Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1997-02-20
1998-05-26
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
296 571, 224403, 224492, B60P 340
Patent
active
057554803
ABSTRACT:
A truck bed extension for pickup trucks, which extension is designed to increase the effective loading capacity of a pickup truck bed and requires no fasteners for mounting. The truck bed extension is characterized by a pair of quick-release cleats and brackets to facilitate rapidly loading and unloading the truck bed extension on the truck tailgate at the rear end of the bed of a pickup truck. In a preferred embodiment the truck bed extension includes a frame having parallel side frame members, each fitted with a cleat for removably engaging corresponding conventional bed brackets provided in the bed of the pickup truck. A pair of tailgate brackets are also welded or otherwise attached to the side frame members, respectively, for engaging the conventional latching pin mechanism attached to the ends of the downwardly-extended, horizontal tailgate of the pickup truck. Inside and outside frame stringers extend between the side frame members, an extension tailgate is hingedly attached to the outside stringer and releasably closes the rear end of the truck bed extension and an optional cover partially or completely closes the truck bed extension.
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Harrison John M.
Pedder Dennis H.
Tailgator, Inc.
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