Latch and tailgate operating mechanism for truck bodies

• US 3,272,552 A
• Filed: 01/15/1964
• Issued: 09/13/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Park, Glenn S.
• Original Assignee: Park, Glenn S.
• Inventors: Park, Glenn S.
• Application Number:
  US04/337,853
• Time in Patent Office: 972 Days
• US Class Current: 296/56
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 33/0273 Movable tailboards for vehicles comprising non-movable sideboards, e.g. pick-up trucks B62D33/037 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65F 3/00 Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse vehicles in general B60; driving vehicle equipment or auxiliaries B60K; discharging contents by tilting entire vehicles B65G; wheeled apparatus for emptying sewers or cesspools E03F7/10

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION WITH A TRUCK BODY HAVING MOUNTED THEREON A PIVOTAL TAILGATE AND A PIVOTAL TAILGATE LATCH:

A LEVER INTERMEDIATELY PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON SAID BODY TO ROCK IN A VERTICAL PLANE, MECHANICAL CONNECTIONS EXTENDING FROM ONE END PORTION OF SAID LEVER TO THE LATCH FOR ACTUATING THE LATTER, AN HYDRAULIC JACK PIVOTALLY CARRIED BY THE OTHER END PORTION OF SAID LEVER AND EXTENDING TO AND ENGAGING THE TAILGATE, AND STOP MEANS RIGIDLY MOUNTED ON THE BODY FOR LIMITING THE ROCKING MOVEMENT OF SAID LEVER IN ONE DIRECTION DURING WHICH MOVEMENT THE MECHANICAL CONNECTIONS ACTUATE THE LATCH FOLLOWING WHICH THE JACK EXTENDS TO PIVOT THE TAILGATE.