Simulated vehicle louvre applique
AssigneeLarry Eugene Reeves
InventorsHubbard L. Dunklin, Larry E. Reeves
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Abstract
A low cost sun screen device for use on motor vehicles is disclosed comprising a perforated polymer laminate sheet which is affixed to the interior surface of the vehicle rear window. The outermost surface of the laminate sheet includes artwork and other indicia formed thereon which when viewed by an observer through the rear window of the vehicle, simulates the appearance of a three-dimensional mechanical window louvre structure. The perforated laminate sheet provides an aesthetically pleasing, effective sunshield which reduces the temperature of the interior compartment of the vehicle by as much as forty percent while insuring that occupant visibility is not adversely affected.
Claims15
A sun screening device for use on a window of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a thin flexible sheet formed to be applied in a generally contiguous orientation to the interior surface of said vehicle window, said sheet formed of a material adapted to reflect and dissipate incident sunlight falling on said sheet;
- plural apertures formed through said sheet, said apertures sized to permit unimpaired vision through said sheet while maintaining a sufficient surface area for said sheet so that the majority of said incident sunlight falling on said sheet is screened from passage into the interior compartment of said vehicle;
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- indicia formed on said sheet adapted to generate a visual image simulating a rigid, three-dimensional window louvre structure when viewed from the exterior of said vehicle and through said window.
A sun screening device for use on the rear window of a motor vehicle to reduce the temperature of the interior compartment of said motor vehicle comprising:
- a thin flexible laminate sheet comprising a first sheet portion formed of a polyvinyl chloride material and a second sheet portion formed of a polyester fabric material, said laminate sheet sized to be applied in a substantially contiguous orientation to the surface of said rear window exposed within the interior compartment of said vehicle and adapted to reduce the passage of incident sunlight falling on said rear window into said interior compartment of said vehicle;
- a plurality of apertures formed through said laminate sheet each sized to permit vision through said laminate sheet from said interior compartment of said vehicle;
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- indicia formed on said laminate sheet representing a louvre structure, said indicia, when viewed through said rear window from a location exterior of said vehicle, adapted to render a visual image simulating an exterior mounted three dimensional mechanical window louvre structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.