Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1993-03-11
1995-10-24
Pike, Andrew C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296104, 403 27, 403230, B60J 710
Patent
active
054604230
ABSTRACT:
A tonneau cover assembly includes a frame attached to the sidewalls of a pick-up truck, one or more clamps to secure the frame in place, a flexible cover which spans the bed of the vehicle, one or more cross-bows which support the flexible cover, and a plurality of cross-bow clips. The cross-bow clips are telescopically engageable with the distal ends of the cross-bow, and can effectively lengthen or shorten the cross-bow. The cross-bow clips are engageable with the top rail of the tonneau cover frame. More specifically, the cross-bow clip includes a pair of projections which are engageable with the two longitudinally extending channels of the top rail. The first projection is hollow, and is somewhat resilient. Thus, it may snugly fit and form to the dimensions of the first channel. The second projection is solid, and rests within the second channel. The cross-bow clip of the present invention allows the cross-bows to be easily mounted to or dismounted from the top rail of the tonneau cover frame.
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Kersting Benjamin M.
Weldy Ross
Custom Form Manufacturing, Inc.
Pike Andrew C.
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