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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Douglas R Livingston, Janesville, WI (US);
Brent G Schaffer, Janesville, WI (US);
Randall V Guest, Albany, WI (US);
Assignee:
Stoughton Composites, Inc., Brodhead, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
296187 ; 296181 ; 296 29 ; 296901 ; 220-15 ; 523091 ;
Abstract
A vehicle body, such as an intermodal shipping container, including upper and lower rail assemblies at the longitudinal corners of the body. The lower rail assemblies interconnect the side walls of the container with the bottom wall of the container, and the lower rail assemblies each sandwich and are adhesively bonded to the walls they interconnect to form double lap shear joints that secure the walls together without the use of fasteners and that provide double adhesive seals to make the container weathertight.