Tailgate lock

Details Tailgate lock Tailgate lock

1997-10-20

1998-10-20

Gall, Lloyd A.

Locks

Portable

Padlocks

49394, 70 39, 70 53, 70164, 70258, 292319, 292323, 296 571, B62D 33033, E05B 6724

Patent

active

058230220

ABSTRACT:
A lock and keeper assembly are employed to secure a pickup truck tailgate against theft. A conventional keeper is modified by flattening its bight region. The flattened bight is placed into capturing relation to a transversely disposed, inwardly extending protrusion formed in a side wall of the pickup truck adjacent the tailgate. A transversely disposed, outwardly extending hollow, "C"-shaped axle integral with the tailgate receives the protrusion, so the flattened bight and the lock body cooperate to trap the protrusion within the hollow axle. The hollow axle cannot be separated from the protrusion without first defeating the lock.

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