Motor vehicle cover with low profile housing and inflatable side

Details Motor vehicle cover with low profile housing and inflatable side Motor vehicle cover with low profile housing and inflatable side

1997-06-13

1999-05-11

Pike, Andrew C.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Tops

Cover

293128, B60J11/00

Patent

active

059020032

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus used to protect a motor vehicle has a low profile housing placed below a rear bumper of the vehicle, and a cover placed within the housing in an accordion-like fashion. In one embodiment, an electric motor drives a roller belt assembly which frictionally engages with the cover to provide a force to aid a user in either the extension from or the retraction into the housing of the cover. In an alternate embodiment, the roller assembly includes webbing material geometrically positioned to prevent the cover from becoming entangled in the rollers. At least one roller assembly can be flexibly positioned to permit even force to be applied to the cover during extension from and retraction into the housing even if the cover becomes bunched to one side of the roller assembly. The electric motor is controlled from an extension handle attached to a forward portion of the cover. The vehicle cover can include a protective cushion that can be at least one inflatable air chamber to protect at least a portion of the vehicle when the cover is extended over the vehicle. An air pump attached to the housing inflates the air chamber when the handle is attached to a front portion of the vehicle. An exhaust valve in the handle deflates the air chamber for storage in the housing.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4294483 (1981-10-01), Ferris
patent: 4699192 (1987-10-01), Kamen et al.
patent: 5176421 (1993-01-01), Fasiska
patent: 5242206 (1993-09-01), Heck

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