Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1986-03-21
1988-12-20
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
160327, B60J 710
Patent
active
047921790
ABSTRACT:
This invention attaches a flexible truck bed cover to the truck, by means of a plastic strip sewn into the cover, fitting inside a gap at the top of the bed, created by a supporting frame or a bed liner. The stretch in the flexible cover allows the plastic strip into the gap on all four sides of the bed and the contracting of the fabric keeps it in there, plus while the vehicle is in motion, the downward motion of the slipstream increases the forces holding the strip into the gap. A zip out access panel facilitates a separate opening within the cover itself for one-handed opening and ease of access by means of a U shaped panel behind the cab of the truck. Being the full width of the bed and 25 inches down the bed, it gives 10 square feet of access.
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patent: 4647103 (1987-03-01), Walblay
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