JP3120946U - Truck carrier cover device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cover device for covering a load loaded on a truck bed so as not to be exposed to rain or snow, and capable of being opened and loaded from any side of the bed.
SOLUTION: A plurality of frames 4, 4,... Convexly straddling both upper bars 6a, 6b separated by a predetermined distance are attached and a sheet 5 is coated on the frames 4, 4,. A lower beam 7 is arranged below the upper beam 6, and the upper and lower frames 6, 7 are connected via a hinge 8, and the lower beam 7a, 7b is below the edge beam 10a, 10b of the loading platform 3. The fitting members 9a and 9b opened so that they can be fitted to each other are fixed.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a cover device for covering a load on a truck bed, in particular, a load loaded on a light truck bed.

  The truck is a vehicle for loading and transporting luggage, and for this purpose, a large loading platform is provided behind the driver's seat. Depending on what is loaded, there are many trucks that have a cover attached to the carrier so that they do not hit the rain during rainy weather, and there are various types of cover devices. The simplest and rudimentary cover device is a sheet that can cover a loaded luggage. A rubber string is attached to the edge of the sheet and can be locked to a key provided on the loading platform.

  However, when such a single sheet is covered, not only is the troublesome work of manually removing the sheet one by one when unloading the cargo from the truck bed, but also rainwater adhering to the sheet or Dust and so on hang down, so that not only the truck bed but also the luggage gets wet. Further, when the seat is covered with sudden rain falling during transportation, there is a problem that the seat covering work is troublesome especially in the case of a single rider of the driver, and the baggage gets wet during that time.

According to Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-47435, “top cover opening / closing device for truck bed”
A plurality of portal struts fixed to the hood cover are supported so as to be movable back and forth along the left and right rails fixed to the truck bed via rollers attached to the lower ends of the left and right side pillars. In addition, the plurality of portal struts are connected to each other through the pantograph-type link mechanism 7 at the front and rear, and a plurality of rope-like strings extending forward and backward along the left and right sides of the truck bed. The hood cover can be switched between a cover-covered state and a cover-closed state by a pulling operation.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-227520 discloses a “truck cargo bed sheet” that allows the front upper portion of the cargo bed to be easily and reliably covered with a sheet without removing the sheet from the take-up roll of the sheet take-up device. .

 The upper surface position where the rear end of the winding sheet portion is separated from the front end of the seat by the length of the front suspension part so that the front suspension part for covering the upper part of the front plate of the track is left in the front end part of the sheet. Secure to. A hook metal fitting is attached to the front end of the winding start sheet portion via a belt, and the hook metal fitting is hooked on the take-up roll, whereby the sheet is connected to the take-up roll via the winding start sheet portion. When the sheet is put on the loading platform, the upper part of the front plate can be easily covered with the front hanging part of the sheet that hangs down from the vicinity of the fixing position of the winding start sheet part without removing the sheet from the take-up roll.

In addition to this, various cover devices that can be mounted on a truck bed and cover a loaded cargo are known. However, these cover devices are complicated in structure and high in manufacturing cost, and are troublesome in loading and unloading loads on the loading platform.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2005-47435 “Truck Cover Opening Device” "Sheet for truck bed" according to JP-A-11-227520

  As described above, the conventional truck bed cover device has the above-described problems. The problems to be solved by the present invention are these problems, and provide a cover device that prevents rainwater from accumulating on the seat and can be opened from either side of the loading platform.

  The truck bed cover device according to the present invention is mounted on the truck bed in a convex shape with a raised central portion. In addition, the structure can be mounted simply by placing it on the cargo bed. A plurality of frames that are curved in a convex shape are attached across the upper rails at a distance corresponding to the width of the truck bed, and a sheet is covered with the frames as a support. A lower beam is provided below the upper beam, and the upper beam and the lower beam are connected via a joint such as a hinge.

  Joints such as hinges are provided at least at both ends of the upper and lower bars, so that the cover device can be swiveled around one joint and the other upper and lower bars are lifted. A fitting member is attached to the lower rail, and this fitting member is adapted to fit on the edge rail of the truck bed. Therefore, in the cover device of the present invention, the fitting members attached to the lower side bars are detachably attached to the edge bars of the cargo bed.

