Patent ID: 7216914

Claim:
A truck bed box having a floor upon which are mounted an upstanding back wall and upstanding sidewalls, said floor having a forward end extending to a front wall of a truck bed of a truck and a rearward end extending to a tailgate of the truck, four U-shaped frames formed of an inverted channel material with legs facing inwardly of the truck bed box, a first of said U-shaped frames mounted on the sidewalls over the floor at the forward end of the floor, a fourth of said U-shaped frames mounted on the sidewalls over the floor at the rearward end of the floor, a second and third of said U-shaped frames mounted on the sidewalls over the floor between said first and fourth U-shaped frames, a hatch hingedly attached to each of the first, second and third U-shaped frames, said hatches extending over the sidewalls and forming a top for the truck bed box, said truck bed box further comprising a first recessed paddle latch on each of the hatches attached to the first and second U-shaped frames, each said paddle latch having a cam that latches on one of the legs of an adjoining U-shaped frame, and a locking curved pawl/cam latch on the hatch hingedly attached to the third U-shaped frame that latches into a padlock eye attached to an interior side of the tailgate.