Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-22
2005-02-22
Coletta, Lori L. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
C296S053000, C160S191000, C160S215000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06857679
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for assisting in the one-handed safe raising and lowering off a tailgate pivotally attached to a bed of a truck. The apparatus having a module which is positioned to be hidden when the tailgate is in an up position. The module having a spring attached to the tailgate and a side of the bed of the truck for providing a counterbalancing force operating against the weight of the tailgate. The tailgate counterbalance employs lost motion and pretension of a torsion bar to achieve both a safety stop position that arrests the tailgate at about 15 degrees as well as reducing the effort required to lift and lower the tailgate beyond that point.
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Coletta Lori L.
Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds P.C.
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