Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Patent
1999-01-04
2000-04-25
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
B60P 1267
Patent
active
060535547
ABSTRACT:
A multi-section vertically retractable and extendable tail gate system that is installable on a pickup truck and that includes a winding shaft housing having a winding shaft rotatably mounted therein, left and right tail gate assemblies each including a guide channel formed in rigid connection with the winding shaft housing, a hingedly connected multi-section tail gate assembly having a bottom end secured to the tail gate assembly winding shaft and being of a width such that the left and right side edges, respectively, of the multi-section tail gate assembly are slidably positioned within respective left and right guide channels, and a winding shaft drive mechanism in connection with the tail gate assembly winding shaft.
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Breaux Joseph N.
Pape Joseph D.
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