Patent ID: 8087709

Claim:
A truck bed extender for use with a pickup truck having a bed with a longitudinal centerline, a bed floor with spaced floor bores equidistant from said centerline and aligned transverse to said centerline, a vertical front wall at the front of the bed floor, opposed side walls along each side of the bed floor, and a tailgate having a raised vertical position and a lowered horizontal position hinged at the rear of the bed floor comprising: a) first and second telescoping extension arms, each arm having an inner end and an outer end with a crossbar connector; b) hinge assemblies pivotally attaching the inner ends of said extension arms to said bed floor, said hinge assemblies including an eyebolt having an eye and a shank insertable into a floor bore, a yoke attached to the inner end of an extension arm and spaced yoke ears with aligned bores positionable on either side of said eyebolt, and a latching pin or bolt insertable through said ear bores and said eyebolt eye; and c) a crossbar attached to the said crossbar connectors, wherein said bed extender is pivotal between a rearward horizontal orientation against said tailgate when said tailgate is in its lowered position and a forward horizontal orientation against said bed floor, said extender extending rearwardly beyond the tailgate when in the rearward horizontal orientation.