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US 2011/0226394 A1Published application
Cover for protection of motor vehicle door exterior
OwnerAntolin Rodriguezinventor
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Abstract
A cover assembly for attachment to the doors of a motor vehicle, to protect their exterior surfaces, includes at least two cover panels that are adjustably affixed to one another to provide a subassembly of variable effective width. Upper and lower portions of the panels are disengageably attached to the door.
Claims21
A cover assembly for attachment to a door of a motor vehicle to protect the exterior surface of its panel, said assembly comprising:
- first and second, generally rectangular cover panels of padding material, each of said cover panels having at least one height dimension, taken between upper and lower edges thereof, and at least one width dimension taken between opposite lateral edges thereof, the at least one height dimension of said first and second cover panels being substantially the same;
- means for disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another with adjacent lateral marginal portions thereof overlapped so as to provide a substantially continuous protective cover subassembly;
- means for disengageably attaching, about structure of the protected vehicle door that extends upwardly from the door panel, upper portions of said assembled cover panels so as to dispose said protective cover subassembly over the exterior surface of the protected door panel with interior face portions of said cover panels lying thereagainst and with exterior face portions thereof exposed;
- and means for disengageably attaching lower portions of said assembled cover panels, so disposed, to lower portions of the protected vehicle door panel;
- said means for disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another being constructed for varying the extent of overlap of said adjacent lateral marginal portions of said cover panels so as to correspondingly vary the distance between the mutually remote, outer lateral edges thereof and thereby vary the effective width of said protective cover subassembly.
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A motor vehicle having door-surface protection, comprised of:
- a motor vehicle having at least one door comprising a door panel and structure that extends upwardly therefrom;
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- a cover assembly for protecting the exterior surface of said door panel, said cover assembly comprising:
- first and second, generally rectangular cover panels of padding material, each of said cover panels having at least one height dimension, taken between upper and lower edges thereof, and at least one width dimension taken between opposite lateral edges thereof, the at least one height dimension of said first and second cover panels being substantially the same;
- means disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another with adjacent lateral marginal portions thereof overlapped so as to provide a substantially continuous protective cover subassembly;
- means disengageably attaching, about said upwardly extending structure of said vehicle door, upper portions of said assembled cover panels so as to dispose said protective cover subassembly over said exterior surface of said door panel with interior face portions of said cover panels lying thereagainst and with exterior face portions thereof exposed;
- and means disengageably attaching lower portions of said assembled cover panels, so disposed, to lower portions of said vehicle door panel;
- said means disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another being constructed for varying the extent of overlap of said adjacent lateral marginal portions of said cover panels to correspondingly vary the distance between the mutually remote, outer lateral edges thereof, thereby to vary the effective width of said protective cover subassembly so as to cause said subassembly to cover substantially the full width of said vehicle door panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.