US 2019/0168657 A1 · TRUCK BED CARGO LIFT AND LOADER

Abstract

A truck bed cargo lift and loader is provided consisting of a pivotable and extendable platform or tray whose side supports are connected to linkage bars attached to carriers located in proximity to each base beam on the side of the lift and loader towards the open end of the truck bed, and which carriers travel along a worm gear jack screw with opposing threads installed in the cross member connecting the side base beams, such that when the jack screw rotates upon being driven by an electric motor or by a manually operated hand crank connected to a gearbox attached to the jack screw, the carriers travel towards and away from each other depending on the direction of rotation of the jack screw thereby raising and lowering the linkage bars with their platform or tray.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A loader and lift for the cargo bed of a truck comprising:

2 base beams placeable within and on each side of the cargo bed of a truck;
a platform with its first end pivotably connectable to each base beam proximate to the first end of each base beam;
a support pivotably secured to the platform and pivotably secured to each base beam proximate to a second end of the base beam, and wherein the support is moveable from a first position wherein a second end of the platform is positioned proximate to the base beam to a second position wherein the second end of the platform is elevated relative to the base beam.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/210,249Filed 5 Dec 2018

Priority

CA 2 988 0316 Dec 2017

Published

6 Jun 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

B60P 1/4492
Having a loading platform thereon raising the load to the level of the load-transporting element: design or construction of the moving platform itself
B60P 1/12
Actuated by mechanical gearing only: with toothed gears, wheels, or sectors; with links, cams and rollers, or the like
B60P
Vehicles adapted for load transportation or to transport, to carry, or to

Truck bed cargo lift and loader

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Truck bed cargo lift and loader

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Abstract

Claims10