CORPBATION 0F DELAWARE.

SECTNAL VEHICLE BQDY.

Application flied-November 1923. Serial No. 673,419.

'l` his invention relates to vehicle bodies and is concerned particularly with the type of body used for motor busses. lt has for. its principal object to provide a sectional body o which maybe fabrlcated from a plurality of standardized sections. Still anotherobject of the invention is to provide a body of the type described which may be fabricated/With any predetermined number of such standarddepending upon the capacity desires, the, chassis frame, of course, lending itself to variations in size. More particularly, the invention consists in constructing the bus body with a plurality of standardized sections of predetermined depth and arranged transversely of the chassis, the number of such unitsemployed b eing dependent upon the body capacity required.-

ln the preferred form of construction 1t 1s V2o proposed to make each standardized unit of a depth equal approximately to that required for the seatingof a passenger so that the addition of each section to the body length means an increase of capacity by the number 25 of persons who may be seated transversely of the body. The inventionis further concerned with certain details of construction to make for cheapness in manufacture, durability in use and facility in assembly, For

it yis proposed to make each standardized unit as a single pressed metal piece of lll-shape having flanges along its edges to facilitate fastening and having its ends terminating at the height desired for the sills of rlhese and other objects and advantages of the invention will appear with greater particularity hereinafter in connection with the detailed description of the preferred embodiment shovvn in the accomwherein:

Figure l is a view in side elevation of the body of a motor bus fabricated in accordance with the invention and indicating in dotted lines the mannenin which a body of greater might be fabricated by the addition of tivo of the standardized units- Figure 2 is a view in transverse section through the body shown in Figure 1 and taken on the plane indicated by. the line 2--2 of Figure l and looking in the direc- Figure 5 isa fragmentary detailed view in horizontal section through one of the vertical side posts of the body and showing one way of uniting two adjacent sections thereto.

The invention is not concerned with the character or uses of the vehicle body in which the improvements are incorporated but it will probably find its greatest usefulness in connection with the construction of bodies for nlotor busses. rl`here is shown in Figure 1 a typical construct-ion in which the chassis frame a is supported on Wheels?) and carries the bus body c in which are disposed seats l which, in many instances, are disposed transversely of the chassis. rl`he present invention has to do with improved meansv for constructing the bus body c to the end that bodies of did'erent capacities may be 'readily fabricated without necessitating fundamental changes in design or component parts. To this end, the body is composed or a series of transverse sections c', c, 03, etc., made up as unitary stampings' of metal pressed out on a form and preferably hanged bring it to the desired level ofthe sill z' forl the Window sash e. 'lhe depth of each such section c', 02, etc., in acase where the .seats are placed transversely ofthe body is prefo erably equal to the depth of a measured in the usual Way and affording ample latitude from seat-back to scat-back. The sections are assembled by laying them transversely of the side frame members of thechass/is o and with the flanges 09 on the proximatevertical body posts f on which the top g yof the bus is supported. As'indicated in Figure 5 on a large scale the flanges o8 of adjacent sections c, clabut againstr the opposite sides of a vertical post-f and are secured thereto by means of a through bolt It passenger nio ics

shaped itself 'readily to the forming of these units into a channel shape'over a U-shapedmetal form. t f v In fabricating a bus body any desired number of units e', c2, etc., are built up in the manner described on the chassis frame provided in order to afford a body having a predetermined seating capacity. The same standardized units may be employed in fabricating bus bodies for vehicles of greater or less capacities by using a greater or less number of such units. For instance, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure l Where the chassis frame admits two additional units say c6 and 'and c may be .used thereby adding to the seating capacity of the body by eight since in the illustrated `form each section affords space for two transverse seats each one of which holds two passengers.

Changes in details of construction and rearrangement of the parts illustrated may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with the chassis of a vehicle,v of a body fabricated from a series of similar interchangeable standardized U- members of unitary structure disposed transversely of/the chassis and each having a horizontal cally extending side portions, vertical posts at Vopposite sides of the body and spaced a distance apart equal to the Width of a member, and means carried Withthe standardized sections to connect detachably adjacent sec? tions by means of the post disposed therebetween Whereby the posts serve as spacing members.

2. In combination with the lchassis of a motor vehicle, a body thereon including a Se- "ries of interchangeable U-shapedchanneled metal sections ot slmilar t'ormand nnitary structure disposed transversely on the 'chassis and having horizontal portions and vertical portions at the sides extending to the height of the' sills for the windows of the body, in-

wardly and upwardly projecting flanges on the edges of the channels, posts mounted on the chassis and spaced. a distance apart equal to the Width of a channel member and means to secure the channels to theposts whereby a flush exterior Wall is provided.

' This specilication signed this 5th day of 'November A. D. 1923.

ALFRED F. MASURY.

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