Thermal barrier device for winter recreation surfaces
OwnerWilliam G. Burleyinventor
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Abstract
A thermal barrier device provides a heat insulative cover having low to negligible permeability to water vapor and a remote controlled reeling and unreeling mechanism for deploying and harvesting the cover onto and off of the exposed surfaces of ice rinks, curling rinks, ski jumps, toboggan runs, and the like. The length and width required for covering a particular exposed surface is readily adjustable by lengthwise and edgewise coupling means.
Claims10
In a thermal barrier device for reducing heat transfer to and from an exposed ice surface and comprising a flexible, heat insulative cover deployable onto and harvestable from said ice surface in combination with a reel means for unwinding and winding of said cover, respectively, during the deploying and harvesting thereof, the improvement comprising:
- plural sections of said cover, each of said sections having a length terminating in opposite ends, a width terminating in opposite edges, and a thickness, and means for connecting to an endwise adjacent section to form a series of sections;
- means for connecting an end of a terminal section of said series to said reel means;
- said reel means being mounted on a vehicle repositionable relative to said ice surface such that edgewise adjacent portions are deployable and harvestable in accordance with repositioning of said reel means;
- handle means, attached to said cover, for grasping by an individual in order to guide said flexible cover during said unwinding and winding;
- means for driving a spool of said reel means in forward and reverse by remote control to accomplish said unwinding and winding;
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- wherein said reel means is operable from a remote location in order that said individual can accomplish said deploying and harvesting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.