Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Roll-up covers
Patent
1987-06-08
1989-01-03
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Roll-up covers
296100, 160 36, 160201, B60J 710
Patent
active
047952067
ABSTRACT:
A cover system for a pickup truck bed having an open top defined by vertical spaced apart side walls, and a front wall is disclosed. The cover system includes a rollable cover unit which has the capability of being either completely or partially extended or retracted to close or expose the truck bed. The cover portion consists of a multiplicity of adjacent transverse rigid panels which are continuously connected along their transverse length by flexible resilient connecting strip members of flexible and water resistant material. The cover unit is extended or retracted by a drive system located at the upper forward section of the truck bed. The drive system includes one or more pinion-type cylindrical drive roller members intermediate the side walls of the truck bed which are in driving contact with and have teeth to positively engage rack-type teeth on the underside of the cover panels. Controls and motor means are provided to control and activate the drive system. A power driven reeling system is provided adjacent to the drive system and connected to the cover unit so that movement of the reeling system will also assist the cover unit to the extended or retracted. The reeling system is linked in a coordinated manner with the drive roller members. In one embodiment, when the tailgate of the truck is removed or absent, the rear opening of the truck bed will be covered by driving the cover unit to the floor at the rear of the truck bed.
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Adelco, Inc.
Reeves Robert B.
Stormer Russell D.
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