Great Dane Limited Partnership

Great Dane LLC

Daniel E Carter

Charles R Fetz

Christian S Lee

Matthew M Gunzburger

Bradley W Stephens

A semi-trailer has a rear impact guard including an elongated horizontal member that attaches to a trailer by a pair of vertical guards. The horizontal member may have a top surface, a bottom surface, and a leading edge from which a surface of the guard member extends rearward to the top or bottom surface. The rear impact guard may include a pair of gussets that extend from the vertical guards. Each gusset may include a main generally planar portion, a first stiffening flange perpendicular to the main portion, and a second stiffening flange perpendicular to the first stiffening flange.

Rear impact guard assembly for trailers

An improved sealing device has a base platform supporting at least an inner sealing member and an outer sealing member. The outer sealing member has a main body portion of substantially uniform thickness along its height, which is taller than the inner sealing member. The improved sealing device can be used to seal the edges of doors that close the opening of a comb-style rear frame of a container, especially wherein the doors are mounted on universal hinges. Each universal hinge has a leaf portion defining a plane surface disposed to face the exterior surface of the door. Each hinge also has an off-set rearward portion, a normal leg and a parallel leg, wherein the hinge is configured such that each of the plane surface of the leaf portion and the edge of the door is disposed in a particular relationship when the door is closed.

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Savannah, GA, United States of America

Daniel E Carter