Patent ID: 8075240

Claim:
A tarping or strapping system for placing a tarp having four opposite corners or straps down onto a load on a flatbed trailer, the system comprising: a beam having opposite first and second ends and adapted to be mountable at said first end of said beam to a fork carriage of a forklift so as to be elevatable along with the carriage upon elevation of the carriage, an oppositely disposed pair of rigid elongate primary support members, each having opposite first and second ends, mounted at said first ends to said beam so as to extend perpendicularly and substantially horizontally therefrom in oppositely disposed directions, a pair of rigid, elongate secondary support members mounted at said second ends of each of said primary support members so as to extend therefrom substantially parallel with said beam and substantially co-planar with said beam and said primary support members, said pair of secondary support members having opposite distal ends on each secondary support member of said pair of secondary support members, tarp suspension means mounted on said distal ends of said secondary support members for suspending the four opposite corners of the tarp therefrom so as to suspend the tarp below said beam, and said primary and secondary support members.