Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Tops – Cover
Patent
1983-02-23
1984-10-09
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Tops
Cover
296218, 296219, B60J 710
Patent
active
044757646
ABSTRACT:
A cover for the top of an automobile, having a front window, side windows, and a rear window surrounding a passenger compartment of the automobile and where the top of the automobile provides removable, self supporting covers carried by a frame assembly in the top of the automobile and where the edge of the frame adjoining the rear window of the automobile has a lip along a portion of the juncture between the removable covers and the frame where the cover provided by the present is a flexible sheet of material sized to cover the top of the automobile and the openings and includes a front flap at one edge of the cover to extend downwardly over the windshield, opposed side flaps to encroach over the side windows, and a rear edge carrying a flexible, compressible, generally circular cross section seal member, and strap means connected to the rear edge of the cover and extending outwardly therefrom and further where suction cup devices are provided on the side flaps to be secured to the side windows of the automobile, the front flap includes suction cup members to be secured to the windshield of the automobile and the straps include suction cups adjacent the terminal ends thereof to be secured to the rear window so that the cover can be pulled tightly toward the rear of the automobile to form a seal between the circular member and the ledge.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4290640 (1981-09-01), Dalton
patent: 4330150 (1982-05-01), Dunchock et al.
J. C. Whitney, Catalog No. 422D, Copyright 1982, p. 77, Item: Custom-Fit Rain Top.
Hutchinson Mark R.
Parker David A.
Pedder Dennis H.
Reeves Robert B.
Steutermann Edward M.
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