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US 10,123,640 B2Granted
Cover for outdoor furniture
AssigneeDuck Covers, LLC
InventorsOlaf Dietrich Elze, Shawn Finlay Sterling
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Abstract
A cover is for a furniture item defining a recess at an upper end. The cover may include a cover layer extending over the furniture item and over the recess and having an inner surface adjacent the recess, and a bladder coupled to the inner surface of the cover layer adjacent the recess and configured to inflate. The bladder is for preventing depressions on an upper surface of the cover layer.
Claims6
A furniture item comprising:
- a furniture body comprising a first surface and a second surface canted at an angle to the first surface, the first and second surfaces defining a recess therebetween;
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- a cover comprising
- a cover layer for draping over an entire outer surface of the furniture item and extending over the recess, and having an inner surface adjacent the recess,
- a wedge-shaped single air-inflatable bladder in the recess and coupled to the inner surface of said cover layer, said wedge-shaped single air-inflatable bladder configured to inflate and comprising an air valve configured to be attached to a pressurized air source,
- said wedge-shaped single air-inflatable bladder having first and second tapered surfaces ending at a common end, the common end being in the recess, the first and second tapered surfaces respectively abutting the first and second surfaces of said furniture body,
- said cover layer and said wedge-shaped single air-inflatable bladder being separate from each other,
- said wedge-shaped single air-inflatable bladder for preventing depressions on an upper surface of said cover layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.