Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Patent
1991-06-12
1992-04-14
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
296 571, B62D 2500
Patent
active
051041715
ABSTRACT:
A tailgate guard assembly incorporates a metal plate that closes off the handle recess. The plate is stiffened by an inwardly extending skirt welded to the back of the plate so that the skirt projects into the handle recess to hinder direct access into the handle recess under the edge of the plate. A hinge section along the top edge of the plate hooks in behind the outer panel of the tailgate along the top of the handle recess. A lock disposed near the lower end of one of the sides of the handle recess has a locking dog that rotates to a locking position in which it latches behind the outer panel of the tailgate without any structural modifications or additions to the tailgate. Once the tailgate guard assembly is hooked by its hinge section to the tailgate, the assembly is swung downward toward the tailgate until the lock is positioned so that the locking dog can be turned to its locking position.
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Johnsen Roger L.
Zagaroff Dimiter S.
Song Robert R.
Steadfast Corporation
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