Roadmaster introduced a revolutionary slideout system that uses aerospace steel reinforced (toothed) drive belts to move the slide room assembly. The belts appear as a roughly 2” band near the top and bottom of the slideout box. They look like part of the graphics found on many RV slide box ends. The system requires little initial adjustment and virtually no maintenance, so it should be a win-win for the RV maker and the consumer. There is no additional slide lock, the slide can be manually moved if there is no battery power and the design channels water out of the RV. What impressed me is that it is virtually invisible and it allows taller slideout designs. It also connects the slide box to the RV at BOTH the top and the bottom greatly enhancing the integrity of the slide. Typically, slide boxes are moved in and out on tracks with the top floating or pulled in and out using cables or other mechanisms with the box floating. This creates the need for adjustments both at installation and during use. Conventional systems also require consistent maintenance to maintain the water and weather seal.
With aerodynamics becoming part of the RV design equation, this system will allow contoured walls, so curved surfaces can have slide-outs in them. It is a very simple and stable slideout system that I expect will be featured in many RV designs in the very near future.
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