Patent ID: 8550540

Claim:
A rigid, laterally wedge-shaped, and fully enclosed device for attaching to and covering an entire blunt nose of a blunt-nosed trailer that is attached to and spaced behind a towing vehicle without impinging upon the towing vehicle so as to reduce drag of the blunt-nosed trailer when being towed by the towing vehicle by changing the blunt nose of the blunt-nosed trailer to a lateral wedge, comprising: a) a frame; and b) a skin; wherein said frame is laterally wedge-shaped; wherein said frame is rigid; wherein said frame is attached to the blunt nose of the blunt-nosed trailer without impinging upon the towing vehicle; wherein said skin is rigid; wherein said skin is laterally wedge-shaped; wherein said skin encloses said frame; wherein said skin covers the entire blunt nose of the blunt-nosed trailer so as to reduce drag of the blunt-nosed trailer when being towed by the towing vehicle; wherein said frame comprises: c) a sole plate; d) a top plate; and e) studs; wherein said sole plate of said frame is flat; wherein said sole plate of said frame is horizontally oriented; wherein said sole plate of said frame is triangular-shaped, and as such, has: f) an apex corner; g) a pair of sides; h) a base; and i) a pair of base corners; wherein said top plate of said frame is flat; wherein said top plate of said frame is horizontally oriented; wherein said top plate of said frame is triangular-shaped, and as such, has: j) an apex corner; k) a pair of sides; l) a base; and m) a pair of base corners; wherein said studs of said frame comprise a first stud; wherein said first stud of said studs of said frame extends vertically from one base corner of said sole plate of said frame to a corresponding base corner of said top plate of said frame; wherein said studs of said frame comprise a second stud; and wherein said stud of said frame comprise an adjacent third stud and fourth stud.