Vehicle frame straightening installation

Abstract

Abstract AN INSTALLATION FOR REPAIRING DAMAGED AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE BODIES AND FRAMES COMPRISING A CONCRETE FLOOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF SLOTTED ANCHOR-RAILS EMBEDDED THEREIN FLUSH WITH THE SURFACE OF THE FLOOR AND DISPLACED FROM EACH OTHER ALONG PARALLEL LINES ARRANGED PERPENDICULARLY TO EACH OTHER TO DEFINE ONE OR MORE REPAIR BAYS. EACH SLOTTED ANCHOR RAIL IS FORMED OF METALLIC CHANNELING TO DEFINE A SLOT HAVING A CROSS-SECTION OF AN INVERTED T, WHICH PREFERABLY IS CONSTITUTED BY A PAIR OF C-SHAPED ROLLED STEEL CHANNELS WITH THE BASES THEREOF DISPOSED VERTICALLY BACK-TO-BACK TO DEFINE THE STEAM OF THE T, WITH THE UPPER FLANGES THEREOF EXTENDING OUTWARDLY IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDENTAL WITH THE SURFACE OF THE FLOOR AND THE LOWER FLANGES THEREOF EMBEDDED IN THE CONCRETE FLOOR, AND A THIRD LARGER UPWARDLY DIRECTED C-SHAPED CHANNEL HAVING THE TOP EDGES THEREOF WELDED TO THE FREE LOWER EDGES OF THE SMALLER CHANNELS. ANCHOR ELEMENT OF FORCE-EXERTING UNITS AS WELL AS ANCHOR MEMBERS FOR FLEXIBLE FORCE-TRANSMITTING LINES ARE ADAPTED TO BE MOVED AND POSITIONED ALONG THE SLOTTED ANCHOR RAILS, AND AN ESPECIALLY RUGGED AND READILY MOVABLE ANCHORING MEMBER MAY BE CONSTITUTED BY A PAIR OF CONGRUOUSLY DISPOSED L-SHAPED PLATES ADAPTED TO BE MOVED WITHIN THE SLOTTED RAIL, INDIVIDUALLY OR IN UNISON. EACH PLATE MAY BE FORMED OF AN APERTURED UPRIGHT PORTION ADAPTED TO BE SELECTIVELY JUXTAPOSED WITH THE ADJACENT UPRIGHT PORTION TO DEFINE AN ALIGNED ANCHORING APERTURE NEAR THE TOP THEREOF, AND A LATERAL FLANGE EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE LOWER END OF SAID UPRIGHT PORTION TO ENGAGE THE ANCHOR RAIL AT THE TOP OF THE BASE AND AT THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE VERTICAL STEM OF THE T-SLOT, WHEN THE PLATES ARE JUXTAPOSED, BUT WHICH MAY BE DISENGAGED FROM THE SLOTTED RAIL WHEN THE PLATES ARE LONGITUDINALLY DISPLACED FROM EACH OTHER.

Inventors

• 👤 David Dinerman

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