Truck trailer load cover (tarpaulin) receiver

Claim 1

A tarp holder for use with the normally vertical dividing stakes securing removable side panels for a flat bed truck trailer and, further, the normally vertical retaining stakes therefor, said dividing and retaining stakes being hollow centered, at least in the upper portion thereof, in order to receive therewithin the outboard, normally vertical ends of cross beams which overlie the trailer body, comprising: an integral tarp holder removably engagable with one such stake having the following parts: a first normally vertical insert length adapted to be removably inserted down into the hollow center of one of said stakes, a second normally substantially horizontal inboard top member adapted to limit insertion of said insert length in said stake connected to the upper end of said length and further extending outboard of said stake, a tarp retaining loop having a third normally substantially vertical inboard part connected at its upper end to the inner top member and extending downwardly therefrom, a fourth normally substantially horizontal bottom part connected at its inboard end to and extending outwardly away from said third inboard part and a fifth normally substantially vertical outboard part connected at its lower end to the outboard end of the fourth bottom part and extending upwardly therefrom past the second inner top member, the first length so configured in the portion thereof insertable within said stake as to permit the simultaneous presence in said stake therewith of a cross beam end, and the fifth outboard part being of a length substantially greater than the third inboard part whereby to extend substantially upwardly thereabove and therepast and above said stake.