Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1998-11-12
2000-08-01
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
29610006, 296 571, 296 61, B60P 702
Patent
active
060955872
ABSTRACT:
A tonneau cover assembly for selectively covering a pickup truck bed. The truck bed has a left sidewall, a right sidewall, a floor and a tailgate. The tonneau cover assembly comprises a left cover and a right cover, a plurality of hinges attaching the covers to the sidewalls, a pair of rods attached to the inside of the sidewalls, and a pair of springs coiled on the rods. The springs have end portions that extend over the inside of the sidewalls, and a center portion that extends over the sidewalls. The tonneau cover assembly further has a locking mechanism to securedly lock the covers flat against the top of the truck bed.
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Sargent John
Shirlee Harold
Dayoan D. Glenn
L. Williamson George
Morrow Jason
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