Method of making cover system for truck box with fastening means
OwnerJerry R. Dimmerinventor
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Abstract
A fastening system for a flexible cover system for a truck box includes a first fastening material on the side edges of the flexible cover and a second fastening material that releasably engages with the first fastening material. The second fastening material comprises a fastening surface bonded to a substantially rigid elongated slat, and is slidingly received in channel portions of side rails mounted on the side of the truck box. The first fastening material can be one member of a hook and loop type fastener and the second fastening material can be the mating member of the hook and loop type fastener.
Claims11
An improved cover system for an open top container or truck box, the open top container or truck box having a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls, wherein at least one of the walls has a top edge, the system having a flexible cover material with dimensions approximately the same as the dimensions of the open top and an upwardly facing and a downwardly facing surface, a first fastening means disposed along at least a portion of at least one side edge of the downwardly facing surface of the flexible cover material, and a rail capable of being mounted adjacent the edge of the wall and having an outwardly facing portion defining an elongated channel portion, wherein the improvement comprises:
- an elongated, substantially rigid second fastening means having an integrally formed fastening surface positioned to engage the first fastening means, the second fastening means being dimensioned to be capable of longitudinal slideable engagement with the channel and also dimensioned to be incapable of lateral movement from the channel,
- wherein the second fastening means is prevented from longitudinal escape from the channel.
In a method of making a cover system for an open top container or truck box, the system comprising a flexible cover having dimensions approximately the same as the open top, the flexible cover material having an upwardly facing surface and a downwardly facing surface, the flexible cover material having strips of first fastening material disposed along at least a portion of two side edges of the downwardly facing surface, the open top container having strips of second fastening material integrally formed with an elongated slat mounted on a side rail substantially at a top edge of a wall of the container or truck box, the first fastening material and the second fastening material being reversibly engageable with one another to fasten the cover to the open top, the improved method of manufacture comprising:
- first, slideably introducing the second fastening means into the channel along the channel's longitudinal axis;
- and,
- second, blocking slideable escape of the second fastening means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.