Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Camper
Patent
1990-04-06
1991-05-28
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Camper
296161, 296164, 296242, 296 376, B60P 3345
Patent
active
050187783
ABSTRACT:
A pickup truck attachment allows a pickup truck to be used for carrying a dog box, a camping enclosure, and mounted seats on the back of the truck. The attachment includes a storage compartment shaped to fit in the cargo compartment of a pickup truck which compartment has an entrance in the rear thereof. A platform is attached over the storage compartment to the sidewalls of the cargo compartment to provide a support surface thereover and includes a pair of slide tracks attached to the top thereof. A foldable tent structure has a plurality of frame members and a flexible covering and at least two of the frame members are slidably attached in the slide tracks at one end of the frame members and adapted to slide therein for opening and collapsing the tent structure on top of the platform. A pair of seats are removably attached to the top of the platform for seating on the platform or placing on the ground while camping. The platform includes a pair of storage tanks with a water tap and a filler cap.
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Popular Science, vol. 179, No. 1, p. 90, Jul. 1961.
Focarino Margaret A.
Hobby III William M.
Hoge Gary C.
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