Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1998-07-01
1999-12-21
Hoge, Gary C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
52 3, 150166, B60P 704
Patent
active
060039299
ABSTRACT:
A load conformable tarp includes a plurality of strap adjustment assemblies for adjusting the effective length of associated adjusting straps. Each adjustment strap assembly includes an adjustment assembly for adjusting the length of an associated adjustment strap, as well as a locking mechanism for securing a free end of the adjusting strap, the other end being fixed with respect to the tarp base material. Each adjustment assembly preferably includes a pulley throughwhich one end of the adjustable strap is looped, one end of the adjustment strap preferably being fixed to the base material, the other end being free and configured to be engaged in various positions by the locking mechanism, thus forming an adjustable strap loop of variable size. The adjustment mechanism more preferably includes a sheath to cover the adjustable strap loop, and tension members running from the pulley and the locking mechanism, respectively, to the periphery of the tarp, where they terminate in anchors which can be used to secure the tarp. The invention further includes a device for retrofitting existing, non-load conformable tarps, to make them load-conformable. The device includes all of the features of the load conforming tarp, but instead of attaching the strap adjustment apparatus to the tarp or base material, it is attached to a backing material which can itself be attached to tarp base material.
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patent: 5752736 (1998-05-01), Nodier
Hoge Gary C.
Reid John S.
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