Hail protective cover

A hail protective vehicle cover including:

• a flexible cover member shaped to fit in an operating position over a vehicle and including an inner cover portion and an outer cover portion, said inner and outer cover portions being sealingly conjoined at their respective peripheries to form a cover periphery, wherein when the flexible cover member is in the operating position over the vehicle a first axis of the flexible cover member extends parallel to the vehicle axis of symmetry and a second axis of the flexible cover member extends transverse to the vehicle axis of symmetry;
• a plurality of elongate, substantially parallel, flexible webs arranged in rows, said webs secured in lengthwise spaced relation by a respective long edge to abutting surfaces of said inner and outer cover portions, said rows being spaced apart both along the first axis of the flexible cover member and the second axis of the flexible cover member to form a plurality of spaces between ends of adjacent said flexible webs, the plurality of spaces between ends of adjacent said flexible webs forming with said inner and outer cover portions a contiguous inflatable space having an inflated thickness controlled by the transverse dimension of said webs;
• an electric blower integral with the flexible cover member and selected to inflate said inflatable space and maintain said inflatable space in an inflated state;
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• a plurality of discrete securing means spaced about said cover periphery and adapted to selectively engage said vehicle when the flexible cover member is in the operating position over the vehicle.