Expedition vehicle
View Patent ↗A motorized expedition vehicle has a truck cab, an engine and riding gear package, and a cabin. The cabin can serve any as a living, camping or office area. The wherein the cabin is expandable and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes. To do this, the cabin has an openable rectangular box structure. Namely, there is a rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion, a rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion, and one more rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections. A crawlspace hatchway is formed between the cabin and cab.
1. Apparatus for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a camper comprising a living enclosure;
wherein the camper is expandable and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes, and has a vertically telescopic structure;
the camper interior is provided with an interior partition provided with a door; and
said door:—
is partitioned into upper and lower panels,
the upper panel travels coplanar one side or the other during retraction and extension stroke co-planar relative the lower panel, and
the two panels have separate hinge axes which are offset relative to each other.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the camper has a vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure comprising:—
a rigid rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion,
a rigid rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion, and
zero or more rigid rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein:
said vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure comprises at least one or more rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections intermediate between the rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion and the rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein:
open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion is stationary during expansion and collapsing strokes, while the open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion cycle between vertical extremes.
5. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein:
the open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion of the camper's vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure is formed with a cut-out in a front sidewall thereof; and
further comprising a retractable closure for said cut-out in said front sidewall of said open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion of the camper's vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure;
said retractable closure being operable to keep the cut-out permanently OPEN as well as sized to about the same size independent of whether the camper is expanded or collapsed.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein:
said retractable enclosure is formed by a plural panel retractable enclosure design.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
said door are curved, and
the upper panel's outer edge at the outside of the curve travels horizontally away from the counterpart outer edge in the lower panel when the door is OPENED, and does the opposite when the door is CLOSED.
8. The apparatus for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a camper comprising a living enclosure;
wherein the camper is expandable and collapsible between expanded and collapsed extremes, and has a vertically telescopic, rectangular box structure comprising:—
a rigid rectangular and open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion,
a rigid rectangular and open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion, and
zero or more rigid rectangular-hoop shaped, intermediate sidewall sections; and
at least one bed platform suspended from and living enclosure interior space defined by the open-bottomed upper-sidewall/roof portion of the camper.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising:
another bed platform mounted to and living enclosure space defined by the open-topped lower-sidewall/floor portion of the camper, wherein the two living areas are traversed by a spiral staircase.