A chassis leg 10, particularly for a trailer or a load carrying vehicle such as a truck or a lorry, comprises a pair of spaced apart upper and lower flanges 30, 40 joined between their respective terminal edges along one side by a web having a portion 21 extending inwardly into the space defined between flanges 30, 40. Preferably, inwardly extending portion 21 is a central portion bounded at opposing ends by first and second angled or sloped portions 22a, 22b joined respectively to the upper and lower flanges by first and second shoulders 23a, 23b, with first portion 22a ideally having an angle φ of between 25 degrees and 45 degrees to first shoulder 23a, and second portion 22b ideally having an angle β of between 20 degrees and 40 degrees to second shoulder 23b; first and second portions could be of the same length or of different lengths.
Chassis leg member
2017-01-25
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge |
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