Patent ID: 6641013
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: B60R,Y10S

Abstract:
In combination with a pick-up truck having a cab and a cargo bed having a front wall adjacent the truck cab, a pair of laterally spaced parallel and vertical side walls having top surface edges spaced above bottom edges integral with a bottom wall extending rearward with said side walls from said front wall to rear edges lying in a common plane and a tailgate pivotally mounted on the rear edge of one of said side rails or said rearward edge of said bottom wall and selectively deployable between open and closed positions to define a quadrilateral cargo compartment there-between, a secure storage system detachably mounted within the confines of the quadrilateral cargo compartment of the pick-up truck cargo bed for storing tools of various kinds while providing a flat work surface flush with the top surface edges of said side walls of the pick-up truck cargo bed, said storage system comprising:a) a pair of laterally spaced elongated storage boxes, each having a pivotal top lid thereon deployable between open and closed positions which lie flush with the top surface of the associated side wall when closed, each said elongated storage box having an outer wall, an inner wall and opposed end walls, said outer wall being detachably mounted within said cargo compartment to an associated side wall; b) a center array of multiple independent storage boxes disposed between the inner walls of said elongated storage boxes and extending tandem-like from said front wall of said cargo compartment to the rear edges thereof defined by said side walls and said bottom wall, each of said independent storage boxes having integral spaced end walls adjacent the associated inner walls of said elongated storage boxes, a rear wall, and a front wall; and a pivotally mounted lid operatively associated with each said independent storage box of said center array and selectively deployable between open and closed condition of the associated storage box; and c) means for independently locking said elongated side storage boxes, said center array of storage boxes and said tailgate in closed condition to secure the contents of said quadrilateral cargo compartment.