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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1988
Jay P Hacker, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Rodney A Laukhuf, Haviland, OH (US);
Navistar International Transportation Corp., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
The integral cab side extender or fairing for a tractor-trailer provides reduction of aerodynamic drag. The cab extender is a unitary structure including a rear-quarter-panel-forming portion having a rear wall, a side wall and a front wall. The side wall and rear wall of the rear-quarter-panel-forming portion form an integral fairing. The side wall has a sinuous, progressively rearwardly and laterally outwardly flared sidewall-forming surface and the rear wall has a rearwardly laterally outwardly flared rear wall-forming surface which converges with the flared sidewall-forming surface to form the fairing. The method for mounting the rear-quarter-panel-forming cab extender to a cab of a tractor includes the steps of: