Truck slicker

Patent 5954388 Issued on September 21, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 19, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Liggett, Robert M.

Application

No. 820963 filed on 03/19/1997

US Classes:

296/136.03, Tonneau cover296/98Roll-up covers

Examiners

Primary: Pike, Andrew C.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Price, Heneveld, Cooper, DeWitt and Litton

International Class

B60J 011/00

Abstract

A pickup truck cab protective slicker assembly has an elongated housing positionable transversely of a pickup truck cargo box immediately behind the pickup truck cab and on the forward wall of the box. The assembly has an elongated upper outlet over its length, a flexible protective cover spring wound in the housing and extensible through the opening, an elongated latch bar on the leading edge of the cover, including a handle for pulling the cover out of the housing and over the cab and hood, latch orifices in the latch bar, and bracket studs attachable to the truck at the front of the hood, positioned and oriented to engage the latch orifices for releasably retaining the cover over the cab and hood.