The Mm˛® Expandable Rooms to Go
housing solution provides durable and highly portable shelter for
a wide range of interim needs. Applications include
portable office usage, vending kiosk, medical or emergency shelter
applications. The Mm˛® units fully expand in less than three
minutes, to three times their original volume; a goal not previously
attained by any durable materials solution (versus tents or soft
materials. The Mm˛® is mounted on a 17' two-axle chassis,
which can be pulled with almost any small truck or van. We have
tested this technology to be pulled by common truck models; including
the Toyota Tundra and Ford 350.
Mm˛® interior
space is flexible and can be easily divided into one, two,
three, or four individual
rooms. A standard model provides 275 sq. feet of space. A
larger capacity version provides up to 800 sq. feet of living and
working space. A ten-year effort has been invested in the
design, testing, patenting and marketing of this unique product;
including thorough road testing in the challenging terrain of Baja
California, Mexico.
The
Mm˛® Expandable Rooms To Go units are highly flexible; and
can be outfitted for use as mobile health clinics, portable dressing
rooms, interim office space, food service, trade exposition usage,
control centers, disaster relief shelters, and more. Such
varied uses do not require basic design changes, but only slight
modifications to the chassis. The basic, yet flexible design
allows units to be marketed in different industries as shells; with
the specific use tailored to meet industry or individual
requirements.
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Mm2® Features and Benefits
for Expanded Space needs |
For Slide-outs or Expanding Rooms - mounted on
trailer or truck frames - Morrow mobiles˛ Inc. can offer your
company the technologies needed to increase usable square footage
and volume. Why have fixed widths or height, when both
dimensions can be changed at the same time, quickly, while
maintaining level floors?
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Level Floors |
When rooms slide out, the floors of
these rooms should be in the same horizontal plane as
that of the interior main body floor. This
prevents step ups, improves seals, and lessens
manufacturer liabilities. |
| Positive Environmental Seals |
When your expanding rooms slide in
and out, or if the rooms and main body raise or lower
vertically, your customers deserve complete protection
from water, dust, insects, and other intrusive
elements. |
| Easy to use Support Jacks |
When rooms slide out, what is the
mechanism used to provide support, beneath the
extended rooms? With the Mm˛, the user simply
adjusts the support jacks, from inside the
rooms. There is no need to crawl under vehicles! |
| Levered-Over-Center Walls |
If your product utilizes vertical
expansion, how do the upper and lower halves of the
end and side walls become vertically aligned, for
continuity and rigidity? With the simple flip of
a lever, your customers can easily make one strong
vertical wall from two separate halves, using the
Mm˛® technology. |
| Low Towing Profile |
If your product does not expand or
contract vertically, your customers face increased
fuel costs and greater exposure to damage, resulting
from crosswinds and dynamic instability (caused by a
high center of gravity). With its low profile in
the closed position, the Mm˛ will help you to cut
costs and increase safety, creating more satisfied
customers. |
| Interior Headroom Greater Than
Exterior Closed Size |
When using vertically-expanding
products, your customers should enjoy over 7 feet of
interior headroom. Can your company deliver this
feature from a product measuring less than 7 feet from
ground to the top of roof, when closed?
You can now! |
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Mmm2® Video
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Click
on the photo at left to watch a ten-minute video of our
Mm2® in action! This video features
an Mm2 with four separate rooms. Our newest
model features a
common area which can be divided, and a simplified
hydraulic and hand-crank expansion (reducing unit
weight and power requirements). For those with lower speed internet connections, please click
here
to watch this video.
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Additional Mm˛® Questions and
Answers |
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The rooms slide out of the main body
and lock onto the upper edge of the roof; the roof is
then raised, pulling up the extended rooms. |
Click the image, below, to watch
wire-frame version of the Mm˛ unit expansion process...
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The extended rooms have two parts; a
lower and an upper half. The upper extended room
fits over the lower one, when the unit is closed or the
roof is lowered. As the unit is opened, the upper
extended room - locked onto the roof - is vertically
pulled over the lower room. The lower extended room
doesn't move during this procedure. Once the
roof is fully raised, the lower and upper room edges seal
together. |
Click the image, below, to watch
another image of Mm˛ unit expansion...
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The
unique levered-over-center end walls snap into place and - along
with the four corner posts - form a strong vertical unit, which
easily supports the weight of the roof and rooms. A steel
roof truss provides extra strength and lifting capability, at the
point where the rooms attach to the roof.
No,
we have developed a technology which creates a single, flat floor,
once the rooms are extended. When closed, the extended
floors rest on the main floor. Opened, the floors of the
extended rooms become aligned on the same plane. We are not
aware of any other extended room vehicles, with this feature.
For
most applications, Mm2 expansion and contraction is
powered by a hydraulic system, running on standard 12V DC current
(same as car batteries). The rooms and roof are kept from
binding by use of a cabling system, which keeps them straight and
aligned. If a loss of electrical power is experienced,
disabling the hydraulic system, then the manual override system
may be used to expand and contract the unit.
In
addition to the 12V DC system used for the hydraulic motor (also:
for ceiling and exterior porch lights), when plugged into a normal
AC system, Mm2 units provide AC power through
GFI-protected outlets. Whenever connected to an AC source,
the Mm2's converter delivers 12V DC power to the
lights, while
charging the onboard battery system. Understanding that
power specifications differ from country to country, we are happy
to install any customized electrical components, to meet
your specs. Just specify voltage, amperage, and receptacle
design required. Our standard configuration is 110-120V AC,
30 amps, with separate 20 amp breakers on each circuit.
Room
frames are made of lightweight, tubular steel. Unit
end-walls and roofs are filled with insulating foam and covered
with durable fiberglass skins (inside and out). This
combination not only lends strength and beauty, but also provides
R-factor insulation values of over 19 (roof) and 12 (walls).
Floors are composed of Nida-Core® polyethylene hexagonal panels,
laminated with luann plywood. This makes the floors
exceptionally strong, yet extremely lightweight.
The
Mm2 has electric brakes mounted on all four wheels,
controlled by a sending unit in the tow vehicle. A resistor
helps to ensure safe and even stops. The unit also has a
breakaway switch, powered by a battery attached to the braking
system.
A
minimum 3/4-ton chassis rating is required, with a 1-ton rating
recommended. The tow vehicle should also have a brake
sending unit with a standard six-pin connector (to activate
brakes; power running, stop and turn signals; and trickle-charge
the Mm2 battery). The Mm2 comes with a
two-inch ball coupler, which can be switched to a different type,
such as a pintle-hook connector, if requested.
We
designed this configuration (longer axle in front and a shorter
axle nested behind it), after much road testing in the rugged back
country of Baja California, Mexico. Some very narrow
mountain roads had no shoulders, and therefore presented major
safety problems when two vehicles were going in opposite
directions. In such situations, standard in-line axles do
not suffice; as, in moving to avoid collision, the outer tire of
the longer axle will extend off the road. The inner axle
provides the solution, with one tire able to remain on the road,
in most situations. This nested axle configuration also
provides:
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Much improved dynamic towing stability
and better tracking |
| Unparalleled ability to "turn on
a dime," allowing the Mm2 to be moved
into areas that even many small trailers cannot access |
| Ease of changing the inner tire if one
goes flat (with standard dual tire setups, you usually
must remove the outer tire to change the inner one, not
so with our nested axle arrangment)! |
Hydraulic
jacks located at all four corners and under the center of the unit,
provide an amazing ability to both level and stabilize the Mm2.
This inter-connected system of jacks provides unparalleled ability to
create a level, stable platform, in just about any terrain condition.
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medical facilities layout
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