One-man truck-mounted camper

Claim 1

A short-bodied camper for use with a pickup truck having standard items such as, among others, a cab, a rear window in said cab, a pickup bed for hauling articles, and side panels fastened to a chassis of the truck to enclose the bed of the truck on the sides, said camper comprising, in combination: a shell having a height approximately equal to the height of the cab of the truck from the bed to the top of the cab, a width equal to the width of the bed of the truck up to the height of the side panels and a width equal to the width of the cab above the height of the side panels forming wing sections, and a length approximately equal to the width of a person, said shell having openings therein; an access door mounted by hinges to a rear section to cover one opening of said shell, said access door having a window area therein; a first locking latch mounted in said access door for latching the access door to said shell when the access door is closed and for preventing access to the shell interior when locked; a pair of window panels, each window panel being hingedly mounted to a side section of said shell in the winged portion; a plurality of removable cushions, each cushion being of a width approximately the same as the length of said shell and length such that the plurality of cushions collectively extends the width of the shell; a plurality of mounting means fastened to each of said plurality of cushions; a first hanging means fastened to the interior of said shell on both front and rear sections at a chair height to cooperate with the mounting means of two of said plurality of cushions to form two seat sections at the sides of said shell; a second hanging means fastened to the interior of said shell on both front and rear sections, with a set of hanging means fastened one above the other at an inclusive angle to form a back section for each of the two seat sections; each of said plurality of removable cushions being formed with a soft cushioned facing and a hard surfaced back; said plurality of mounting means including a pair of rods protruding from each side of each removable cushion to cooperate with said first hanging means to form two backs of bench chairs and to cooperate with said second hanging means to form two seats cooperating with each back of the bench chairs; and a third hanging means mounted to the front and access door interior sections of the shell and at the same level as the second group of hangers, said cushions forming a cot by placing the cushions forming the backs of the bench seats into said third hanging means, with all cushions having their soft cushion facing in the upward direction, said cushions forming a platform when all cushions have their hard-surfaced backs facing upward.