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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1978
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1976
Peter Andrews, Penfield, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A substantially skidpan apparatus device of which at least one portion thereof is hooked and/or removably secured to at least one cross member or to at least one other structural portion of a first type of motor vehicle of the race car, automobile or car, truck and bus type. At least one portion of oil or fluid drippings which have dripped from at least one portion of the above disclosed motor vehicles are retained therein. The apparatus device is also for specific use in a boat type of non-highway used motor vehicle to prevent at least one portion of th inland waters from being oil polluted. The oil or fluid drippings being generally captured and retained in at least one portion of a fluid retaining receptacle portion of the apparatus device and/or at least one portion of a separate material or a nestable receptacle which may be retained in the fluid retaining receptacle portion of the apparatus device. A roadway's, race track's, highway's (car, truck and bus) motor vehicle travelling surface is thereby substantially prevented from 'summer icing' of the disclosed motor vehicles traveled surfaces and 'viscous hydroplaning' of the motor vehicle's tires thereon, is substantially prevented at and especially when the four first type of motor vehicle's are abruptly started, stopped, curving or curving in and out at a high rate of speed or even merely traveling at a very high rate of speed.