Patents by Inventor Brent A. Price

Brent A. Price has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8118202
    Abstract: A cargo attachment bracket to be carried on an interior bed rail extending parallel to, and spaced down from, a top portion of a side of a pickup truck bed, comprising: a) a body having a front face, a rear face juxtaposed against the interior rail, and an opening extending between the front and rear face; b) a screw having a head portion, a shank portion extending through the opening between the front and rear face, and a lug for engagement within, and under an interior side portion of the rail for releasable attachment of the body to a chosen position along the length of the rail; c) an arm having a bracket end, and an opposite inwardly projecting end; d) an arm extension projecting from the unhinged end portion of the arm, configured together with the arm, and provided with selection and locking means for selection and lockably fixing the combined projection of the arm and the extension from the rail; and, e) a releasable cargo attachment end portion carried by the unattached end of the arm extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Patent number: 7464977
    Abstract: An elevating cargo support assembly configured to extend across and between a top portion of the two opposite sidewalls of the bed on a pickup truck comprising: i) a central cargo support member having a track extending along its lower side portion between its opposite end portions; ii) two slides positioned within, and carried by the track; iii) two pivoting arms, each having an inner end portion hingably and slidably attached to a different one of the slides in the track extending along the cargo support member, and each having an outer end portion hingably carried by the top portion of one of the sides of the bed on the pickup truck; and, iv) releasable slide lock to releasably lock each of the slides and a corresponding one of the pivoting arms in an opposite end portion of the central cargo support member to thereby maintain the central cargo support member in an elevated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Patent number: 6604898
    Abstract: A cargo anchor primarily intended for attachment to the upper edge of the side of an open bed truck, comprising a journal box and an integral clamping apparatus. The journal box comprises a base member, a cleat superimposed on the base member and screws for interconnecting the cleat to the base member. A transverse bore in at least one of either the base member or the cleat is disposed parallel to the planes of the base member and the cleat and is sized to carry a shaft or a “D” ring that functions to support load binding straps or ties. Integral with the journal box is a clamping device for attaching the journal box to a flat structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Publication number: 20010002973
    Abstract: A cargo anchor primarily intended for attachment to the upper edge of the side of an open bed truck, comprising a journal box and an integral clamping apparatus. The journal box comprises a base member, a cleat superimposed on the base member and screws for interconnecting the cleat to the base member. A transverse bore in at least one of either the base member or the cleat is disposed parallel to the planes of the base member and the cleat and is sized to carry a shaft or a “D” ring that functions to support load binding straps or ties. Integral with the journal box is a clamping device for attaching the journal box to a flat structural member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Patent number: 6196777
    Abstract: A cargo anchor primarily intended for attachment to the upper edge of the side of an open bed truck, comprising a journal box and an integral clamping apparatus. The journal box comprises a base member, a cleat superimposed on the base member and screws for interconnecting the cleat to the base member. A transverse bore in at least one of either the base member or the cleat is disposed parallel to the base member and the cleat and is sized to carry a shaft or a “D” ring that functions to support load binding straps or ties. Integral with the journal box is a clamping device for attaching the journal box to a flat structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Patent number: 5836490
    Abstract: A bicycle rack adapted to be installed in a truck bed defined by at least a floor, an upstanding forward end wall and at least one upstanding sidewall. The rack includes an elongated rod secured at one of its ends to the forward end wall of the truck bed while the other end of the rod is secured to the rearward portion of the sidewall. A pair of spaced apart wheel retaining bails are slidably carried by the rod so that the distance therebetween can be adjusted to accommodate the wheel base of different type of cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Inventor: Brent A. Price
  • Patent number: 5303858
    Abstract: A mounting rack for pickup trucks that have a cargo bed with upstanding lateral side walls where the rack includes a pair of base forming rails adapted to be surmounted on the top fenders of the truck cargo bed, a pair of rigid frames attached centrally to the respective rails in a position upstanding from the side walls or top fenders of the truck cargo bed and at least one cross beam interconnecting the uppermost portions of the said rigid frames. The rack further includes cargo support cradles shaped like "U" shaped bail members carried by each of the rails and projecting laterally from the cargo bed of the truck to support bikes or other additional cargo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Inventor: Brent A. Price