Patent ID: 7055641

Claim:
A frame for an industrial truck, the truck having a drive portion including the housing and a drive unit within the housing and a lifting portion, the frame comprising: a forward facing apron cut out of sheet metal in a single piece and bent into a bow-shape, the apron being adapted to form front and lateral visible surfaces of the housing, an upright rear wall connected to the apron and adapted to support the drive unit, and upper and lateral portions adapted to define visible surface portions of the housing, the rear wall being formed out of a cut blank of sheet metal and formed by a cold forming process, the upper and lateral portions being part of the rear wall and bent out of the rear wall in the cold forming process, characterized in that the upper portion and/or the lateral portions, at free edges, have inwardly and downwardly bent portions which are continuous and further that impressions and recesses are formed in a raised or recessed surface portion adapted for mount clip nuts therein.