Pick-up truck tonneau cover

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1987-07-28

1989-08-29

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Load cover

B60D 702

Patent

active

048610925

ABSTRACT:
A lightweight tonneau cover for covering the open bed of a pick-up truck which can be easily and quickly installed and removed by one person. The cover has lockable front and rear panels joined together for rotation about an axis from an in-line arrangement to completely cover the bed of a pick-up truck and to a compact side-by-side arrangement for shipping, handling, installing, removal and storage. The cover is retained to the pick-up truck by a pair of caliper type latches mounted in the sides of the cover panels. The caliper latches are retained and released from retention posts in body side members of a pick-up truck by merely rotating the panels. When the panels are in-line and cargo bed covering relationship, the jaws of the caliper latches are closed and in locking engagement with the retention posts. When the front or both front and rear panels are rotated to a side-by-side relationship, the jaws of the caliper latches are opened and the cover can be installed or removed from the vehicle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3420570 (1969-01-01), Kunz
patent: 4261611 (1981-04-01), Barry et al.
patent: 4418954 (1983-12-01), Buckley
patent: 4482589 (1984-11-01), Widman

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