Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1998-10-30
2000-09-05
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
296 971, 296 44, B62C 106
Patent
active
061131717
ABSTRACT:
A tailgate extender is provided for extending the length of a cargo surface of a bed of a truck having a receiver hitch or the like. A support platform is provided by a single weldment of a flat aluminum plate, a receiver tube, a support bar and sidewalls. The receiver tube is mounted to a lower surface of the aluminum plate. The support bar is formed from a flat strip of aluminum having a forward facing planar surface which abuts a rearward end of the receiver tube, and an upwardly facing edge which abuts and is welded to the lower side of the aluminum plate. An elongated mounting post has a forward section which releasably fits within the receiver hitch, and a rearward section which releasably fits within the receiver tube. Holes extend through respective ones of the forward and rearward sections of the mounting post for aligning with respective holes in the receiver hitch and holes in the receiver tube for receiving latch pins to secure the support platform to the truck. The support platform and the elongated mounting posts have profiles such that the lower surface of the aluminum plate of the support platform will fit flush against and overlap the end of a cargo surface of the truck. Two tailgate sidewall sections are pivotally mounted to forward ends of two of the sidewalls of the support platform.
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Handley Mark W.
Pape Joseph D.
Patel Kiran
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