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US 2006/0220413 A1Published application
Emergency vehicle blind apparatus
OwnerGlenn Maguireinventor
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Abstract
A curtain mounted to the bottom, top, or one end of an emergency vehicle and deployable to cover the side of the vehicle in itself.
Claims22
Emergency vehicle blind apparatus comprising:
- a vehicle having at least one vertical side wall to be, while attending to an emergency adjacent a traffic lane, positioned facing the traffic lane, the side wall having a central main area bordered by top bottom, front and back bottom and top boarders areas;
- an elongated housing having side and end walls, mounted the at one of the border areas of the at least one vertical side of the vehicle and, configured with a curtain chamber, one side wall being formed with an opening facing the central main area toward the opposed boarder section on the opposite side of the central main area;
- a retractor reel mounted in the chamber;
- a curtain on the reel and extendable through the opening to cover at least the main central area and having a free end;
- a retractor for rotating the reel to retract the curtain;
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- an anchor device disposable on the opposed boarder area for receiving the free end of the curtain when extended to hold it in covering relationship over the at least main central main area.
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A method of covering a distinctive side of an emergency vehicle to conceal it from view by motorists passing an accident site and comprising:
- at the accident site, accessing a curtain stored in a housing mounted at one side of the distinctive side of the vehicle and extending the curtain to cover the distinctive sidewall of the vehicle;
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- removably fastening the free end of the curtain to the border element of the distinctive side of the vehicle opposite to first boarder element to maintain the distinctive side covered by the curtain.
Emergency blind apparatus for covering a distinctive sidewall of an emergency vehicle and comprising:
- a curtain carried from the vehicle, retractable to a stored position and deployable in covering relationship over the distinctive sidewall;
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- an anchor element for anchoring the free extremity of the curtain with the main body of the curtain in covering relationship over the distinctive wall of the vehicle.
Emergency vehicle blind apparatus for covering the distinctive sidewall of an emergency vehicle and comprising:
- a housing for running along the bottom extremity of the distinctive wall;
- a curtain carried in retracted position in the housing and extendable to an extended position in covering relationship over the distinctive sidewall;
- a pair of anchoring posts rotatable between retracted positions disposed horizontally in the housing and extended positions with the free extremities disposed at the top side of the distinctive wall of the vehicle;
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- anchor elements carried on the free extremity on the curtain to anchor on the free extremities of the respective posts.
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An emergency vehicle blind apparatus for covering the distinctive sidewall of an emergency vehicle comprising:
- a housing mounting to the top side of the vertical wall;
- an elongated retraction wheel in the housing and carrying a curtain for extension downwardly and covering relationship over the distinct wall and, having the reel being operable to reel being operable to track the curtain into the housing.
Emergency blind apparatus for covering the distinctive vertical wall of an emergency vehicle and comprising;
- a horizontally elongated housing for mounting to the bottom side of the distinctive wall;
- a retraction reel mounted in the housing and bias to a retracted position;
- a opaque curtain mounted on the retraction reel and, the reel being operable to release the curtain to be drawn upwardly into covering relationship over the vertical wall;
- a pair of anchor post devices carried pivotally on their respective one extremities at the opposite ends of the housing and being pivotable from a horizontal detracted position disclosed in the housing to respective vertical extended positions having respective free extremities disposed above the horizontal plane of the top of the vertical wall;
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- fastener devices for fastening the free extremity of the curtain to the free extremities of the respective posts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.