Panel rack for pick-up trucks
OwnerJames C. Oriinventor
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Abstract
A pick-up truck cargo bed material transport support system for the transportation of large panel material and the like within the cargo bed of a pick-up truck. An adjustable support rack is removably positioned within the cargo bed of a pick-up truck rearwardly of the rear wheel wells having multiple pivoted linkage arm support assembly extending onto the lowered tailgate of the cargo bed when in use. The support rack is collapsible when not in deployed use and combined with a secondary cross bed support beam positioned forward of the rear wheel wells provides a unique support material engagement system within the cargo bed for large panel-like or associated loads.
Claims5
A cargo material support for a cargo bed of a pick-up truck comprises,
- an adjustable material support fixture, a separate non-integral and independent cross bed-support beam,
- said adjustable material support fixture having a main cross-support beam extending transversely across said cargo bed, first and second longitudinally spaced pivot arms pivotally secured at their respective ends to and below said cross support beam inwardly of the respective ends of said cross support beam,
- a pair of material support arms pivotally secured to respective free ends of said first and second pivot arms in co-planar relation to said main cross-support beam defining a horizontal material support surface there between,
- vertically adjustable posts pivotally extending at right angles from the ends of said respective material support arms for axial post rotation, and a horizontally disposed base beam secured in fixed relation between the oppositely disposed ends said respective posts in parallel vertical spaced relation to said main cross-support beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.