System for securing a truck bed cover

A tonneau cover for the bed of a pickup truck having a front-end-wall, a tailgate, a right and a left side walls, said cover comprising:

• a. a folding frame sized to cover the bed of a pickup truck, said frame having a front-beam, a rear-beam, a right-beam and a left-beam, whereby said front-beam lays on the front-end-wall, said rear-beam lays on the tailgate, said right-beam lays on the right wall, and said left-beam lays on the left wall;
• b. multiplicity of cross beams connecting the left-beam to the right-beam to provide rigidity and utility, and wherein a front-cross-beam being parallel with and having a prescribed distance from said front-beam beam, and a rear-cross-beam being parallel with and having a prescribed distance from said rear-beam;
• c. said front-cross-beam having a left end being engaged with said left-beam and a right end being engaged with said right-beam;
• d. said rear-cross-beam having a left end being engaged with said left-beam and a right end being engaged with said right-beam, a central section;
• e. a soft cover extending over said frame;
• f. a set of adjustable front-locking means attached onto said left end and said right end of said front-cross-beam;
• g. a set of rear-latching mechanism comprising,
• i. a set of latches attached onto said left end and said right end of said rear-cross-beam, each said latches having a catch and a releasing-tongue to release the catch of the latch upon pulling;
• ii. a set of cables, a cable-handle, and multiplicity of guiding-spools, wherein one end of each said cable being attached to the latch releasing-tongue and the other end of each said cable being attached to one end of said cable-handle;
• iii. said guiding-spools being installed in said central section of said rear-cross-beam, whereby said guiding-spools guide said each cable along the rear-cross-beam from the latch releasing-tongue to the central section of the rear-cross-beam and then towards the cable-handle;
• iv. said cable handle having two ends, one end of said cable handle being attached to the center of said rear-beam, and the other end of the cable handle being connected to said set of cables;
• and
• v. a set of bracket means installed onto the truck bed side walls to engage with the catch of each said latch to lock in the cover,
• whereby all said latches can be released at the same time by pulling said cable handle.