Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Load cover
Patent
1974-12-23
1977-07-19
Makay, Albert J.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Load cover
296137D, B60P 702
Patent
active
040365212
ABSTRACT:
A cover assembly for covering the open bed of a pickup truck, which can be easily installed and which can be compactly and safely stored on the truck when not in use. The assembly includes a pair of flexible sheet cover sections with inner edges that can be zipped together and outer edges held to elongated levers which are hinged on mounts at the sides of the truck, so that when the levers are pivoted down the flexible cover sections are pulled taut. The outer edge of each cover section is wrapped about a long mount rod, and the rod and cover portion wrapped thereabout are held in a recess of the lever to substantially eliminate localized stress concentrations in the tightened cover section. The mount devices for mounting each lever on a truck side includes a block of rubber which fits closely through a stake hole in the truck, a bolt extending through the rubber block, and a nut which can be tightened to squeeze the block so that it expands sidewardly to become trapped in place.
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Douglas Winston H.
Makay Albert J.
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