Patent ID: 7878575
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: B60J,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A trailer with sliding safety door comprising a livestock trailer, a slidable rail assembly fixed to the top of the rear opening of the trailer having a door rail resting on a polymer guide pad fixed to a flange mount top surface extending to the rear and a roller track positioned below the flange mount and fixed to the door rail by brackets thereby provide an assembly capable of sliding along the flange mount from trail side to side, a lower door guide fixed to the bottom of the rear opening of the trailer providing a lower door rail, a first door section hung by rollers residing in the roller track, a second door section hung from the door rail, rail guides fixed to the flange mount and surrounding the door rail so as to contain the motion of the rail; and, rail receivers fixed to the bottom of the doors and receiving the lower door rail so as to provide a guide wherein the elements, in combination, provide a two section door capable of sliding open with the first door section interlocking into the second door section as the rear opening of the trailer is fully opened.