Drive system for flexible cover
CA 2004698 C · Owner: Michel, Walter · Inventors: Michel, Walter
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention relates to a motorized drive system for covering and uncovering the top of an open truck box or the like and comprises a laterally operated roll tube for winding and unwinding a flexible cover over the top of a truck box. One lateral edge of the cover is fixed to one side edge of the box opening and the other, lateral edge is attached to a roll tube. A reversible rotary motor rotates the roll tube, in conjunction with an extensible pivot arm and a cable return mechanism utilizing a tapered grooved sheave to provide constant tension and to facilitate smooth and consistent rectilinear movement of the roll tube for winding and unwinding of the cover.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 6, 1989 and granted May 12, 1992. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 6, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 6, 2011.
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