Patent ID: 8100615
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: B60P

Abstract:
1. A load securing and moving apparatus for a truck bed having first and second inner side walls, a front wall and a truck bed floor, the load securing and moving apparatus comprising in combination: a first slide rail carried on the truck bed first inner side wall proximate an upper edge of the truck bed first inner side wall and a second slide rail carried on the truck bed second inner side wall proximate an upper edge of the truck bed second inner side wall, the first slide rail and the second slide rail a respective sliding gate block carried on each slide rail to move along a length of each slide rail, each sliding gate block an endless loop moving means for moving each sliding gate block along the length of the first slide rail and the length of the second slide rail, the endless loop moving means carried within the medial channel defined by each slide rail and releasably interconnected to the vertical fin of each sliding gate block extending into and through the slot defined in the bottom portion of each slide rail; a rotation means carried proximate the first front end portion of each slide rail communicating with the endless loop moving means and a rotation means carried proximate the second rear end portion of each slide rail communicating with the endless loop moving means; one drive shaft communicating between the first front end portion of the first slide rail and the first front end portion of the second slide rail to communicate movement of the endless loop moving means within the medial channel of the first slide rail to the endless loop moving means within the medial channel of the second slide rail; and a removable gate extending between the sliding gate block carried on the first slide rail and the sliding gate block carried on the second slide rail.