Hot Slag Body
Vehicular body for hauling materials, comprising an external skeletal frame of metal members forming the primary load-bearing structure of the body; a metal lining supported by the skeletal frame and forming the interior surfaces of the body for containing loads of material, the exterior surface of the lining being exposed to the ambient atmosphere through the openings in the skeletal frame; and coupling devices securing the lining to the skeletal frame while permitting relative movement between the lining and the frame so that the lining and the frame can expand and contract differentially without stressing each other.
Patent: 4,474,404
Filed: 06-28-1982
Issued: 10-02-1984
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Hot Slag Body
Patent: 4,826,233
Filed: 08-16-1984
Issued: 05-02-1989
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Body Lifting System
Apparatus and method for safely lifting large off-highway truck bodies while minimizing the stresses on the truck body and on the lifting cables/slings. This lifting apparatus and method incorporate temporary lifting eyes installed through lifting hole receivers in the truck body floor while their strength is gained thru interlocking steel members.
Patent Application: 13/364,223
Filed: 02-01-2012
Issued: Pending

Body Design to Minimize Material Loafing
The adhesion of consolidated mass to the surface of the truck body is minimized and the buildup of "carryback" is effectively prevented during haul cycles with this truck body design for hauling extremely cohesive homogeneous materials such as, but not limited to oil sands. Plus, the body design encourages the breakdown of material as the body is dumped.
Provisional Patent: 13/397,663
Filed: 02-15-2012
Issued: Pending

Material Carryback Solution for Haul Truck Bodies
Invention minimizes debris buildup that often occurs on and in truck bodies. Hydrophobic and oleophobic materials are used to coat and protect truck bodies to facility the release of debris that otherwise might stick. This invention is primarily safety oriented to keep material from falling on maintenance personnel. Secondarily, this invention also increases payload, productivity and maintenance efforts.
Provisional Patent: 13/532,662
Patent Application:06-25-2012
Issued: Pending

VITAL SIGNS
Patent: 8,457,833
Filed: 2/25/2011
Issued: 6/4/2013
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VITAL SIGNS
Patent: 8,442,715
Filed: 2/25/2011
Issued: 5/14/2013
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OBDAS
The method for monitoring the volume of material loaded into a truck body. An apparatus is provided for sensing the volume of material held in the truck body and indicating, visually or audibly, when a predetermined volumetric loading has been accomplished. Several different embodiments for the sensing apparatus are disclosed.
Patent: 4,614,477
Filed: 06-27-1983
Issued: 09-30-1986
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OBDAS
An apparatus for accurately measuring the weight of a load carried by a truck body which is pivotally mounted on a truck frame. In order to measure the weigh of the load, the arrangement includes pressure sensors which communicate the entire weight of the load to the truck frame. By providing a pressure sensing apparatus at an interface between the load and truck frame, the weight on the load carried by the truck body can be continually monitored.
Patent: 4,630,227
Filed: 04-27-1984
Issued: 12-16-1986
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OBDAS
Patent: 4,839,835
Filed: 04-01-1985
Issued: 06-13-1989
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OBDAS
Patent: 4,845,648
Filed: 09-23-1986
Issued: 07-04-1989
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OBDAS
A system for processing data derived from the weight of a load carried by of a load carried by a haulage vehicle for generating information concerning haulage cycles executed by the vehicle. Providing additional data that, when taken with weight data, provides a historical data base which more completely reflects vehicle operating conditions. The accumulated data of the historical data base are used to formulate management decisions directed to the future operation of the vehicle.
Patent: 5,327,347
Filed: 08-04-1993
Issued: 07-05-1994
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OBDAS
An apparatus for processing data derived from the weight of a load carried by a haulage vehicle including a sensor processing unit for receiving data from pressure transducers and, in response, detecting a change in the weight of the load and formulating data indicative of hauling conditions of the vehicle.
Patent: 5,528,499
Filed: 03-03-1995
Issued: 06-18-1996
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Remote Vehicular Diagnostic Tracking
Patent: 6,546,363
Filed: 05-24-1995
Issued: 04-04-2003
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Recording & Tracking Vehicular Vital Signs
Patent: 7039507
Filed: 03-07-2003
Issued: 05-02-2006
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,631,832
Filed: 06-07-1995
Issued: 05-20-1997
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,631,835
Filed: 06-07-1995
Issued: 05-20-1997
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,650,928
Filed: 04-21-1995
Issued: 07-22-1997
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,650,930
Filed: 04-12-1995
Issued: 07-22-1997
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,742,914
Filed: 03-13-1995
Issued: 04-21-1998
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OBDAS
Patent: 5,995,888
Filed: 03-04-1998
Issued: 11-30-1999
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OBDAS - Locating A Vehicle In A Working Area
A system disclosed for identifying the location of a vehicle, assembling data related to vehicle performance and correlating the assembled data with vehicle location. Also on board each vehicle are sensors for collecting and recording data indicative of vehicle performance.
Patent: 4,831,539
Filed: 06-13-1986
Issued: 05-16-1989
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Tracking and Recording Vital Signs...
Patent: 7,765,039 B1
Filed: 4/25/2006
Issued: 7/27/2010
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Remote Vehicular Diagnostic Tracking
Patent: 5,754,965
Filed: 09-25-1996
Issued: 05-19-1998
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Apparatus for Tracking and Recording Vital Signs of a Vehicle
Patent: 8,014,917
Filed: 03-19-2010
Issued: 09-06-2011
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Method of Estimating the Volumetric Capacity of a Truck Body
This relates generally to off-highway trucks and more particularly to a method of calculating the estimated volumetric carrying capacity of the body of an off-highway truck.
Patent: 7,257,467
Filed: 11-1-2002
Issued: 8-14-2007
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3D Modeling of Load
This method provides for a dump body which is designed for specific field operating environments and for designing off-highway dump bodies taking into account the actual field conditions. More specifically, to provide a process for three-dimensional modeling of required dump body loads and the related design of dump bodies based on actual field conditions at particular sites.
Patent: 7,369,978
Filed: 6-13-2000
Issued: 5-6-2008
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Process for Three-Dimensional Modeling and Design of Off-Highway Dump Bodies
Designing dump bodies which more accurately take into account field loading/haulage conditions by gathering data from actual field environments. From this data a three dimensional model of the load is generated and used to design the truck body to achieve the desired volume and distribution of weight on the truck chassis.
Patent: 7,412,357
Filed: 06-15-1999
Issued: 08-12-2008
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Method of Estimating the Volumetric Carrying Capacity of a Truck Body
Patent: 7,917,266
Filed: 08-13-2007
Issued: 03-29-2011
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Three-Dimensional Modeling
By using site specific information to generate a three dimensional model of the load, the haulage body can be dimensioned to be filled to capacity in four or less passes of the loading shovel by distributing the material into the body centered with minimal falling distance of the material.
Patent: 8,113,763
Filed: 4-21-2008
Issued: 2-14-2012

