Patent ID: 7946457

Claim:
A truck rack for mounting to the sidewalls of a cargo box of a pickup truck, comprising: a pair of upright front supports of a thickness approximately matched to the thickness of said sidewalls and spaced apart so as to be positioned to be mounted upon a respective cargo box sidewall at a forward end of the cargo box; a pair of upright rear supports of a thickness approximately matched to the thickness of said sidewalls spaced apart so as to be mounted upon respective sidewalls; a pair of elongated top side rails each connected atop said rear and forward supports to be mounted on a respective side of said cargo box; a plurality of cross members extending transversely between said side rails, each cross member having opposite ends connected to a respective top side rail to form a unitary rack structure; each of said front and rear supports and said top side rails including an interior rigid metal tube extending within and completely enclosed by a hollow respective outer shell, said interior tube in said front and rear supports each attached at a bottom end to a mounting piece adapted to be attached to said one of said cargo box sidewalls and affixed at a top end to a top mounting piece; said side rails interior tubes each connected to said top mounting piece affixed to said top end of said interior tube of each of said front and rear supports; said connected interior tubes of said upright supports and said top side rails together forming a metal framework supporting said plurality of cross members attached at either end to said interior tube of each of said top side rails; said outer shells enclosing a respective front and rear support substantially elongated in a lengthwise direction along said cargo box sidewalls to be substantially longer than said interior tubes in said lengthwise direction, and having a streamlined tapered shape comprised of opposite sides of each of said outer shells enclosing a respective front and rear support converging at a rear end portion of said shells; and said top side rails outer shells each having at least portions thereof enlarged to be of a greater height than said interior tubes of said top side rails.