Patent ID: 6017074
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
In a minivan motor vehicle having a driver's seat and a first passenger's seat located adjacent said driver's seat and having a cargo carrying area provided with additional passenger seats removably mounted to a horizontal floor portion of the vehicle located to the rear of said drivers seat and said first passenger's seat, said minivan motor vehicle including a tailgate at its rear end and a pair of laterally spaced side walls, said cargo carrying area being covered by a carpet and being bordered by said pair of laterally spaced side walls and said tailgate of said vehicle and the rear of said driver's and first passenger's seats, a removable liner adapted to cover said carpet in said cargo carrying area so as to protect said carpet from being soiled or damaged when said additional passenger seats are removed from said cargo carrying area, said removable liner including a pair of elongated side-by-side horizontally aligned and rigid panels each of which extends longitudinally of the vehicle the full length of said cargo carrying area and has an outer side edge and an inner side edge extending along the length of the associated panel, said liner being positioned onto said carpet of said cargo carrying area so that the inner side edge of each of said panels extends longitudinally of said vehicle and is located in close proximity to the inner side edge of the adjacent panel while the outer edge of each of said pair of panels conforms in configuration to the adjacent side wall of said vehicle so as to provide a flat planar uninterrupted surface onto which cargo can be supported.