  The cover device according to the present invention is characterized in that it can be opened from either side of the truck bed. Therefore, instead of the lower rail, a bracket is attached via a joint, and the bracket is attached to the edge rail of the cargo bed. A structure that can be attached. The shape of the bracket is a substantially U shape with an opening at the bottom, and is positioned by being fitted to an edge rail of the loading platform. In this case, the base metal fitting is fixed to the edge rail of the loading platform, the bracket is fitted into the fitting space formed in the upper portion, and the pinning structure is used to prevent the floating.

  The cover device of the loading platform according to the present invention covers the seat on the convexly curved frame, so that the load loaded on the loading platform does not get wet by rain, and rain water accumulates on the seat or snow does not accumulate Absent. The cover device can be mounted without specially processing the truck bed. That is, it has a structure that can be easily attached by fitting fitting members fixed to both lower bars to both edge bars of the loading platform. Similarly, when the U-shaped bracket is attached to the upper beam via a joint, the bracket is fitted and attached to the cargo bed edge beam.

  Since the upper beam is mounted on the lower beam or the bracket and is connected via a joint such as a hinge, the upper and lower beams on the opposite side can be swung around the one side joint. Can be lifted. For this purpose, the cover device can be lifted and opened from either the left or right side of the truck bed, which is convenient for loading and unloading loads.

  FIG. 1 is an embodiment of the present invention showing a state in which a cover device is mounted on a cargo bed. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a light truck, and 2 denotes a cover device. The cover device of the present invention has a structure that can be lifted and opened by an operator by hand, and is heavy on a large truck, so the target is mainly a light truck.

  The light truck 1 has a cargo bed 3 behind the driver's seat. The cargo bed 3 can be loaded and transported, and the luggage device 3 is provided with the cover device 2 so that the cargo does not get wet. It is installed. The cover device 2 has a convex shape with a raised central portion, a structure in which a plurality of curved frames 4, 4... Are covered with a seat 5 and can be opened from any side of the loading platform 3. It is configured so that it can.

  2A is a front view of the light truck 1, and FIG. 2B is a rear view (right side view). The convexly curved frames 4, 4,... Straddle the upper side rails 6a, 6b. The seat 5 is attached so as to cover the frames 4, 4. And lower rails 7a and 7b are provided below the upper beams 6a and 6b, and the upper beam 6a and the lower beam 7a are connected by hinges 8a and 8a. Similarly, the upper beam 6b and the lower beam 7b are connected by hinges 8b and 8b.

  A fitting member 9a is fixed to the lower beam 7a, and a fitting member 9b is fixed to the lower beam 7b. The fitting members 9a and 9b are U-shaped parts opened at the lower side, and can be fitted to the edge rails 10a and 10b of the loading platform 3. Here, the side edges 10 a and 10 b are edges provided at the upper end of the side plate that stands vertically from the floor surface of the loading platform 3. FIG. 3 shows the left side where the cover device 2 is mounted on the loading platform 3. An upper beam 6a is attached to the frame 4, and a lower beam 7a is provided below the upper beam 6a via a hinge 8a. Are arranged. A fitting member 9 a is welded to the lower beam 7 a, and the fitting member 9 a is fitted to the edge beam 10 a of the loading platform 3. Accordingly, the cover device 2 is not displaced and will not be detached from the loading platform 3 unless it floats.

  The right side of the cover device 2 has the same structure. For this reason, the cover device 2 is mounted on the edge rails 10a and 10b of the loading platform 2. Therefore, the cover device 2 can be opened and closed via a hinge 8 connecting the upper beam 6 and the lower beam 7. 4 shows a case where the cover device 2 is opened. FIG. 4A shows a case where the right side of the cargo bed 3 is opened, and FIG. 4B shows a case where the left side of the cargo bed 3 is opened.

  Thus, since the cover apparatus 2 of the present invention can be opened on either the left or right side, it is convenient to load and unload luggage. That is, it is possible to load and unload luggage without changing the direction of the truck. Since the fitting member 9 is only fitted to the edge rail 10 of the loading platform 3, it can be detached from the edge rail 10 by lifting.

