Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1982-07-26
1985-11-05
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
160213, 292183, 52 71, 340 63, B60P 702, E05C 102, B60R 2500
Patent
active
045509450
ABSTRACT:
A closure for a load container such as an open bed of a truck having a rectangular opening formed by side walls. The closure comprises a plurality of elongated panels each configured to extend greater than the width of the rectangular opening to rest on two opposite side walls of the load container. The panels are hingedly connected together side-by-side at the longitudinal edges thereof for movement between an unfolded position wherein the panels lie in a single plane and completely close the opening and a fan-folded position wherein the panels lie in a single stack superposed on one end panel. The one end panel is fastened at a third side wall forming the rectangular opening of the load container. The ends of the panels have pins for limiting lateral movement when in the unfolded position. The other end panel can be releasably locked onto the fourth side wall when the panels are in the unfolded position.
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Pedder Dennis H.
Pei, Inc.
Reeves Robert B.
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