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US 4,231,610 AGranted
Camper anchoring and locking structure
OwnerChristopher A. Stollinventor
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An anchoring and locking structure for a camper body adapted to be mounted on the rear of a pick-up type truck. The structure comprises rail-like members which are secured to the underside or bottom of the camper body coupled with mating rail-like members secured to a shaft or post which extend into openings formed in the sides of the truck body. The aforesaid rail-like members engage with one another and are retained in assembled relationship by a wing nut which extends from one of the rail-like members and engages the other said rail-like member. A locking member extends within one of the openings in the side of the truck body and release mechanisms extend between the bottom or floor of the camper and the truck body sides so as to enable one to release the locking mechanisms when it is desired to remove the camper body from the pickup truck.
A combined camper anchoring and locking structure for securing a camper body on a truck body comprising a first set of rail members secured to the undersurface of said camper body along the sides thereof, said rail members provided with grooves extending along the edges thereof, a second set of rail members having posts secured thereto and having grooves extending along the edges thereof, openings provided in the sides of said truck body for receiving said posts therein, said grooves in said first and second set of rail members engaging with one another with a means for maintaining said rail members in engaged relationship and a pivoted latch means mounted in said post for engagement with an opening formed in one side wall of said truck body for releasably locking said camper body to said truck body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.