Additional patents are located in the "Body Design" section.

A Heavy Equipment Hauling Rear Loading Trailer
A rear loading lowboy trailer having a pair of rear wheel assemblies mounted to a chassis of the trailer for movement between transport and loading positions. A linkage mechanism moves each of the wheel assemblies in both horizontal and vertical directions capable of automatically fastening the wheel assembly to the chassis of the trailer when moved to the transport position.
Patent: 7,950,685 B2
Filed: 10/27/2008
Issued: 5/31/2011
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RE Tailgate Actuation System & Ejector Guide Assembly
Patent: 7,878,751 B2 (Divisional)
Filed: 11/26/2007
Issued: 2/1/2011
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Blade Assembly
Patent: D395436
Filed: 09-14-1994
Issued: 06-23-1998
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Rear Eject Body
Patent: 7,326,023
Filed: 2-25-2003
Issued: 2-5-2008
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Charge Bucket Loading for Electric ARC Furnace Production
Patent: Application No. 12/134,174
Filed: 6/5/2008
Issued: Patent Pending
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Off-Highway Truck Tailgate
A tailgate for a rear dump vehicle having a pair of side plates that are pivotally connected to the side sheets of a dump body. A telescoping rear plate is connected to the pivoted side plates that provides for expansion of the sidesheets of the dump body. A pair of telescoping outriggers are coupled between the side plates and the rear pump vehicle main frame that provides ease of assembly of the tailgate on a plurality of vehicles.
Patent: 3,751,112
Filed: 6/17/1971
Issued: 8/07/1973
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No Bounce Tailgate
Patent: 5,249,843
Filed: 10-01-1992
Issued: 10-05-1993
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Tailgate Rotation
A connecting mechanism within the tailgate assembly that joins one end of each side plate of the assembly to the frame of the vehicle carrying the assembly wherein pivoting of the dump body of the vehicle causes the connecting mechanism to rotate the tailgate assembly.
Patent: 4,678,235
Filed: 07-25-1983
Issued: 07-07-1987
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ISOS Tailgate
A subassembly for the pivotal body of a heavy-duty truck comprising a tailgate assembly which rotates between service and out-of-service positions in order to provide a truck body having a dual volume capacity.
Patent: 4,621,858
Filed: 09-28-1984
Issued: 11-11-1986
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Tailgate Assembly
Patent: 6,517,143
Filed: 06-12-2001
Issued: 02-11-2003
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Tailgate Assembly
Patent: 6,726,288
Filed: 05-14-2002
Issued: 04-27-2004
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Tailgate Assembly
Patent: D494911
Filed: 05-02-2003
Issued: 08-24-2004
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ISOS Tailgate
Patent: 5,887,914
Filed: 06-07-1995
Issued: 03-30-1999
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No Bounce Tailgate
Patent: 5,174,632
Filed: 11-20-1991
Issued: 12-29-1992
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ISOS Tailgate
Patent: 5,474,363
Filed: 11-30-1993
Issued: 12-12-1995
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Automatically Opening Container Tailgate
Patent: 6,092,863
Filed: 08-01-1997
Issued: 07-25-2000
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Bent Steel Tailgate
Patent: D474725
Filed: 06-12-2001
Issued: 05-20-2003
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Tailgate Assembly
Patent: 6,796,602
Filed: 02-11-2003
Issued: 09-28-2004
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In-Service/Out-Of-Service Rotatable Tailgate
Patent: 6,491,349
Filed: 12-06-2000
Issued: 12-10-2002
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Water Tank Baffling
Patent: 6,547,091
Filed: 06-01-2001
Issued: 04-15-2003
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Baffled Tank for a Vehicle
