Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Lining
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-09-09
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Lining
49383, 16250, B62D 3302
Patent
active
056648227
ABSTRACT:
A tailgate gap cover for attachment to pickup trucks to cover the gap formed between the tailgate and the truck bed. The tailgate gap cover includes a plurality of adjacently disposed interconnected panels, the arrangement of all the panels thereof comprising: a truck bed panel disposed for removable attachment to the truck bed of a pickup truck, adjacent the tailgate gap; a tailgate panel disposed for removable attachment to the tailgate of a pickup truck, adjacent the tailgate gap; and a folding panel operatively disposed between the truck bed panel and the tailgate panel, the folding panel being pivotally connected to the truck bed panel and the tailgate panel, wherein the interconnected panels substantially cover a tailgate gap when a tailgate gap cover is mounted to a pickup truck. The folding panel being foldable from a unfolded configuration when the tailgate is in the horizontal open position, to a folded configuration when the tail gate is pivoted from the horizontal open position to the vertical closed position.
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Forster William G.
Pedder Dennis H.
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