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US 4,160,458 AGranted
Awning control apparatus
OwnerDonald O. Marcellusinventor
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Abstract
An awning control apparatus for connecting to the side of a support structure. The apparatus having electric motors for electrically extending an awning outwardly from the side of the support structure. One side of the awning may be lowered for draining rain water from the top of the awning, and the awning may be retracted by reversing the electric motors. The apparatus may be used on recreational vehicles, campers, trailers, mobile homes, or the like.
Claims13
An awning control apparatus for connecting to a support structure, the apparatus comprising:
- an awning having a support end and a roll end, the support end attached to the support structure;
- drive means attached to the support structure;
- an elongated drive shaft attached to said drive means and rotated thereby;
- a telescoping support arm attached to said drive shaft and the roll end of said awning, said drive shaft extending said support arm and said awning outwardly from the support structure;
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- a telescoping brace arm attached to said drive shaft and the support structure, said drive shaft extending said brace arm outwardly from the support structure.
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An awning control apparatus for connecting to a support structure, the apparatus comprising:
- an awning having a support end and a roll end, the support end attached to the support structure, the roll end mounted on a roll bar;
- a pair of electric motors pivotally attached to the support structure, said motors disposed below the opposite sides of the support end of said awning;
- a pair of elongated screw shafts geared to said motors and extending outwardly therefrom, said shafts rotated by said motors when said motors are activated;
- a pair of lower support arms having a lower end and an upper end, the lower end attached to said motors;
- a pair of upper support arms having a lower end and an upper end, the upper end attached to said roll bar, said upper support arms slidably mounted on said bottom support arms;
- a pair of support arm nuts attached to the lower end of said upper support arms and threadably mounted on said screw shafts for feeding said upper support arms upwardly from said lower support arms;
- a pair of upper brace arms having a lower end and an upper end, the upper end pivotally attached to the support structure and disposed above said motors;
- a pair of lower brace arms having a lower end and an upper end, said lower brace arms slidably mounted on said upper brace arms;
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- a pair of brace arm nuts attached to the lower end of said lower brace arms, said brace arm nuts threadably mounted on said screw shafts for feeding said lower brace arm outwardly from said upper brace arm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.