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US 2012/0068489 A1Published application
Vehicle Enclosure Apparatus
AssigneePond I Corp.
InventorPhillip Pond
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Abstract
A vehicle-mountable structure is disclosed. Said structure is adapted to substantially conceal a vehicle and operator in an enclosure and provide in a visually attractive appearance. The enclosure is supported by a hierarchy of beams capable of attaching to a vehicle frame in a manner that does not interfere with vehicle operations.
Claims20
A bicycle-mountable enclosure comprising,
- a. a frame adapted to securely receive bicycles of various sizes at the headtube and seattube,
- b. a plurality of armature structures removably secured to the frame and adapted to receive flexible pole elements,
- c. a plurality of flexible pole elements removably secured to the frame by the armature structure, and
- d. an enclosure skin stretched over the flexible pole elements, said enclosure skin adapted to substantially conceal the bicycle.
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A vehicle-mountable enclosure comprising,
- a. a primary frame adapted to securely clamp to a vehicle frame at the vehicle's headtube and seattube;
- b. a rigid secondary frame wherein,
- i. a forward secondary frame element is removably secured to the primary frame in front of the headtube, and
- ii. a rear secondary frame element is removably secured to the primary frame behind the seattube, and wherein,
- iii. said secondary frame elements extend away from primary frame, and
- iv. said secondary frame elements containing at least an outer surface;
- c. a plurality of flexible tertiary frame elements removably secured to an outer surface of secondary frame elements;
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- d. an enclosure skin elastically secured to tertiary frame elements, said enclosure skin adapted to substantially conceal a vehicle.
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The vehicle-mountable enclosure of claim 0, wherein the enclosure skin displays exterior graphics, information or advertisements.
The vehicle-mountable enclosure of claim 0 wherein,
- a. the primary frame element is made of wood, fiberglass, aluminum, carbon fiber, or similar lightweight material of sufficient stiffness to support the remaining frame members and enclosure, and
- b. the secondary frame element is made of wood, fiberglass, aluminum, carbon fiber, or similar lightweight material of sufficient stiffness to support the tertiary frame members and enclosure.
A vehicle-mountable enclosure comprising
- a. a forward clamping structure adapted to securely receive a vehicle's headtube,
- b. a rear clamping structure adapted to securely receive a vehicle's seattube;
- c. a forward secondary frame adjustably secured to the forward clamping structure,
- d. a rear secondary frame adjustably secured to the rear clamping structure,
- e. said forward and rear secondary frames extending away from the clamping structures and containing at least an outer surface adapted to receive tertiary frame elements;
- f. a plurality of tertiary frame elements removably secured to an outer surface of the secondary frame elements,
- g. an enclosure skin elastically secured over the tertiary frame elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.