Patent ID: 8100615

Claim:
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 each having a generally rectilinear cross-section having a top portion, a bottom portion, first front end portion and an opposing second rear end portion and, each slide rail defining a medial channel communicating between the first front end portion and the second rear end portion and a slot defined in the bottom portion communicating between the first front end portion and the second rear end portion; a respective sliding gate block carried on each slide rail to move along a length of each slide rail, each sliding gate block defining a rail channel in a laterally outer side portion, the rail channel having a configuration that slidably engages with the top portion, the bottom portion and a laterally inner side portion of each slide rail, and a vertical fin at a bottom laterally outer portion that passes into and through the respective slot defined in the bottom portion of each slide rail; 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.