Vehicle mounting collar
AssigneeAmtech Corporation
InventorBrandon W. Bushbaum
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Abstract
A collar system for a connecting the cab of a vehicle to the cargo bed cover or similar boxed attachment, the vehicle mounting collar including a webbed collar frame designed to mount to a standard driver's compartment or cab, without modification to the vehicle. The collar and attachment method are extremely flexible and accommodates any vehicle tolerance variation. The collar mounts to the rear flange on the cab of the vehicle, and the bulkhead of the collar has slots to receive shell of the cargo bed cover. Shell bolts within the bulkhead slots allow the shell to be adjustably repositionable on the bulkhead of the collar by slippage of the shell bolts within the bulkhead slots.
Claims10
A vehicle mounting collar comprising:
- a collar web extending from a collar bulkhead, the collar bulkhead having an approximately inverted U-shape, the collar bulkhead having a bulkhead length to form an overarching bulkhead top, a bulkhead leg extending approximately downward from each end of the bulkhead top, and each bulkhead leg terminating at a bulkhead foot;
- the bulkhead having slots located along the bulkhead length and down the bulkhead legs, the bulkhead foot seated upon a bed of the vehicle and the collar web seated against a cab of the vehicle;
- the cab having a rear flange and the collar web securely sealed to the rear flange;
- the cargo bed cover having a shell, the shell mountable onto the collar bulkhead with a plurality of shell bolts received into the bulkhead slots, the shell adjustably repositionable on the bulkhead of the collar by slippage of the shell bolts within the bulkhead slots.
A vehicle mounting collar comprising:
- a collar web extending from a collar bulkhead, the collar bulkhead having a bulkhead length to form an overarching bulkhead top, a bulkhead leg extending approximately downward from each end of the bulkhead top, and each bulkhead leg terminating with a bulkhead foot;
- the bulkhead having elongated slots located along the bulkhead length and along the bulkhead legs, the bulkhead foot seated upon a base frame of the vehicle and the collar web seated against a cab of the vehicle;
- the cab having a rear flange and the collar web securely seated on the rear flange;
- the cargo bed cover having a shell, the shell mountable onto the collar bulkhead, the shell adjustably repositionable on the bulkhead of the collar.
A method of a vehicle mounting collar system, comprising the steps of:
- a) seating a collar web against a cab of the vehicle, the collar web internal to a collar bulkhead, the collar bulkhead having an approximately inverted U-shape, the collar bulkhead having a bulkhead length to form an overacting bulkhead top, a bulkhead leg extending approximately downward from each end of the bulkhead top, and each bulkhead leg terminating at a bulkhead foot;
- b) mounting the bulkhead legs upon a bed of the vehicle
- c) adjustably mounting a shell of a cargo-bed cover onto the collar bulkhead with a plurality of shell bolts;
- d) inserting the shell bolts into a plurality of bulkhead slots within the bulkhead;
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- e) repositioning the shell on the collar bulkhead by slippage of the shell bolts within the bulkhead slots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.