Foldable weather canopy for motor vehicles
OwnerRuben M. Minimoinventor
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Abstract
A collapsible protective canopy useful as both a sunshade and frostshield for motor vehicles is made of a sheet of corrugated cardboard, laminated cardboard, vinyl, leather, nylon, plastic, synthetic, or combinations thereof, or any other material in which fold line impressions, indentations or creases can be made to define parallel folds which can be stretched and compressed like the bellows of an accordion, the sheet including a center portion and two side portions provided with belts on opposite ends of the sheet for securing the canopy to a car body. The sheet is alternately foldable to a compact package for convenient handling and storage.
Claims8
A protective covering for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a sheet of creasable material having a longitudinal dimension between two ends;
- a pair of straight parallel longitudinal creases connecting said ends and dividing said sheet longitudinally into a center and two side portions;
- a plurality of transverse creases perpendicular to said parallel creases oriented in alternating directions for facilitating the folding of said sheet into an accordion stretchable in length;
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- sawtooth fold means along each of said longitudinal creases enabling said side portions to be folded at a right angle to said center portion while retaining said accordion folding in a transverse direction;
- whereby said sheet may be alternately formed into a protective canopy of variable length and adjustable curvature in a longitudinal direction, or folded with said side portions folded onto said center protion and all three of said portions then longitudinally collapsed in accordion fashion for storage to a compact package having a maximum dimension equal to the width of said center section, a width equal to the spacing between said transverse folds, and a height determined by the aggregate thickness of the collapsed sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.