DE7920585U1 - SUPPLY BOX FOR CARAVANS OR THE LIKE - Google Patents

Description

DipHng. Manfred Bonsmann '- $ «J j;' · Jöeett ^ venstrasse 15 patent applicant D-4050 Mönchengladbach 1

9 (02161) 12114

Paul Claao, Hauptetraße 92b, 4060 Vierern 1 Supply chain for caravans or the like.

The invention relates to a supply chain for caravans od. The like. In particular to accommodate gas bottles, designed as elongated, with a lockable opening of accessible hollow body.

Such supply boxes are arranged on the drawbar of caravans in front of the caravan face. Acquaintance Supply boxes have an essentially one-piece hollow body. For making a Such a hollow body made of plastic requires expensive tools. If such a supply box is to be delivered in different dimensions »this requires separate tools in each case. The transport costs the bulky known hollow bodies are high.

To improve supply boxes of the type mentioned at the beginning, the invention is based on the object of providing a To propose redesign, which can be produced more efficiently and more easily transported, and also variations facilitated in the design of the supply boxes.

To solve this problem it is provided according to the invention that the opposite end limits of the hollow body having box parts are formed as separate parts. In an expedient configuration the front end boundaries form the side walls of the supply box, the closable opening is arranged in a manner known per se in the longitudinal side region of the hollow body. But it can also be provided that the end boundaries form the side walls of the supply box and at least one of the side walls forms the closable opening. The measure proposed according to the invention offers the advantage that it is possible with it is, without changing the box parts having the front end boundaries, the length of the hollow body and thus to vary the dimensions of the supply box seen across the direction of travel of the caravan. The side walls or the box parts having the front end boundaries are separate from the rest of the hollow body and thus Can be produced more efficiently than before, since a plurality of side walls can now be produced at the same time. Another advantage is that the side walls have a different color than the other parts of the hollow body can be, whereby effective variations are easily possible from a visual point of view.

The side walls can be designed as a flat fishnet structure, for example be designed in the form of plates or the like, which can be fixed or detachable or open in a suitable manner.

be pivotally attached to the hollow body. The side walls can also be designed as a profiled body, for example with a profiling in the manner of a corrugated or corrugated sheet metal, with stiffening elevations or -ver-5 depressions, with a circumferential edge running transversely to the side wall plane or the like. The circumferential edge can also be designed so that the facing open end faces in the closed position abut one another, so that a central division of the box is created and the Και 10 most can be opened to one or both end faces is. It can also be provided that the side walls are arranged regularly or irregularly exhibit.

In a further embodiment of the invention, ί can be provided
15 be that the hollow body a the bottom and the back wall

of the supply box, preferably metallic

f cal skeleton, and one to close the opening

{ Serving cover hinged on the top of the rear wall so that it can be swiveled

[ is. This embodiment is particularly advantageous because

■■ 20 hollow bodies designed in this way for storage and transport purposes

ken can be stacked one inside the other, which has a favorable effect on space. The metallic skeleton, which For example, it can be designed as a lattice body consisting of wire mesh, on the one hand brings material savings compared to conventional supply boxes. In addition, as a result of the skeletal training, there is a free one Air access to the interior of the supply box is

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act so that the attachment of the previously usual, for security reasons in the event of an accidental Provide gas outlets from the gas bottles, making air openings unnecessary.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to the drawing. The figure shows a supply box according to of the invention with the lid open, the closed position being shown in dash-dotted lines.

On one of the bottom 1 and the rear wall 2 of a supply box forming skeleton 3 made of wire mesh are laterally Fastening tabs 4 provided on which separately trained, Side walls 5 made of plastic can be attached with a flange-like circumferential edge 6. To close the hollow body formed after the side walls have been attached, the is on the upper longitudinal edge 7 of the Rear wall 2 is pivotably hinged to a cover denoted as a whole by 8. The lid 8 has an upper lid part 9 and a lower cover part 10. The lower cover part 10 is fastened to the lower cover part 9 via a hinge connection 11. This connection can be designed as a film hinge, for example.

Claims (7)

• ■ · Dipl. Ing. Manfred Bonsmann; '..j · · ·; * ·: 6e * ethpvenstraßei5 patent attorney' "" "'* D-4O50 Mönchengladbach» (02161) 12114 File: 79 185 Paul Claas, Hauptstraße 92b, 4060 Viersen 1 supply box for caravans or the like. Protection claims 1. Supply box for caravans or the like » especially for holding gas bottles, designed as elongated, Hollow body accessible via a closable opening, characterized in that the opposite end boundaries of the hollow body having box parts as separate parts are trained. 2. Supply box according to claim 1, characterized in that that the end boundaries form the side walls (5) of the supply box and the lockable Opening is arranged in the longitudinal side region of the hollow body. 3. Supply box according to claim 1, characterized in that the end limits are the side walls of the supply box and at least one of the side walls forms the closable opening. 1 Ulli tt ■. . . . , _ 2 ¹ - ■ ■ · · · · ΓΤ ill · ■ · 4. Supply box according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that that the side walls (5) are flat sheet-like structures. 5. Supply box according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that that the side walls (5) are profiled bodies. 6. Supply box according to one of claims 2 l ^ is 5, characterized in that the side walls (5) have openings. 7. Supply box according to one of claims 1 to b, characterized in that the hollow body is the bottom (1) and the rear wall (2) of the supply box forming, preferably metallic skeleton (3), and a for closing the opening the- · Nender cover (8) is pivotably hinged at the top of the rear wall (2).