Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1989-07-10
1990-07-17
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
B60J 710
Patent
active
049417053
ABSTRACT:
A frame assembly is mounted on a pickup truck for selectively removably attaching a flexible cover over an open bed of the truck. The truck bed is defined by a pair of spaced, parallel upright sidewalls and a pair of spaced, parallel upright front and rear walls which extend transversely between the sidewalls. The rear wall is a hingedly mounted tailgate pivotable between an upright closed position and a horizontal open position. Fastening means is located on the cover and the frame assembly for removably attaching the cover to the frame. A pair of elongated side frame members are mounted on and extend along a top edge of the truck sidewalls, and an elongated front frame member is mounted on and extends along a top edge of the truck front wall between a front end of the side frame members. A generally elongated box channel is attached to a rear end of each of the side frame members and forms a slide channel therebetween. An elongated rear frame member extends along a top edge of the closed tailgate and between the rear ends of the side frame members, and is slideably engageable within the slide channels formed between the side frame members and the box channel, so that subsequent to detachment of the cover from the frame assembly, the rear frame member is slideably disengaged from the slide channels to provide unobstructed access to the truck bed upon movement of the tailgate to the open position.
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