Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-28
2001-01-30
Dayoan, D. Glenn (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
C029S056000, C029S057000, C029S254000, C029S254000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06179361
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate and more particularly pertains to a multi-position tailgate that allows better performance including air deflection.
The use of pick-up trucks is known in the prior art. More specifically, pick-up trucks heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of hauling various items are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,863,213 to Deaver discloses a spoiler, attachable to the tailgate of a pickup truck to improve the aerodynamics of the vehicle and to protect the tailgate from damage. U.S. Pat. No. 5,076,636 to Buck discloses a spoiler attachable to the tailgate of a pickup truck for aerodynamic benefit. U.S. Pat. No. 4,159,843 to Crossman discloses a pickup truck air deflector fitted to the cab of the vehicle.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objective and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate for allowing for better performance including air deflection.
In this respect, the pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing for better performance including air deflection.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate which can be used for allowing for better performance including air deflection. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of pick-up trucks now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a pick-up truck having a rearwardly extending bed. The bed is defined by an open upper end, a closed lower end, opposed side walls, and an open outer end. The open outer end has a pair of apertures in opposing sides thereof. A tailgate is coupled with respect to the open outer end of the bed of the pick-up truck. The tailgate has a pair of protrusions extending outwardly from opposing ends thereof for removably engaging the pair of apertures of the open outer end to facilitate a hinged coupling with the pick-up truck. The tailgate has a pair of tabs extending outwardly of the opposing ends. The pair of tabs each have an elongated bracket extending outwardly therefrom. A pair of side tracks are secured to the opposed side walls of the bed of the pick-up truck. The pair of side tracks slidably receive free ends of the elongated brackets of the tailgate whereby the tailgate can be moved into a raised orientation. A spoiler is pivotally coupled with a lower end of the tailgate.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims the regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate which has all the advantages of the prior art pick-up trucks and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such a pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate for allowing for better performance including air deflection.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved pick-up truck with multi-position tailgate including a tailgate coupled to an open outer end of the bed of the pick-up truck. The tailgate has a pair of protrusions extending outwardly from opposing ends thereof for removably engaging a pair of apertures of the open outer to facilitate a hinged coupling with the pick-up truck. The tailgate has a pair of tabs extending outwardly of the opposing ends. The pair of tabs each have an elongated bracket extending outwardly therefrom. A pair of side tracks are secured to the opposed side walls of the bed of the pick-up truck. The pair of side tracks slidably receive free ends of the elongated brackets of the tailgate whereby the tailgate can be moved into a raised orientation.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the preferred embodiments of the invention as illustrated by the accompanying drawings and description.
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Blankenship Greg
Dayoan D. Glenn
Goldstein & Canino
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