Patent ID: 8303221
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: B60P,B60R

Abstract:
1. An assembly for providing means to secure items within a cargo bed having a floor, a front end and a rear end, the assembly comprising a base sheet sized to fit within the cargo bed, horizontally on the floor thereof and being generally rectangular with two mutually parallel side edges of equal length and two mutually parallel edges of equal length, constituting a front edge and a rear edge, the base sheet comprising a plurality of round perforations formed normal to a surface of the base sheet and in an array of rows and columns, the rows being generally parallel to the side edges and the columns being generally parallel to the front and rear edges, the perforations in said array being uniformly spaced a predetermined distance within each row and uniformly spaced the same distance within each column, and means to tie the base sheet to the cargo bed, and at least one vertical sheet, being generally flat and rectangular with two flat parallel side surfaces separated by a thickness and with four straight edges with a width the same as the sheet thickness, comprising mutually parallel top and bottom edges and two mutually parallel side edges, and having a plurality of round peg holes formed in at least the bottom edge, the peg holes being normal to a surface of the bottom edge, parallel to a plane of the vertical sheet and spaced the same predetermined distance apart as the spacing of the base sheet perforations within each row and column, and the assembly further comprising a plurality of round straight pegs each of which is formed and assembled with a portion inserted into one of the vertical sheet peg holes and with a portion protruding from the vertical sheet hole, the protruding portion sized to be insertable into the base sheet perforations, and the portion of the pegs protruding from the bottom edge of each of the vertical sheets being inserted into an equal plurality of the perforations in the base sheet, whereby each of said vertical sheets is joined to the base sheet in a vertical orientation relative to the horizontal base sheet.