Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1987-12-29
1989-04-11
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296164, 296219, B60P 702
Patent
active
048199818
ABSTRACT:
A cap is provided for disposition over the load bed of a pickup truck and includes opposite side wall structures having lower marginal portions for close juxtaposed position relative to upper marginal portions of the side walls of the load bed. Each side wall structure and the corresponding side wall include longitudinally spaced vertically separable mounting portions supporting the side wall structure from the side wall for angular displacement relative thereto about an axis extending along the lower marginal portion of that side wall structure. In addition, each pair of mounting portions includes support and guide means interconnecting therebetween operative to guide the corresponding side wall structure relative to the corresponding side wall for up and down movement relative thereto between a lowered position juxtaposed position the side wall and an upper limit position, the support and guide structure including spring means yieldingly biasing the side wall structure toward its upper limit position. Also, each pair of mounting portions includes latch structure for releasably latching each side wall structure mounting portion against upward displacement relative to the corresponding side wall mounting portion.
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Moe Gilmore L.
Swenson Gleo
Reeves Robert B.
Sells Brian
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