Patent ID: 8678469

Claim:
A fabric covering system for use on a vehicle cargo bed; which cargo bed comprises a left side wall and a right side wall, a front wall and a tail gate wall, which left side wall and right side wall, each accept and support an internal framework; a fabric covering system comprising the internal framework and a fabric; the internal framework being a rigid rectangular support comprising a series of interconnecting rails; the interconnecting rails comprising a front rail, a left rail, a right rail and a tail gate rail, and a series of cross support rails; the internal framework being retained onto the cargo bed by clamping the left rail to the left side wall, clamping the right rail to the right sidewall, and removably coupling the tail gate rail to and between the left rail and the right rail; the removably coupling comprising a spring loaded latching mechanism housed internally in outer edges of the tail gate rail so as to be operably latchable to the right rail and to the left rail by movement of a latch along a longitudinal axis of the tail gate rail transversely into at least one of the left side rail and the right side rail, and operatively unlatchable from at least one of the left side rail and right side rail by a reverse movement of the latch; the internal framework being spanned by the fabric cover; the fabric cover being attached to at least the front rail and the tail gate rail; the fabric cover being tensioned by coupling the tail gate rail to the left and right side rails, and de-tensioned by unlatching the tail gate rail from the left and right side rails.