US 4,544,195 AGranted

Rear cover for pickup truck with attached rigid camper enclosure

OwnerMary M. Gunninventor

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Abstract

A cover for use with a conventional pickup truck having a tiltable tailgate upon which is mounted a conventional rigid camper enclosure of the type having a tiltable rear window panel and being accessible from the rear. The cover includes a flexible waterproof canvas sheet having a forward edge attached by a series of spaced snaps around the top and sides of the camper assembly at the rear end thereof, the sheet extending over and around the window panel and tailgate when in their rearwardly extending open positions. The sheet contains a vertically extending slit for rear access to the camper enclosure and one or more window openings. Flexible insect screens are positioned in registry with the window openings and contain cloth borders which are attached to the rear exterior surface of the sheet around the openings. Flexible plastic windows are attached along their upper surfaces to the interior surface of the sheet above the openings and having zipper material around the remaining sides and the adjacent interior surface of the sheet so that the windows may be rolled upwardly to a rolled, stored position above the openings when not in use. Privacy curtains are attached to the interior surface of the sheet and may also be rolled upwardly to a stored position above the openings when not in use.

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Dependent claims

A cover for use on a conventional pickup truck of the type having a tailgate tiltable from an upright closed position downwardly to a horizontal open position and a rigid camper enclosure mounted over a bed of said truck having an upper rear panel tiltable from a vertially hanging closed position upwardly to a raised open position, said cover comprising

a flexible sheet extending over rear and side edges of said panel and tailgate when in their open positions and having a forward edge portion removably connectable along side and upper rear edge portions of said camper enclosure, said sheet defining at least one window opening therein and a slit extending from a lower rear end of said sheet upwardly a distance at least sufficient to provide access to said camper enclosure,
a screen disposed in registry with said window opening and having a border attached to a surface of said sheet around said opening,
a flexible window pane disposed in registry with said opening, said pane being attached to a surface of said sheet around said opening and being at least partially detachable,
a curtain attached to an interior surface of said sheet having an operative position for covering said window opening and a stored position out of registry with said opening, and
means for connecting lower forward side portions of said sheet across the rear end of said truck for drawing the lower sides of said sheet against the sides of said tailgate, said connecting means comprising a cord having hook terminating ends tautly connected between opposite lower forward corner portions of said sheet, said cord extending across the underside of said tailgate from one side to the other thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.