Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Door or window with specified vehicle feature
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-15
2001-03-27
Pape, Joseph D. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Door or window with specified vehicle feature
C296S102000, C160S273100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06206454
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to vehicle covers and more particularly pertains to a new soft-top type vehicle cover for preventing theft.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of vehicle covers is known in the prior art. More specifically, vehicle covers 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 vehicle covers include U. S. Pat. No. 4,644,699; U.S. Pat. No. 4,850,139; U.S. Pat. No. 4,104,827; U.S. Pat. No. 5,465,531; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 250,330; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,012,293.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new soft-top type vehicle cover. The inventive device includes a cover member that is adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of the vehicle and a rear of the vehicle. The cover member has a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions. Each of the door portions has a door window opening. A plurality of pairs of window tracks are adapted for coupling to vertical sides of the window openings. One pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of one of the door window openings. Another pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of another of the door window openings. A plurality of transparent window panes are disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks. Each of the window panes has a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends and is deformable. The window panes in the door window openings slide out of lower ends of the window tracks as they move from a closed position towards an opened position.
In these respects, the soft-top type vehicle cover 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 preventing theft.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of vehicle covers now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new soft-top type vehicle cover construction wherein the same can be utilized for preventing theft.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the vehicle covers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new soft-top type vehicle cover which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicle covers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a cover member that is adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of the vehicle and a rear of the vehicle. The cover member has a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions. Each of the door portions has a door window opening. A plurality of pairs of window tracks are adapted for coupling to vertical sides of the window openings. One pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of one of the door window openings. Another pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of another of the door window openings. A plurality of transparent window panes are disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks. Each of the window panes has a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends and is deformable. The window panes in the door window openings slide out of lower ends of the window tracks as they move from a closed position towards an opened position.
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 soft-top type vehicle cover apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the vehicle covers mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new soft-top type vehicle cover which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicle covers, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover 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 soft-top type vehicle cover economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover 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 soft-top type vehicle cover for preventing theft.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new soft-top type vehicle cover which includes a cover member that is adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of the vehicle and a rear of the vehicle. The cover member has a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions. Each of the door portions has a door window opening. A plurality of pairs of window tracks are adapted for coupling to vertical sides of the window openings. One pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of one of the door window openings. Another pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of another of the door window openings. A plurality of transparent w
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Pape Joseph D.
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