Apparatus for converting a pickup truck into a side compartmented utility service truck with flip-top closures

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A CONVENTIONAL PICKUP TRUCK LOAD BODY OF THE STEPSIDE-TYPE INCLUDING UPSTANDING LONGITUDINAL SIDES FROM WHICH THE CONVENTIONAL CORRESPONDING REAR FENDERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED, A BODY CONSTRUCTION ADAPTED TO BE USED IN PAIRS FOR CONVERTING THE FENDERLESS LOAD BODY INTO A UTILITY SERVICE-TYPE OF BODY, SAID BODY CONSTRUCTION COMP RISING AN UPRIGHT AND HORIZONTALLY ELONGATED SIDE COMPARTMENT HOUSING SECURED TO THE CORRESPONDING UPSTANDING SIDE OF SAID LOAD BODY IN LIEU OF THE CONVENTIONAL CORRSPONDING OUTWARDLY PROJECTING REAR FENDER THEREOF, SAID HOUSING, IN SIDE ELEVATION, INCLUDING AN UPPER HORIZONTALLY ELONGATED CENTER SECTION INTERCONNECTING A PAIR OF SPACED OPPOSITE END DEPENDING END SECTIONS DEFINING A DOWNWARDLY OPENING WHEEL WELL THEREBETWEEN FOR SAID LOAD BODY AND WHOSE UPPER END IS CLOSED BY THE PORTION OF SAID CENTER SECTION EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID END SECTIONS, SAID HOUSING INCLUDING AN INNER SIDE WALL FULLY ENCLOSING THE INNER EXTREMITIES OF SAID CENTER AND END SECTIONS AND INCLUDING PORTIONS PROJECTING INTO SAID WELL, SAID LOAD BODY SIDES INCLUDING REINFORCED PORTIONS ADAPTED TO HAVE SAID FENDERS SECURED THERETO, AND SAID HOUSING SIDE WALL PORTIONS INCLUDING MEANS REGISTRABLE WITH AND ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE CORRESPONDING REINFORCED PORTIONS BY MEANS OF FASTENERS COMPRISING AT LEAST THE MAJOR MEANS OF SUPPORTING SAID HOUSINGS FROM THE CORRESPONDING SIDE, SAID CORRESPONDING SIDE INCLUDING AN OUTWARDLY FLARED UPPER TERMINAL EDGE PORTION PROJECTING ABOVE AND OVER SAID HOUSING, SAID HOUSING INCLUDING AT LEAST AN INNER MARGINAL AND LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING PARTIAL TOP WALL BELOW AND PROJECTING OUTWARDLY OF SAID OUTWARDLY FLARED UPPER TERMINAL EDGE PORTION, SAID HOUSING ALSO INCLUDING AN OUTER MARGINAL AND LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING PARTIAL TOP WALL WHOSE INNER MARGINAL EDGE PORTION IS PIVOTALLY SECURED TO THE OUTER MARGINAL EDGE PORTION OF SAID INNER PARTIAL TOP WALL FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS GENERALLY PARALLELING SAID OUTER AND INNER EDGE PORTIONS AND PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID OUTER PARTIAL TOP WALL FROM A CLOSED POSITION FORMING A CONTINUATION OF SAID INNER PARTIAL TOP WALL AND AN OUTWARDLY AND UPWARDLY INCLINED POSITION OPENING AT LEAST THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID CENTER SECTION.