Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1992-02-19
1994-08-23
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296163, B60P 702
Patent
active
053401883
ABSTRACT:
A pickup truck attachment apparatus is provided for a pickup truck having a cab and a cargo space truck bed with a pair of sidewalls and an end wall and a tailgate. The attachment includes a rigid cover for the pickup truck bed shaped to fit over the sidewalls with the rigid cover having a frame supporting a flat panel member attached thereto and having a top and bottom and two sides and two ends. Hinges having quick attaching/detaching hinge pins has one hinge leaf attached to the truck bed end wall and the other hinge leaf attached to one end of the rigid cover and adapted for the rigid cover to rotate on the plurality of hinges so that the rigid panel can be raised and lowered from the tailgate end and can be quickly removed from the truck. Accessory attachment members are attached to the rigid cover panel for attaching accessories, such as a cover or the like so that the rigid cover can support attachments thereto. The rigid cover can be rapidly removed from the truck and supported on another surface, such as a boat or can form the floor for a trailer.
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Hobby III William M.
Pedder Dennis H.
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