Patents by Inventor Edwin L. Nix

Edwin L. Nix 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: 4336963
    Abstract: A truck bed liner including an integrally formed bottom wall, front wall and opposed side walls, in which each of the opposed side walls, and preferably the front wall, terminate in top edge portions forming outwardly projecting hook-shaped flanges adapted to snap-fasten over the corresponding top ledges and free rims of the corresponding side walls and front wall of a truck bed within which the liner fits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Inventors: Edwin L. Nix, Bobby E. Davenport
  • Patent number: 4181349
    Abstract: A truck bed liner comprising a tailgate liner having top and bottom hook-shaped flanges adapted to conform to and receive the top and bottom edge surfaces of the tailgate of a truck bed so that the tailgate liner may be snap-fastened to cover the interior surface of the tailgate, without any separate or independent fastener members.The truck bed liner also includes transversely spaced longitudinal rib members having widthwise dimensions greater than the width of any longitudinal rib members on the bottom wall of a truck bed, to provide longitudinal ventilation spaces between the bottom wall of the truck bed liner and the bottom wall of the truck bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Inventors: Edwin L. Nix, Bobby E. Davenport
  • Patent number: 4161335
    Abstract: A truck bed liner comprising a tailgate liner having top and bottom hook-shaped flanges adapted to conform to and receive the top and bottom edge surfaces of the tailgate of a truck bed so that the tailgate liner may be snap-fastened to cover the interior surface of the tailgate, without any separate or independent fastener members.The truck bed liner also includes transversely spaced longitudinal rib members having widthwise dimensions greater than the width of any longitudinal rib members on the bottom wall of a truck bed, to provide longitudinal ventilation spaces between the bottom wall of the truck bed liner and the bottom wall of the truck bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Inventors: Edwin L. Nix, Bobby E. Davenport