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US 4,077,419 AGranted
Awning apparatus for travel trailers, mobile homes, and the like
OwnerPhil Luxinventor
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Awning apparatus for travel trailers, mobile homes, and the like for canopy awnings of the type having a canopy attached at a fixed rail on the vehicle and at a wind-up roller bar. The roller bar includes springs for asserting wind-up tension on the canopy at all times such that movement of the roller bar from the canopy in-use position spaced from the vehicle to a storage position adjacent the vehicle is accompanied by an automatic wind-up of the canopy around the roller bar. A four point suspension system is provided for supporting the roller bar which includes side arms engageable with respective opposite ends of the roller bar and rafter arms engageable with the roller bar at positions intermediate the ends of the roller bar. To accommodate adjustment and connection of the rafter bars, the roller bar is provided with a slot engageable with an enlarged ball end portion of the rafter bars. The rafter bars are pivotally connected at the vehicle at a position adjacent the in-use storage position of the side arm bars. At the mounting rail on the vehicle, saddle brackets are provided for cradling opposite end portions of the roller bar when in the storage position, which saddle bars include a detent bulge engageable in radially facing recesses on the roller bar to automatically prevent rotation of the roller bar when it is clamped in the storage position forced downwardly against the saddle bar. The roller bar is provided with removable end caps for accommodating access to the internal wind-up springs, which end caps include slots in alignment with slots in the roller bar for accommodating exchange of the canopy without requiring removal of the end caps.
Awning apparatus comprising:
Awning apparatus comprising:
Awning apparatus comprising holding means for holding a roller bar means of a canopy awning of the type wherein the canopy means is wound around the roller bar means when in a storage position, said holding means including means for selectively holding said roller bar means in respective canopy in-use and storage positions, said holding means including side arm means and rafter arm means, said side arm means including a side arm member having one end thereof attachable to an end of said roller bar means and the other end thereof attachable to a relatively fixed structure, said rafter arm means including a rafter arm member having one end attachable to said relatively fixed structure and the other end thereof detachably attachable to said roller bar means, said other end of said rafter arm member being attachable to said roller bar means at a position intermediate the ends of the roller bar means and intermediate the places occupied by the lateral edges of the canopy means when the canopy means is attached to said roller bar means in a canopy in-use position.
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