Cab guard
AssigneeBloomfield Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorThomas K. McIntosh
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Abstract
A cab guard alternatively adaptable for a wide-bed pickup truck with a pair of front stake pockets and a mini-pickup truck with a pair of bed rails. The cab guard including a rigid screen structure, a pair of rigid end brackets, and mounting means for mounting the screen structure in alternate first and second operating positions. In the first operating position, the end brackets are attached to the ends of the screen structure and extend outwardly of the screen structure in a plane coplanar with the screen mesh and the cab guard is mounted in the front stake pockets of a wide-bed pickup truck. In the second of the operating positions, the end brackets are attached to the ends of the screen structure and extend in planes perpendicular to the screen mesh and the end brackets are mounted to the bed rails of a mini-pickup truck.
Claims9
A cab guard alternatively adaptable for a wide bed pickup truck with a pair of front stake pockets and a mini pickup truck with a pair of bed rails, comprising;
- a rigid screen structure including a planar screen mesh having two ends,
- a pair of rigid end brackets each constructed and adapted for attachment to one of the ends of said screen structure in alternate first and second operating positions, and
- mounting means for mounting said screen structure in alternative first and second operating positions;
- in the first of the operating positions said end brackets being attached to the ends of said screen structure and extending outwardly of said screen structure in a plane coplanar with the screen mesh, and said mounting means being for mounting each of said end brackets in one of the front stake pockets of a wide bed pickup truck, and
- in the second of the operating positions said end brackets being attached to the ends of said screen structure and extending in a plane perpendicular to the screen mesh, and said mounting means being for mounting each of said end brackets to one of the bed rails of a mini pickup truck.
A cab guard kit alternatively adaptable for a wide bed pickup truck with a pair of front stake pockets and a mini pickup truck with a pair of bed rails, comprising;
- a rigid screen structure including a planar screen mesh and having two ends,
- a pair of rigid end brackets constructed and adapted for attachment to the ends of said screen structure in alternate first and second operating positions, each of said end brackets having a base portion, and
- mounting means adapted for mounting said screen structure in alternate first and second operating positions, said mounting means including a pair of stake pocket tubes each receivable in a respective one of the front stake pockets of a wide bed pickup truck in the first of the operating positions, said mounting means being adaptable for mounting the base portion of each of said end brackets to one of said stake tubes received in the stake pockets of a wide bed pickup truck and to the bed rails of a mini pickup truck;
- in the first of the operating positions each of said end brackets being attachable to one of the ends of said screen structure and extending outwardly of said screen structure in a plane coplanar with the screen mesh, and
- in the second of the operating positions each of said end brackets being attachable to one of the ends of said screen structure and extending in a plane perpendicular to the screen mesh.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.