Collapsible folding truck trunk

#Not Applicable

#The various embodiments and aspects described herein relate to a trunk for a bed of a truck.

#Trucks are typically used to haul material in its bed area from one location to another. However, truck beds have become accessorized so that the truck bed can be used for a variety of uses and more than merely hauling material. By way of example and not limitation, truck beds can be retrofitted with toolboxes, tonneau covers, shells and other accessories that bring additional functionality to truck beds. Unfortunately, these solutions are fixed in that once installed, the user typically does not remove these accessories. Also, if the user needed to remove these accessories from the truck bed, an extended period of time and great strength would be required in order to reconfigure the truck bed between different accessories.

#These and other features and advantages of the various embodiments disclosed herein will be better understood with respect to the following description and drawings, in which like numbers refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

#FIG. 1 illustrates a first embodiment of the trunk traversed to a back position;

#FIG. 2 illustrates the trunk with a lid and tailgate in an open position;

#Referring now to the drawings, a trunk 10, 12, 14, 300, 436, 536 for a bed 16 of the truck 18 is shown in FIGS. 2A, 7A 13A, 28, 38, and 39. The trunk 10, 12, 14, 300, 436, 536 provides an isolated space within the bed 16 of the truck 18 in that various panels of the trunk 10, 12, 14, 300, 436, 536 provide a barrier from surfaces of the bed 16 of the truck 18 so that objects (e.g., groceries) may be placed in the trunk 10, 12, 14, 300, 436, 536 and protected from dirt on the surfaces of the bed 16 of the truck 18. The trunk 10, 12, 14 may be positioned in a back position, as shown in FIGS. 1, 6, 12 and 31. Alternatively, the trunk 10, 12, 14 may also be horizontally traversed to a front position as shown in FIGS. 5, 11, 20 and 28. The trunk 10, 12, 14, 300 may be easily traversed between the front and back positions so that great strength is not required to reconfigure the position of the trunk 10, 12, 14, 300 within the truck bed 16. Weaker people may reconfigure the trunk 10, 12, 14, 300 between the front and back positions without assistance or help from another person. Additionally, in both the front and back positions, the trunk 10, 12, 14, 300 may provide an enclosed space that may be locked to provide security for items placed within the enclosed space. Additionally, in FIGS. 27-32, the trunk 300 may comprise a tonneau cover 302 and a trunk 304.

#Referring now more particularly to FIGS. 1-6, the trunk 10 may be horizontally slidable and mounted to the left and right rails 20, 22 (see FIG. 2A) that are attached to upper lips 24, 26 of left and right side walls 28, 30. The trunk 10 may be traversed to the back position so that groceries 32 and other items may be easily placed in the trunk 10 (see FIG. 2) and retrieved therefrom. To open the trunk 10, the user may lift up a lid 34 of the trunk 10 and/or pull down a tailgate 36 of the truck bed 16. The trunk 10 may also be easily traversed to the front position by sliding the trunk 10 in a horizontal direction 40 (see FIG. 3) toward the cab 38 of the truck 18. When the trunk 10 is in the front position, panel 42 may be removed from an underside of the lid 34 and fixed in place in order to form the enclosed space of the trunk 10 as shown in FIG. 4. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 3, the back panel 42 may remain secured under the lid 34 and the lid 34 flipped up so that a motorcycle 88 may be loaded onto the bed 16 of the truck 18 thereby utilizing a full length of the truck bed 16.

#The trunk 10 may include a front panel 44, a bottom panel 46, left and right sections 48, 50, the lid 34 and the back panel 42 as shown in FIG. 2. The bottom panel 46 may be rigidly fixed to the front panel 44. The left and right sections 48, 50 may be identical but mirror images of each other and have a step 52, 54 that accommodates the left and right wheel wells 56, 58 of the truck bed 16 so that the trunk 10 may be easily traversed between the front and back positions without having to vertically lift the trunk 10 over the wheel wells 56, 58 of the truck bed 16. The bottom panel 46 may be disposed close to but not in contact with a floor 60 (see FIG. 2A) of the truck bed 16 so that the trunk 10 may easily slide in the horizontal direction. The left and right sections 48, 50 have steps 52, 54. The steps 52, 54 are positioned above the highest point 62 of the wheel wells 56, 58. The highest point of the wheel well 58 is not shown but is identical to the highest point 62 of the wheel well 56.