Bedliner with pockets for load restraint

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1998-07-10

1999-05-18

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Lining

296 392, 410144, 410152, 403263, 403361, B62D33/02

Patent

active

059043903

ABSTRACT:
A thermoformed thermoplastic truck bedliner has at least one pair of under-cut load restraint pockets formed by portions of opposed bedliner sidewalls. The pockets are recessed from the sidewall so that a load restraining member such as a 2.times.4 beam may be pressed downwardly to be snapped into engagement with the pockets. The pockets support the boards in a horizontal orientation, with the wide dimension of the board extending from front to back within the liner to give greater board stiffness against loads shifting from front to back. The pockets may be formed in either under the rail bedliners or in over the rail bedliners. In an alternative embodiment, each under-cut pocket is formed in a cross shape such that a board may be positioned horizontally or vertically.

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"FlipLiner" Buddy Plastics Division, Anderson Tank Manufacturing Co.

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