Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1994-06-03
1996-06-11
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296101, B60P 704
Patent
active
055249531
ABSTRACT:
A contractible cover assembly for the load carrying body of a vehicle includes canopy frame cover structure mounted upon a plurality of drive train team members longitudinally moveable along laterally spaced guide track rails to extend or retract the canopy frame cover structure from an open stored position wherein the truck bed is substantially uncovered and the closed covering position wherein the truck bed is closed by the canopy frame cover structure. The laterally spaced guide rails may be mounted along the longitudinal side surface of a vehicle bed or the vertically extending sidewall portions of a vehicle bed for supporting the drive train team members during movement thereon. The canopy frame cover structure includes canopy frames having a rib portion integral with and bridging a pair of support legs, the rib portion having a length sufficient to extend traversely across the width of the vehicle cargo bed and the support legs being attached to and supported by the plurality of drive train members. Drive wheels, operatively connected with a power source and cooperative with a drive cable to provide a selected and synchronized longitudinal movement of the drive train members along the guide rails for moving the canopy frame cover structure between the open storage position and closed covering position. An closure end train member includes a lock plate operatively connected to an extensible canopy support arm which is interconnected to a trip wheel by a lever arm. The lock plate is cooperative with a rail stop to either lock or free a lock pin cooperative with the trip wheel to thereby control rotational movement of the trip wheel, which rotational movement extends or retracts an end portion of the canopy frame cover structure to thereby enclose an end portion of the vehicle bed.
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Hanrath James P.
Pape Joseph D.
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