Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Glare screen or visor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-07
2001-11-20
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Glare screen or visor
C296S097400
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318789
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to windshield screens and more particularly pertains to a new automotive windshield screen device for keeping an interior of an automobile relatively cool.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of windshield screens is known in the prior art. More specifically, windshield screens heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,344,206; 5,042,866; 1,755,734; U.S. Des. Pat. No. 375,713; U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,493,192; and 5,720,508.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new automotive windshield screen device. The inventive device includes a rod. The rod is elongate and has a first end and a second end. The first end is rotatably coupled to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a first upper corner of the windshield. A turning means for rotating the rod is mounted to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a second upper corner of the windshield. The second end of the rod is mechanically coupled to the turning means. An actuating means turns on the turning means in a first or second direction. The actuating means is operationally coupled to the turning means. A power supply supplies power to the turning means and is operationally coupled to the actuating means. A panel has a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is fixedly coupled to the rod such that the panel may be wound about the rod.
In these respects, the automotive windshield screen device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of keeping an interior of an automobile relatively cool.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of windshield screens now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new automotive windshield screen device construction wherein the same can be utilized for keeping an interior of an automobile relatively cool.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new automotive windshield screen device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the windshield screens mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new automotive windshield screen device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art windshield screens, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a rod. The rod is elongate and has a first end and a second end. The first end is rotatably coupled to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a first upper corner of the windshield. A turning means for rotating the rod is mounted to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a second upper corner of the windshield. The second end of the rod is mechanically coupled to the turning means. An actuating means turns on the turning means in a first or second direction. The actuating means is operationally coupled to the turning means. A power supply supplies power to the turning means and is operationally coupled to the actuating means. A panel has a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is fixedly coupled to the rod such that the panel may be wound about the rod.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new automotive windshield screen device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the windshield screens mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new automotive windshield screen device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art windshield screens, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new automotive windshield screen device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new automotive windshield screen device which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new automotive windshield screen device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such automotive windshield screen device economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new automotive windshield screen device which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new automotive windshield screen device for keeping an interior of an automobile relatively cool.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new automotive windshield screen device which includes a rod. The rod is elongate and has a first end and a second end. The first end is rotatably coupled to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a first upper corner of the windshield. A turning means for rotating the rod is mounted to an inside portion of the automobile and positioned substantially adjacent to a second upper corner of the windshield. The second end of the rod is mechanically coupled to the turning means. An actuating means turns on the turning means in a first or second direction. The actuating means
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