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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2021
The Shyft Group, Inc., Charlotte, MI (US);
Bill Cleaves, Liberty, ME (US);
Steve Mayo, South China, ME (US);
James Rutter, Portland, ME (US);
Jordan Brown, Sidney, ME (US);
The Shyft Group, Inc., Charlotte, MI (US);
Abstract
A truck body with an enclosure assembly that has a plurality of storage compartments with doors each movable between an open position that provides access to respective storage compartments and a closed position that prevents access to that storage compartment. The enclosure assembly includes at least one hidden hinge coupled with at least a portion of the doors to pivot the door between the open/closed positions. There are door flanges surrounding the openings of the storage compartments that, in some embodiments, include: (i) a longitudinally-extending channel dimensioned to receive a mounting portion of the at least one hidden hinge; and (ii) a rim configured to receive a seal.