Truck bed liner
AssigneeDurakon Industries, Inc.
InventorJerald Gower
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Abstract
A one piece truck bed liner (30) for a cargo bed (12) of a pick-up truck (10) has a front lip (44) extending over and engaging a front rail (20) and has anchor pillars (40) extending into and engaging channels (24) in side rails (22) for positioning and affixing the bed liner onto the cargo bed. Structurally supportive ribs (42) are also spaced apart and a formed with the floor (32) and side walls (34) to form aligned channels (80) that retain a cargo divider spanning the floor (32) and dividing the floor into three distinct partitioned areas (86), (87), and (88).
Claims24
In a truck bed liner of having a floor, first and second side walls, and a front wall constructed to fit within a cargo bed of a truck, said cargo bed having a floor, a pair of opposing side rails laterally spaced from a central longitudinal axis, and a front rail, each side rail having an inner edge with a flange downwardly extending therefrom to define a channel under said side rail, said truck bed liner characterized by:
- said side walls having a top edge positionable at a height below a lower edge of said flange and having at least one anchor pillar extendable upwardly into said channel and engagable with a respective flange of a respective side rail;
- said pillar including a vertically disposed first pillar wall section that has a laterally positioned outer edge that is connected to said side wall;
- said wall section extending inwardly from said side wall toward said central longitudinal axis, and having an inner distal portion and a top portion that extends into said channel such that said inner distal portion in proximity to said top edge is abuttable to said downwardly depending flange inside said channel whereby said liner may be securely mounted in place within said truck bed.
In a truck bed liner having a floor, first and second side walls, and a front wall integrally formed as one piece, said liner constructed to fit within a cargo bed of a truck, said cargo bed having a floor, a pair of opposing side rails, each rail having an inner edge with a flange downwardly extending therefrom to define a channel under said rail, two wheel wells, and a front rail;
- said truck bed liner characterized by:
- integrally formed pillars formed as one piece with said liner, with said pillars vertically extending up said side walls of said liner, said pillars having side wall sections spaced apart and extending laterally inwardly and joined with a respective side wall at respective laterally outer edges;
- a spanning wall spaced inwardly and parallel to said side wall of said liner and joined with said spaced apart wall sections at respective laterally inner edges;
- said side wall sections and said spanning wall joining with said floor of said liner at respective lower edges;
- said side walls of said liner having an upper edge positioned vertically lower than said flange of said side rail and spaced laterally outwardly of said flange;
- said spanning wall having a top section extending vertically higher than the upper edge of said side wall and extendable into said channel and abuttable against said flange;
- said side wall sections of said pillar having a top edge that is sloped to meet with the upper edge of said side wall of said liner and a top edge of said spanning wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.