Patent ID: 11933101
Assignee: JET CO. INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC E  B | IPC B  E

Claim 12:
13. A trailer chosen from the group consisting of a belt trailer, a hopper bottom trailer, a seed trailer, a fertilizer trailer, a belly dump trailer, a walking floor trailer, a commodity trailer, a dump body, a dump truck, and an end dump trailer comprising:
a trailer wall comprising at least one material thickness, and having an inside trailer surface and an outside trailer surface;
an oblong, transparent window located in a hole of the trailer wall that passes from the inside trailer surface to the outside trailer surface, the transparent window comprising:
a transparent cylindrical stem having a transparent cylindrical stem perimeter surface defined as the surface along a height of the transparent cylindrical stem, and an inside transparent cylindrical stem base surface that is oriented towards an inside surface of the trailer wall and outside transparent cylindrical stem top surface that is oriented towards an outside surface of the trailer wall;
a holding flange disposed at one of (1) an inside cylindrical stem base surface or (2) an outside cylindrical stem top surface and wherein the holding flange has a holding flange perimeter extending than the stem perimeter;
a groove adjacent to one of (1) the inside cylindrical stem base surface or (2) the outside cylindrical stem base surface and wherein the groove is on a opposite end of the transparent cylindrical stem of the holding flange, the groove having an inner perimeter bottom surface that is below the transparent cylindrical stem perimeter surface and wherein the groove is within the transparent cylindrical;

a compressible seal disposed between the holding flange and the outside surface of the trailer wall;
at least one open-ended bracket having a groove engaging portion and a side wall engaging portion, wherein the groove engaging portion is positioned within the groove and the trailer wall engaging portion is positioned adjacent the trailer wall; and
wherein the bracket is affixed to the trailer wall.