Patent ID: 7967349
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: B60R,B62D

Abstract:
1. An industrial vehicle comprising a frame including two side members parallel to one another and set at a distance from one another, and two side-impact guard devices set at the two sides of the vehicle and each comprising at least one bar extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and connected to the aforesaid frame, said industrial vehicle being characterized in that set between the bars of the impact guard devices at the two sides of the vehicle is a housing structure that houses one or more spare wheels, in such a way that said housing structure and the spare wheel or wheels housed therein contribute, together with the aforesaid bars of the two side-impact guard devices, to absorbing the energy of lateral impact against the vehicle, transmitting it from the impact guard device that has undergone impact to the impact guard device set on the opposite side of the vehicle, and wherein each side-impact guard device is connected to the frame of the vehicle in an articulated way about an axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, between an operative, lowered, position and an inoperative, raised, position, for gaining access to the structure for housing the spare wheels.