Patent ID: 7052070

Claim:
A device for filling the crack that forms in a pickup truck or other vehicle when the attached tailgate is lowered from a vertical position to a horizontal position, which crack filler comprises: a device having three sections, two of which may be mirror images, which three sections are a left section, a center section and a right section, the center section being an elongated member of a rectilinear cross section, having a front, back and top and bottom surfaces, and two end faces, each of which end faces has a recess therein configured to receive a similarly configured insert, the left and right sections, also being of a generally rectilinear cross section, and having a cutout pattern at the exterior end thereof, and an insert at the interior end thereof outwardly disposed and configured to be received by a recess of the center section for the engagement therewith; said device having a top to bottom elevation that substantially matches the elevation of the tailgate of the truck model for which it is intended and a front to back thickness that is slightly smaller than the width of the tailgate crack of the truck model for which the device is intended.