Typesetting – Setting machines – Converging chutes
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Gutman, H. (Department: 3612)
Typesetting
Setting machines
Converging chutes
C276S020000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07048277
ABSTRACT:
A Strap Assembly for a tonneau cover and a tonneau cover apparatus including a strap assembly. The apparatus preferably includes, a flexible cover, the flexible cover having first and second ends; a support frame for attachment to a cargo box of a pick-up truck; the support frame having a front bar to which the first end of the flexible cover is secured. The strap assembly includes a strap bracket; and a buckle insertion member; a strap to secure the flexible cover in a rolled up configuration proximate the front bar when the flexible cover is not in use to cover an opening defined by the perimeter of the cargo box. The strap has first and second ends; the buckle insertion member being secured to the first end of the strap; and a strap bracket attached to the front bar. The strap bracket includes a buckle insertion receiving member and a strap receiving opening. The buckle insertion receiving member resists movement forward of the front bar of a rolled up segment of the flexible cover, when the rolled up segment is secured to the front bar by the strap when the buckle insertion member is secured to the buckle insertion receiving member and support frame is secured to the cargo box.
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Agri-Cover, Inc.
Freed Robert C.
Moore, Hansen & Sumner
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