Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Racks
Patent
1994-02-14
1995-10-03
Kramer, Dean
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Racks
296 36, B60P 300, B62D 2706
Patent
active
054546125
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a utility rail which may be used independently or as a mounting rail for a utility rack for pick-up truck cargo beds and the like with the rail. The rack is mounted with two present invention rails to cargo bed walls. Each rail has an elongated member having a generally L-shaped cross-section with a vertical segment and a horizontal segment, each segment having inside walls and outside walls; at least one elongated holding slot such as a cargo anchor T-slot running along at least a portion of the outside wall of either or both the vertical segment and the horizontal segment and locating grooves or starter holes located on either the horizontal segment or the vertical segment for penetrating said elongated member with a plurality of attachment devices for attaching said rail to a structure. The elongated member may also contain one or more hollows designed to add strength to the structure and conserve materials. The rails of the present invention are preferably unistructurally formed elongated members of extruded metal or plastic or combinations of metallic and non metallic materials.
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Ferrone Diane L.
Glynn Kenneth P.
Kramer Dean
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