Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1996-09-04
1998-06-02
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
1603681, B60P 704
Patent
active
057589224
ABSTRACT:
A tonneau cover for covering an area of a vehicle bounded by upright walls of the vehicle in which a flexible cover sheet is attached to a frame rail mounted to the vehicle by the use of a pivot lever. The pivot lever has an inner or proximal end which engages an outward facing bearing surface of the frame rail. Once engaged, the sever is rotated outward and downward to apply tension to the cover sheet. The pivot lever is held to the rail in the downward pivoted position by complementary magnets carried by the pivot lever and the frame rail. The magnetic force resists the rotational moment applied to the pivot lever by the tension in the cover sheet.
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