Patent: 7,735,507 B2
Filed: 04-11-2003
Issued: 06-15-2010
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Baffled Tank for a Vehicle - Variable Volume Feature
Patent: 8,307,844
Filed: 
Issued: 11-13-2012
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Truck Hoist Cylinder Mount
Patent: D400491
Filed: 05-26-1995
Issued: 11-03-1998
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Top Dumping Container Handler
Patent: 5795031
Filed: 01-22-1996
Issued: 08-18-1998
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Connector Arm For Tarp Cover
Patent: D334158
Filed: 03-28-1991
Issued: 03-23-1993
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Push Block for Vehicle
A method for providing an extension to the frame of a heavy-duty, off-road vehicle such that the frame is accessible from the posterior area of the vehicle for pushing or pulling. The extension is operably coupled to the body and frame such that it is automatically rotated to an out-of-the-way position during the dumping of a load.
Patent: 5102198
Filed: 10-02-1991
Issued: 04-07-1992
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Rotating Load Ejector Mount
Patent: 5228750
Filed: 12-06-1991
Issued: 07-20-1993
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Load Ejector Lattice Tie
Patent: D360170
Filed: 12-18-1991
Issued: 07-11-1995
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Load Ejector Attachment Mount
Patent: D343784
Filed: 12-18-1991
Issued: 02-01-1994
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Conditioned Ash Surge Bin
Patent: 5236261
Filed: 01-27-1992
Issued: 08-17-1993
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Seatbelt Usage Detection System
Patent: 7005976
Filed: 10-29-2002
Issued: 02-28-2006
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Container Identification Apparatus
Patent: 5416706
Filed: 03-04-1994
Issued: 05-16-1995
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Top Dumping Container Handler
Patent: 6439668
Filed: 03-13-1998
Issued: 08-27-2000
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Floating Container Material Handling Process
Patent: 6129506
Filed: 10-15-1997
Issued: 10-10-2000
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Bottom Dump Door Latch
Patent: 5224761
Filed: 01-15-1992
Issued: 07-06-1993
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Container Identification Apparatus
Patent: 5644489
Filed: 06-07-1995
Issued: 07-01-1997
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Rear Eject Body for Off-Highway Haulage
Patent No: 03743236-6
Filed: 2/25/03
Issued: 8/15/12

Rear Eject Body
Japanese Patent: 2003-571114
Issued: 11-01-2009

Rear Eject Body
Japanese Patent: 5030979
Issued: 07-06-2012

Rear Eject Body for Off-Highway Haulage
Great Britain Patent: 1487664
Filed: 2/25/03
Issued: 8/15/12

Rear Eject Body for Off-Highway Haulage
German Patent: DE 60341833.3
Filed: 2/25/03
Issued: 8/15/12

Rear Eject Body For Off-Highway Haulage Units
Patent: EU 1487664
Filed: 15 February 2003
Issued: 15 August 2012

3-D Modeling and Design of Off-Highway Dump Bodies
Canadian Patent: 2,583,769
Filed: 6/13/2000
Issued: 4/26/2011
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Apparatus for Transitioning Heavy Equipment Between Transport & Loading Positions
Canadian Application No: 2,703,528

Baffled Tank for a Vehicle
Canadian Patent: 2,388,177
Filed: 5/28/2002
Issued: 4/19/2011
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Apparatus for Transitioning Heavy Equipment Between Transport & Loading Positions
Application No: PI0819209.0

Process for 3D Modeling & Design of Off-Highway Dump Bodies
Australian Patent: 758,375
Filed: 6/13/2000
Issued: 7/17/2003

Apparatus for Transitioning Hevay Equipment Between Transport & Loading Positions
Australian Application No: 2008316558

Rear Eject Body for Off-Highway Haulage
Australian Patent: 2003216408
Filed: 2/11/2003
Issued: 9/10/2009

Baffled Tank for a Vehicle
Australian Patent: 2003203671
Filed: 4/11/2003
Issued: 8/02/2007

Baffled Tank for a Vehicle
Australian Patent: 2007203369
Filed: 7/19/2007
Issued: 2/10/2011