Tarp cover system with lever-operated locking and brake means

Details Tarp cover system with lever-operated locking and brake means Tarp cover system with lever-operated locking and brake means

1991-07-24

1992-07-14

Stormer, Russell D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Roll-up covers

242 8652, B60P 704

Patent

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051296985

ABSTRACT:
A tarp cover system includes a pawl (44) and ratchet (26) mechanism for locking a tarp cover (6) in a rolled-up truck-body-uncovered condition, and a lever arrangement (32,38) that is initially squeezed with one hand by the operator to release the pawl from the rachet to unlock the rolled up cover, and is subsequently pivoted by the same hand to brake (28,34) the unwinding of the cover as it is spring-biased toward the truck-body-covered condition. To re-cover the truck body, a crank shaft (24) is rotated to rotate the roll in the cover-winding direction against the biasing force of the spring, the ratchet mechanism preventing uncontrolled unwinding of the cover.

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patent: 4252362 (1981-02-01), Campbell
patent: 4893864 (1990-01-01), Bailey
patent: 5054840 (1991-10-01), Wilhite

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