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Pickup truck bed rail protector

Granted 11 Dec 2001 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bushwacker, Inc. · originally RealTruck

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Inventors: Gerald A. Logan · Examiner: Melody N. Brown · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
116517
filed 3 Jan 2000
Publication
Not published
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US D451878
granted 11 Dec 2001

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a…

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a first embodiment of a pickup truck bed rail protector constructed with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a right side view of the embodiment of FIG. 1, the left side being a mirror image of the right side;

FIG. 3 is a back view of the embodiment of FIG. 1, the front being a mirror image of the back;

FIG. 4 is a top view of a front half of a pickup truck bed rail protector, a back half being a mirror image of the front half;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the front half of a first configuration of the bottom of a pickup bed rail protector, a back half being a mirror image of the front half;

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the front half of a second configuration of the bottom of a pickup bed rail protector, the back half being a mirror image of the front half;

FIG. 7 is an isometric view of a second embodiment of a pickup bed rail protector constructed in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a right side view of the embodiment of FIG. 7, the left side being a mirror image of the right side;

FIG. 9 is a back view of the embodiment of FIG. 7, the front being a mirror image of the back;

FIG. 10 is an isometric view of a third embodiment of a pickup bed rail protector constructed in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a right side view of the embodiment of FIG. 10, the left side being a mirror image of the right side; and,

FIG. 12 is a back view of the embodiment of FIG. 10, the front being a mirror image of the back.

The broken lines shown in FIGS. 1-3 and 7-10 are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/221D12/98

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Examiner
Melody N. Brown
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