Patent ID: 7234749
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. In a tailgate assembly for a pick-up truck including an inner panel and an outer panel defining an interior cavity therebetween, said tailgate being pivotally movable between an upright closed position and a lowered opened position, said tailgate assembly having a supplemental tailgate apparatus including shafts interconnected by a cross member, said shafts being received within said interior cavity of said tailgate assembly for extension from said interior cavity, said tailgate assembly further having a top portion and a bottom portion located below the top portion when said tailgate assembly is in said upright closed position, the improvement comprising: a transversely extending frame member positioned proximate to said top portion of said tailgate assembly, said transversely extending frame member defining at least one opening receiving said shafts of said supplemental tailgate apparatus; and a mounting bracket detachably connected to said frame member corresponding to each said opening therein, each said mounting bracket having a passageway therein aligned with the corresponding opening in said frame member, said mounting bracket attached to said transversely extending frame member supporting said supplemental tailgate apparatus when extended from said tailgate assembly.