Curt Manufacturing, LLC

S. C. Johnson Son, Inc.

Actuant Corporation

Other

Robert G Fehr

Joel D Diller

Wolfe C Parzyck

Peter M Neumann

Scott A Olson

Christopher L Peterson

Paul J C Fransen

David J Keyes

Katie A Remaly

Andrew Jerald Janetski

Brennan Druckrey

Micah L Maraia

David J Prince

Robert C Martineau

Natalie M Wieberdink

David Lloyd Wiesemann

Jeremy Frank Knopow

David James Prince

Patrick J Radle

Nancy L Broen

Matthew J Forst

Anthony W Gilbert

Aaron J Munsinger

John J O'Hara

Milton W Erickson

Derek D Erickson

Milt Erickson

Martin William Stone

Richard Graceffa

Graham A Motzing

Sergio Reyes Salgado

Aaron Munsinger

Thomas H Van Hoozer, Jr

Raymond C Sulin

Eugene Placzkowski

A hitch tightener is used around the lip of a hitch receiver tube and a shank inserted into the hitch receiver tube. The hitch tightener has a U-bolt with two threaded legs, and a crossbar with throughholes for the legs of the U-bolt, positioned so the crossbar and the U-bolt encircle the shank and the receiver tube lip. A standard threaded nut holds the crossbar onto one of the legs, and a cam lock lever is pivotally attached on the other leg by a threaded trunnion nut. When the cam lock lever is pivoted from its opened position to its closed position, it moves the crossbar toward the connecting portion of the clamp component, tightening the hitch tightener around shank and lip.

Anti-rattle hitch tightener

A bicycle mount which mounts a bicycle longitudinally over the bed rail of a pickup truck. A carriage of the bicycle mount supports the wheels of the bicycle above it. A pivot arm and hook is used as a primary vertical support for the bicycle, with the pivot arm mounted using slide channels of the carriage to allow both longitudinal and pivoting motion. The hooks is extendable on the pivot arm to support an upper section of the bicycle frame. A mounting system for the carriage is provided allows the carriage to mount into stake pockets of the bed rail, adjustable to accommodate different length bed rails and different stake pocket spacing on different pickup trucks.

Bed rail bicycle mount

A headache rack is formed substantially from sheet metal, including left and right uprights as part of a framing portion supporting a screen. The forward edge of the uprights has a concave curvature facing the cab and providing a cantilever, and a folded rearward edge causing the uprights to be considerably wider where they contact the pickup truck bed walls than they are at their tops. The framing portion is provided in three separable sections, connectable by the user using fasteners such as nuts and bolts, with a removable screen in the center frame portion.

Headache rack

Frame portion of headache rack

Screen of headache rack

A stake pocket anchor attaches an accessory to a vehicle stake pocket. The stake pocket anchor includes an anchor assembly hung from a tensioning member. The anchor assembly includes two channel members slidably attached to sandwich a center block, with an angled slide direction that enables sliding either upwardly and inwardly to a minimum anchor assembly width or downwardly and outwardly to a maximum anchor assembly width. During use, the anchor assembly gravitationally releases to its maximum anchor assembly width after being inserted through the stake pocket opening. The tensioning member is then used to vertically raise the anchor assembly within the stake pocket until a top of the anchor assembly contacts a bottom surface of the lip and thereafter allows further tightening of the anchor assembly against the bottom surface of the lip.

Stake pocket anchor

A hollow tubular shape is extruded from aluminum and used as a basic building block for one or more different truck accessories, such as a side step, grill guard and headache rack. The outside of the hollow tubular shape provides flat surfaces and angled edges over most of its periphery, including a major wall and several side walls. An attachment wall opposite the major wall includes attachment slides that enable the extrusion to be attached in numerous configurations, including to attachment brackets. The interior of the extruded hollow tubular shape includes openings to receive end caps.

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Colfax, WI, United States of America

Robert G Fehr