Patent ID: 6592319
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
An apparatus for loading, storing, and unloading cargo upon a truck or trailer bed, the truck or trailer bed comprising a bed floor and a pivoting tailgate or side gate, the apparatus comprising:(a) left and right bed roller tracks, each having an upper surface, and a rearward end; (b) a load rack having a plurality of left and right wheels or rollers respectively positioned for alternate forward and rearward rolling motion over the upper surfaces of the left and right bed roller tracks; (c) left and right gate roller tracks, each having an upper surface, a forward end, and a rearward end; and (d) mounting means adapted for alternately extending the left and right gate roller tracks from the rearward ends of the left and right bed roller tracks, and displacing said gate roller tracks from their extended positions; the mounting means comprising left and right hinges, the left and right gate roller tracks respectively pivoting about the left and right hinges to retracted positions upon displacement from their extended positions; and further comprising left and right pivot stops adapted for respectively resisting pivoting motions of the left and right gate roller tracks upon full extensions of said roller tracks.