Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – End gates
Patent
1991-05-31
1992-06-23
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
End gates
2961801, B62D 3302
Patent
active
051236923
ABSTRACT:
What is provided is a tailgate storable beneath a truck bed, which includes a tailgate body, defining the rear wall of the truck bed; an axle for allowing the tailgate body to move from a first upright, vertical position, to a second, horizontal position; a pair of tracks secured beneath the truck bed, and extending rearward to accommodate the movement of the tailgate body; roller members secured to the ends of the axle means, and rollable within the tracks, so that when the tailgate body is moved to the second, horizontal position, the tailgate body may be slidably moved to a position beneath the truck bed, as the roller members roll within the tracks; a rod member extending across the length of the tailgate body for supporting the tailgate body when the body has been moved to the second, horizontal position; a channel formed in the wall of the tailgate member for engaging the rod member when the rod member supports the tailgate in the horizontal position; and a locking for locking the tailgate body in position beneath the bed of the truck, when the tailgate body has been moved to the second, horizontal position beneath the truck bed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2659902 (1953-11-01), Fitzgerald et al.
patent: 4171844 (1979-10-01), Landaal et al.
patent: 4580828 (1986-04-01), Jones
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