Patent ID: 11873026
Assignee: FONTAINE COMMERCIAL TRAILER, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. A bogie for a lowboy trailer, the bogie comprising:
a pair of longitudinally extending main beams, each main beam having an upper flange, a lower flange, and a web connecting the upper and lower flanges; and
a plurality of transversely extending cross-members connected between the main beams and longitudinally spaced from one another;
wherein each of the cross-members is trough-shaped and has a pair of transversely spaced side sections and a midsection between the side sections, the side sections sloping downwardly toward the midsection; and
wherein each side section of at least one cross-member has a notch formed therein that receives the lower flange of a respective one of the main beams, such that at least part of the downwardly sloping portion of each side section is located directly below the respective main beam.