Extendable liner for pickup truck boxes
AssigneeTrax Industries Inc.
InventorMervin S. Roshinsky
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Abstract
An extendable liner for a pickup truck box allows the load in the truck to be extended from the rear of the truck for easy access despite the presence of a cap over the box. The liner is supported and extended on a roller assembly. The roller assembly has a pair of tracks fixed to the liner, a pair of tracks fixed to the truck box, and a carriage assembly having a plurality of rollers, one set rides in the tracks fixed to the liner and one set rides in the tracks fixed to the truck.
Claims14
In a vehicle having a storage area with upstanding sides and open at one end, the improvement consisting of an extendable liner comprising:
- (a) a rigid liner having two upstanding, parallel, vertical sides and a floor extending between said sides, said liner being adapted to slide horizontally within said storage area;
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- (b) means for supporting and extending said liner from said open end of said storage area and supporting said liner in an extended position, said extending and supporting means comprising:
- (i) a first pair of roller tracks in parallel spaced relationship fixed relative to said storage area;
- (ii) a second pair of roller tracks fixed in parallel spaced relationship, each said second roller track being fixed to opposite outer vertical surfaces of said upstanding sides of said rigid liner;
- (iii) a pair of roller carriages having mounted thereon a plurality of rollers and adapted for rolling in said first and second roller tracks, each said roller carriage comprising a first vertical surface having mounted on the interior surface thereof a plurality of horizontally-spaced rollers adapted for rolling in said first roller tracks, and a second vertical surface vertically-spaced from said first vertical surface and having mounted thereon a plurality of rollers adapted for rolling in said second roller tracks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.