FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates generally to pick-up truck beds and, more specifically to a multi-purpose storage container for the beds of pick-up trucks.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

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STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

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REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Storage containers for pick-up truck beds are known in the art and generally include permanently fixed structures that are directly secured to a portion of the pick-up truck bed. As an option to fixed storage containers, pickup truck owners have been known to also use wheel-less storage totes or plastic containers for supporting cargos on their pick-up truck bed. Some of the problems associated with the use of the aforementioned storage totes or plastic containers on the pick-up truck bed are that the storage totes or plastic containers and the cargo that they support often shift around during transport, the storage totes or plastic containers may be time consuming and heavy to load in and out of the trucks bed. There thus is a need for a storage container specifically designed for the beds of pick-up trucks that will solve the aforementioned issues.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Briefly, the present invention comprises a pick-up truck bed storage box that includes a one-piece rigid weather-proof non-metallic rectangular container having a length similar to the length of traditional a pick-up truck bed. The rigid rectangular container includes an open top, a bottom surface, a pair of parallel side walls, a first end wall and a second end wall. The rigid rectangular container also includes a first pair of collapsible and telescoping legs each having a first end and a second end with the first end connected to the bottom surface of the container proximal the first end wall of the container and a second pair of collapsible and telescoping legs each having a first end and a second end with the first end connected to the bottom surface of the container proximal the second end wall of the container.

Each of the legs are moveable between a container supporting condition and a stowed away condition with the legs being flushed with the bottom surface of the container in the stowed away condition and include a rotatable wheel connected to the second end of each of the legs.

The rigid rectangular container further includes a pair of wheel wells located between the parallel side walls and extending upwards into an interior of the container for supporting the wheels therein when the collapsible and telescoping legs are in the stowed away condition. The rigid rectangular container may also include at least one pair of corresponding divider support slot located on the side walls within the interior of the container.

