Nesting bedliner with relieved front wall

Details Nesting bedliner with relieved front wall Nesting bedliner with relieved front wall

1998-05-22

2000-03-28

Pedder, Dennis H.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Lining

296 392, B60R 1301

Patent

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06042169&

ABSTRACT:
A thermoformed thermoplastic truck bedliner has a front wall which is integral with and upstanding from a bottom wall. Side walls extend on either side of the front wall and also extend upwardly from the bottom wall. Relieved upwardly extending slots are cut in the bedliner between portions of the side walls and the front wall, to allow the upper portions of the side walls to fold or bend outwardly away from the front wall, thereby permitting improved nestability in a stack of like bedliners. The slots may be cut down to about the level of the wheel well covers, and may be formed in the front wall alone, or in the side walls. Inwardly extending portions of the side walls may be molded with outwardly extending portions of the side walls, such that when the slot is cut, the two portions of the side wall may be folded toward one another to overlap the portions and fully shield the truck bed. Similar structure may be formed in the front wall, and the bedliners may be of the under the rail, or over the rail type. In addition, foldable corners may be molded between the front and side walls, portions of the corners overlapping when the bedliner is installed within a truck bed.

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