Patent ID: 8814249

Claim:
A tonneau cover for the bed of a pickup truck having a front-end-wall, a tailgate, a right and a left side walls, said cover comprising: a. a folding frame sized to cover the bed of a pickup truck, said frame having a front-beam, a rear-beam, a right-beam and a left-beam, whereby said front-beam lays on the front-end-wall, said rear-beam lays on the tailgate, said right-beam lays on the right wall, and said left-beam lays on the left wall; b. multiplicity of cross beams connecting the left-beam to the right-beam to provide rigidity and utility, and wherein a front-cross-beam being parallel with and having a prescribed distance from said front-beam beam, and a rear-cross-beam being parallel with and having a prescribed distance from said rear-beam; c. said front-cross-beam having a left end being engaged with said left-beam and a right end being engaged with said right-beam; d. said rear-cross-beam having a left end being engaged with said left-beam and a right end being engaged with said right-beam, a central section; e. a soft cover extending over said frame; f. a set of adjustable front-locking means attached onto said left end and said right end of said front-cross-beam; g. a set of rear-latching mechanism comprising, i. a set of latches attached onto said left end and said right end of said rear-cross-beam, each said latches having a catch and a releasing-tongue to release the catch of the latch upon pulling; ii. a set of cables, a cable-handle, and multiplicity of guiding-spools, wherein one end of each said cable being attached to the latch releasing-tongue and the other end of each said cable being attached to one end of said cable-handle; iii. said guiding-spools being installed in said central section of said rear-cross-beam, whereby said guiding-spools guide said each cable along the rear-cross-beam from the latch releasing-tongue to the central section of the rear-cross-beam and then towards the cable-handle; iv. said cable handle having two ends, one end of said cable handle being attached to the center of said rear-beam, and the other end of the cable handle being connected to said set of cables; and v. a set of bracket means installed onto the truck bed side walls to engage with the catch of each said latch to lock in the cover, whereby all said latches can be released at the same time by pulling said cable handle.