Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-20
2001-11-20
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
C296S037600
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318780
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to storage units and more particularly pertains to a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck for more easily storing and retrieving items stored in the bed of a truck.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of storage units is known in the prior art. More specifically, storage units heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 2,784,027; U.S. Pat. No. 5,088,636; U.S. Pat. No. 5,121,959; U.S. Pat. No. 5,685,593; U.S. Pat. No. 5,820,190; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 305,878.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck. The inventive device includes a sliding storage device for the bed of a truck that includes a bottom wall and a pair of side walls. The sliding storage device comprises a housing. The housing includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, an elongated front wall and an elongated back wall such that the housing has an open top. The bottom wall of the housing extends beyond the side walls such that a pair of flanges are defined. The flanges are movably positioned in a set of rail members. The set of rail members comprises a pair of female slide rails and a pair of males slide rails. The male slide rails are movably extended in the female slide rails.
In these respects, the sliding storage device for the bed of a truck according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of more easily storing and retrieving items stored in the bed of a truck.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of storage units now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck construction wherein the same can be utilized for more easily storing and retrieving items stored in the bed of a truck.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the storage units mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art storage units, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a sliding storage device for the bed of a truck that includes a bottom wall and a pair of side walls. The sliding storage device comprises a housing. The housing includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, an elongated front wall and an elongated back wall such that the housing has an open top. The bottom wall of the housing extends beyond the side walls such that a pair of flanges are defined. The flanges are movably positioned in a set of rail members. The set of rail members comprises a pair of female slide rails and a pair of males slide rails. The male slide rails are movably extended in the female slide rails.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the storage units mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art storage units, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such sliding storage device for the bed of a truck economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck for more easily storing and retrieving items stored in the bed of a truck.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed of a truck which includes a sliding storage device for the bed of a truck that includes a bottom wall and a pair of side walls. The sliding storage device comprises a housing. The housing includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, an elongated front wall and an elongated back wall such that the housing has an open top. The bottom wall of the housing extends beyond the side walls such that a pair of flanges are defined. The flanges are movably positioned in a set of rail members. The set of rail members comprises a pair of female slide rails and a pair of males slide rails. The male slide rails are movably extended in the female slide rails.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new sliding storage device for the bed
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