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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1985
David M Reed, Mesa, AZ (US);
Other;
Abstract
A cover for the bed of a pickup truck. The cover can be utilized either as a tensioned cover attached to the upper edges of the walls of the truck bed to span the floor of the bed or can be utilized as a collapsible tent erected in the truck bed. The cover includes an articulated support frame adapted to be assembled to enclose and define a chamber and to be disassembled for compact storage; a first sheet of pliable material having a pair of opposed side edges adapted for detachable connection to the walls of the bed of a truck to tension the first sheet in horizontal orientation over the floor of the truck bed; a second sheet of pliable material attached to the first sheet and having an outer edge adapted to be connected to one of the bed walls; and, a third sheet of pliable material attached to the first sheet and having an outer edge adapted to be connected to one of the bed walls. The second and third sheets are folded inside the bed walls beneath the first sheet when the opposed side edges of the first sheet are connected to the bed walls to tension the first sheet over the floor of the truck bed. The first, second and third sheets fit over the frame with the outer edges of the second and third sheets connected to the bed wall when the opposed side edges of the first sheet are disconnected from the bed walls and the frame is assembled in the truck bed beneath the first, second and third sheets.