Vehicle tonneau cover clamp
CA 2219100 A1 · Owner: Global Accessories, Inc. · Inventors: Rippberger, Gary
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An improved tonneau cover clamp includes an inner clamp section for engaging a pickup truck bed sidewall an outer clamp section configured to hold a tonneau cover rail to the sidewall, and a cam handle section for selectively attaching the inner clamp section to the outer clamp section so as to provide a clamping force on the sidewall. The cam handle section is configured to engage one or both of the other two sections in such a manner as to facilitate adjustment between the two sections to adjust to top flanges of sidewalls having different thicknesses, thereby enabling a single clamp to be used with a variety of different truck brands and models.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 24, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 24, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 24, 2019.
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