  As described above, since the cover device 2 is placed on the edge rails 10a and 10b of the loading platform 3, when the light truck 1 travels, it may lack stability, and the upper rails 6a and 6b The rubber cords 11, 11,... Are attached, and the rubber cords 11, 11,... Are locked to the keys 12, 12,.

  On the rear side of the cover device 2, the rear seat 13 is attached, and the rubber strings 11, 11... Attached to the lower edge portion of the rear seat 13 are locked to the keys 12, 12. Therefore, when the cover device 2 is opened, the rubber straps 11, 11,... Are removed from the keys 12, 12,.

  The cover device of the present invention is characterized in that it can be opened from either side of the cargo bed, and is not limited to the above embodiment. FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the present invention. This corresponds to FIG. 3 in the figure, and a bracket 14 is swingably attached to the lower side of the upper rail 6 via a joint 15. The bracket 14 has a U shape with an opening at the bottom, and is fitted to the edge rail 10 of the loading platform 3.

  A base metal fitting 16 is fixed to the edge rail 10 of the loading platform 3 with screws or the like, and the bracket 14 is attached to the base metal fitting 16. A fitting space is formed at the center of the base metal fitting 16, and the bracket 14 is fitted and positioned in this fitting space. Here, a protrusion 17 is provided on the surface of the base metal fitting 16 and the bracket 14, and a pin hole 18 passes through the protrusion 17. A pin 19 is inserted into the pin hole 18.

  By the way, the base metal fitting 16 having a U-shaped cross section is fixed by being fitted to the edge rail 10, and the bracket 14 is fitted into the fitting space of the base metal fitting 16 and fitted to the edge rail 10 so that the bracket 14 is supported by the loading edge frame. 10 is positioned. If the pin 19 is inserted into the base metal 16 and the pin hole 18 of the bracket 14, the bracket 14 is fixed without being lifted.

  When opening the cover device 2, if the pin 19 is removed and the upper beam 6 is lifted, the bracket 14 opens away from the loading platform frame 10. Conversely, when closing the cover device 2, the bracket 14 is fitted into the edge rail 10 and the pin 19 is inserted into the pin hole 18 by fitting into the fitting space of the base metal fitting 16. Here, the connecting means between the bracket 14 and the base metal fitting 16 is not limited to the pin 19, and the shape of the base metal fitting 16 is not limited to that shown in FIG.

A light truck equipped with a cover device according to the present invention. The front view and back view of the light truck which attached the cover apparatus. The left part detail drawing of a cover apparatus. When the cover device is opened. The left part detail drawing of a cover apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Light truck 2 Cover apparatus 3 Loading platform 4 Frame 5 Seat 6 Upper crosspiece 7 Lower crosspiece 8 Hinge 9 Fitting member
10 Edge pier
11 Rubber strap
12 keys
13 Rear seat
14 Bracket
15 Fitting
16 Base bracket
17 Projection
18 pin hole
19 pin

Claims (4)

In a cover device that covers the load loaded on the truck bed so that it will not be exposed to rain or snow, a plurality of convexly curved frames are mounted across the upper rails at a predetermined distance, and the frame is covered with a sheet The lower beam is placed under the upper beam and the upper and lower beams are connected via a joint such as a hinge, and the lower beam is opened so that the lower frame can be fitted to the edge beam of the loading platform. A track carrier cover device characterized by fixing the fitted member. 2. The truck bed cover apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a rubber string that can be locked to a key of the cargo bed is connected to the upper rail. In a cover device that covers the load loaded on the truck bed so that it will not be exposed to rain or snow, a plurality of convexly curved frames are mounted across the upper rails at a predetermined distance, and the frame is covered with a sheet In addition, a bracket is swingably attached to the upper rail via a joint, and the bracket is formed with an opening so that it can be attached directly to the edge rail of the loading platform or indirectly via a base bracket. The truck bed cover device. The bracket has a U-shape with an opening at the bottom, and a base bracket with a fitting space formed on the upper side is fixed to the edge rail of the loading platform, and the bracket is fitted in the fitting space of the base bracket to perform horizontal positioning. 4. The truck bed cover apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the cover is pinned so as not to float.

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