Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Variable capacity of body
Patent
1975-12-16
1978-05-09
Silverstrim, John P.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Variable capacity of body
135 4A, 296 23A, B60P 334
Patent
active
040883639
ABSTRACT:
A combination pick-up truck and camper tent comprising a frame unit in the truck bed, a flat panel fixed to the hinged tailgate of the bed to normally occur in a horizontal plane above in the truck bed and said frame unit and pivotally shiftably to extend horizontally rearward from the bed and establish a tent floor when the gate is pivoted open, a plurality of normally horizontally disposed U-shaped bows pivoted to the frame unit adjacent the gate and below the panel and shiftable to extend forwardly and upwardly, vertically and rearwardly and upwardly from their pivoted axes and a flexible tent skin with edges fixed to related edges of the frame unit and the panel and joined with the bows to normally occur folded below the panel and shiftable with the panel and the bows into taut relationship between said frame and panel and about said bows when said gate is pivoted open.
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Maxwell Georges A.
Silverstrim John P.
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