Title: Industrial vehicle frame with internal, structurally reinforcing fuel and hydraulic fluid tanks

Abstract: A frame assembly for a tractor shovel or the like includes a front frame and a rear frame having generally U-shaped cross-sections. The frames are pivotally joined by a vertical shaft. A rectangular parallelopiped hydraulic fluid tank is internally mounted in the front frame, and its side and front edges are secured by welding or the like to the front frame plates. Similarly, a rectangular parallelopiped fuel tank is internally mounted in the rear frame, and its side and rear edges are welded or the like to the rear frame plates. The arrangement offers increased frame strength and rigidity with no increase in weight, and the tanks are better protected by reason of their internal mountings.

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Inventors: Shimazaki, Akio (Osaka, JA)
Kambe, Osamu (Osaka, JA)

Application Number: 736016
Filing Date: 1976-10-27
Publication_date: 1978-05-02
Assignee: Toyo Umpanki Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JA)
Primary Class(es): 280/834
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1789238	Jan, 1931	Lancia	280/5.
2535301	Dec, 1950	Tourneau	280/5.
2725223	Nov, 1955	McCallum	280/5.
2822056	Feb, 1958	Muller	280/5.
3437163	Apr, 1969	Lemmerman	180/51.
3880445	Apr, 1975	Chieger	280/5.

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Primary Examiner: Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Assistant Examiner: Schrecengost, R.
Attorney: Sughrue, Rothwell, Mion, Zinn and Macpeak