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Pickup truck chest liner assembly

  • US 5,137,322 A
  • Filed: 11/27/1989
  • Issued: 08/11/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An insert for a pickup truck vehicle having a truck bed including a floor, a front wall, opposed side walls whose upper margins are defined by a downward extending bed rail, opposed wheel wells and a tailgate border opening, said insert comprising:

  • a unitarily formed insert having a protective liner portion and a storage chest portion, said liner and chest portions being connected therebetween by a supporting surface;

    said protective liner portion comprising a floor, an upper front wall, a lower front wall, opposed wheel well enclosures and a tailgate border opening;

    said storage chest portion comprising a bottom, opposed side walls, a front wall substantially narrower than the width between the truck bed side walls and a rear wall substantially lower than the chest front wall;

    said chest walls rising up at an angle greater than perpendicular from said bottom to form a compartment lip defined by an outward extending surface;

    said storage chest of the unitary insert being joined to the protective liner portion below an elevation defined by the downward extending bed rail;

    said supporting surface of the unitarily formed insert being further joined to the storage chest portion about the outward extending lip of said chest;

    said supporting surface including a channel, said channel being in communication with said lip of said chest;

    said supporting surface further comprising opposed flat surfaces traversing said joining of the supporting surface to the protective liner portion to said channel, such that said surface and said storage chest extend in width substantially the distance defined by the length between the opposed side walls at the front wall of said truck bed.

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