Patent ID: 7278666
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. Truck bumper apparatus for heavy trucks, comprising: (a) an elongated bumper member sized to extend across an end of a heavy truck; (b) a support member shaped for supporting the bumper member, the support member comprising an elongated planar mounting plate shaped for extending across a portion of the end of the heavy truck, the mounting plate having plate apertures therein for mounting the support member onto at least two different types of heavy trucks, each of the different types of heavy trucks having a frame with a different pattern of existing frame apertures therein for mounting a bumper thereto, wherein the plate apertures in the mounting plate comprise at least two different sets of plate apertures, each of the different sets of plate apertures being located to register with the pattern of existing frame apertures in the frame of one of the at least two different types of heavy trucks, the plate apertures and the frame apertures being sized to receive plate fasteners for fastening the support member to the frame; (c) the bumper member and the support member being provided with fastening means for releasably fastening the bumper member to the support member after the support member is mounted onto the truck, the fastening means being positioned so as to define a space between the mounting plate and the bumper member, the space having a uniform depth sufficient to accommodate the plate fasteners.