Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Patent
1993-06-08
1994-08-30
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
296 571, B62D 2500
Patent
active
053421051
ABSTRACT:
A convertible endgate is provided for a pickup truck which endgate has an elevated endgate forming position and a lowered ramp forming position. The endgate includes front and rear sections pivotally connected together and to the box of the pickup truck. The rear section is more steeply inclined, and the front section is shallower, when the sections are placed in their lowered ramp forming position. Vertically adjustable latches are carried on one of the sections for latching the sections in place in their elevated endgate forming position. The latches are vertically adjustable on slide members and the slide members are vertically adjustable on the frame members of the section. The terminal end of the rear section, i.e. the end which engages a horizontal planar surface when the endgate is disposed in its lowered ramp forming position, includes an L-shaped support member having a horizontal support surface for resting flat against the ground and having a free edge for digging into a bed of a flatbed trailer.
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Drawing Showing Prior Art Ramp and Endgate for Pickup Truck.
Miller James W.
Pape Joseph D.
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