Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – With mounting – fastening – or supporting means – Automobile windshield weather protector or sunshield
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-06
2001-01-30
Johnson, Blair M. (Department: 3634)
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
With mounting, fastening, or supporting means
Automobile windshield weather protector or sunshield
C296S097800
Reexamination Certificate
active
06179038
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to pivoting automobile window shades system that is removably mounted at an interior of an automobile window.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Automobile window shades are utilized to reflect, and sometimes to absorb (in the winter months), sunlight that filters through an automobile window.
One automobile window shade utilizes a web of material having a continuous loop spring mounted along its periphery. The size of this prior art automobile shade is generally equivalent to the size of a front window of an automobile.
Another prior art automobile window shade utilizes two, completely independent, window shades. Each of these prior art window shades (used in combination), include a web of shade material and a continuous loop spring mounted along the periphery of each independent shade. To use these shades, the user unfolds the shade from a twisted, folded configuration and independently places the first and the second shade in his or her automobile window.
OBJECTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an automobile window shade system which includes a plurality of shades which are pivotally linked together.
It is another object of the present invention to provide end shades having longitudinally extending flaps.
It is a further of the present invention to provide an automobile window shade system, formed of a plurality of shades pivotally mounted together, wherein the pivotally mounted shades can be folded and stacked vertically atop each other such that respective continuous loop springs in each shade web arc vertically aligned and when the vertically aligned and stacked loop springs are twisted and folded, the shade has three positional modes, that is, a fully laterally extending positional mode (fully deployed in the automobile), a compact stacked positional mode and a sub-compact, twisted and folded positional mode.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide various attachment mechanisms to attach the non-pivoted lateral side edges of the plurality of shades together.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a pivot which also is a latch to release adjacent shades from each other.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide automobile window shades which are square shaped, rectangular shaped, circular shaped and oblong shaped.
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Johnson Blair M.
Kain, Jr. Robert C.
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