Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1996-07-03
1998-09-08
Pike, Andrew C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296 98, B60P 704
Patent
active
058035281
ABSTRACT:
For a truck having an upwardly open container and a support structure, a truck cover system is securable to the support structure and capable of drawing a flexible cover over the container. In an exemplary embodiment, the truck cover system includes a pair of nonlinear arms, movable in unison from a first position to a second position. Each of the arms includes an elongate base member slidably engaged with an elongate extension member wherein the extension member has a first elongate portion disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to a second elongate portion, the second elongate portion of the extension member being substantially parallel, noncoaxial, and in slidable engagement with the base member. The first elongate portion of the extension member is secured to the first end of the flexible cover. The truck cover system further includes first and second actuators associated with each of the nonlinear arms to move the arms from the first position to the second position.
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Pike Andrew C.
Pioneer Consolidated Corporation
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