Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-20
2008-05-20
Dayoan, D. Glenn (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
C296S105000, C052S079500, C135S133000, C160S352000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11521468
ABSTRACT:
A tarpaulin system that turns a flatbed trailer into a fully covered trailer and closes to provide an open flatbed trailer. The system is comprised of a plurality of inverted U-shaped support bows extending laterally across the trailer and secured to sections of the tarpaulin. Each support bow has rollers secured thereto for sliding movement along rails on each side of the trailer. A plurality of pairs of inverted U-shaped uplifting bows also extend laterally across the trailer and are pivotally secured to the support bows on opposite sides to spread apart during opening of the system. Intermediate support rods are secured between adjacent pairs of uplifting bows and extend laterally across the trailer between the uplifting bows beneath the tarpaulin sections to restrict the tarpaulin sections from falling between the uplifting bows when the system is closed.
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Chenevert Paul
Costellia Jeffrey L.
Dayoan D. Glenn
Nixon & Peabody LLP
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