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US 5,857,729 AGranted
Pick-up truck cover
OwnerDonald E. Bogardinventor
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A lockable, light-weight pick-up truck tonneau cover comprised of a pair of pivotally connected panels which are rotatable about a common transverse axis. A distinguishing feature of the cover is that the panels generally consist of a continuous wall with narrow transverse depressions in top and bottom portions of the wall. The depressions divide the panels into a pluality of transverse cells which extend substantially across the widths of the panels. The panels are attached to the pick-up truck with a pair of slotted brackets which engage short inward extending mounting posts which are attached to the cargo box. At the four outer corners of the cover are hand operated latches for selectively retaining the panels in covering relationship to the cargo box. Adjacent to two of latches are key operated locks for selectively preventing releases of the adjacent latches. A secondary latch mounted to the underside of the rear panel restricts opening of the panel to a small amount when the panel is acted upon by aerodynamic forces and the panel's latch is inadvertently not engaged. A catch mounted on the truck's tailgate prevents opening of the tailgate when the rear panel is closed.
In a pick-up truck having a chassis-mounted cargo box comprising a generally horizontal floor and a generally vertical wall structure cooperating with said floor to form a cargo space which is bounded on the bottom by said floor and laterally by said vertical wall structure, but which is open at the top, said vertical wall structure including a gate which is movable from a position laterally bounding said cargo space to a position which does not laterally bound the cargo space, and a cover cooperating with the open top of the cargo box to selectively cover and uncover said cargo space, the improvement which comprises:
A cover for enclosing a cargo box of a pick-up truck comprising:
A cover for enclosing a cargo box of a pick-up truck comprising a relatively rigid, but relatively light-weight generally rectangular panel, said panel having spaced apart, upper, lower, side and bottom portions of a substantially continuous wall, said upper and lower portions having a plurality of narrow elongated transverse depressions which divide said panel into a plurality of transverse cells which extend substantially across the entire width of said panel;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.