Inflated load bearing cushion for camper vehicles and the like

Claim 1

For use with a vehicle having a cab and a removable component such as a camper, the cab and camper having at least a pair of adjacent, spaced apart surface areas, a load bearing cushion insertable between said surface areas, said cushion being constructed of airtight flexible material and having top, bottom and side walls forming an airtight, expansible, inflatable chamber, said side walls being so dimensioned that, upon insertion between the cab and camper spaced apart surface areas and inflation, said cushion will fit tightly between the surface areas to stabilize the vehicle and removable component, at least one of said top and bottom walls of said cushion being provided with suction cup means thereon and over a substantial portion of said one wall to firmly engage with one of said surface areas upon inflation of said cushion whereby said cushion is retained between the surface areas regardless of even substantial relative articulating movement between the spaced surface areas are caused by road travel of the vehicle - removable component combination, wherein said chamber is in the form of a generally rectangularly configured torus of four sections, said suction cup means being arranged in clusters and effectively anchoring about half the surface area of said one wall and wherein at least one of said four sections of said cushion defines by said rectangularly configured torus is free of said suction cup means clusters so as to function as a rain and debris barrier upon insertion and inflation of said cushion in the vehicle-removable component combination.