US 6,206,454 B1Granted

Soft-top type vehicle cover

OwnerJason R. Coryinventor

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Abstract

A new soft-top type vehicle cover for preventing theft. The inventive device includes a cover member that is adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of the vehicle and a rear of the vehicle. The cover member has a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions. Each of the door portions has a door window opening. A plurality of pairs of window tracks are adapted for coupling to vertical sides of the window openings. One pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of one of the door window openings. Another pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of another of the door window openings. A plurality of transparent window panes are disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks. Each of the window panes has a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends and is deformable. The window panes in the door window openings slide out of lower ends of the window tracks as they move from a closed position towards an opened position.

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Dependent claims

A soft-top type vehicle cover with anti-theft features for covering a passenger compartment of a Jeep type vehicle, the vehicle cover comprising:

a cover member being adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of a vehicle and a rear of the vehicle;
said cover member having a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions, said roof portion being detachably coupled to the windshield of the vehicle and extending rearwardly over said passenger compartment, said rear portion extending between said roof portion and the rear of the vehicle and being detachably coupled to an outer surface of the rear of the vehicle;
each of said door portions having a door window opening;
a plurality of pairs of window tracks being adapted for coupling to vertical sides of said window openings, one pair of window tracks being coupled to said sides of one of said door window openings, another pair of window tracks being coupled to said sides of another of said door window openings;
a plurality of transparent window panes, each of said window panes being disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks, each of said window panes having a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends, said window panes being deformable;
each of said window panes being positionable between a closed and an opened position, said window openings being substantially covered when said window panes are in said closed position, said window openings being substantially opened when said window panes are in said opened position;
and
said window panes in said door window openings sliding out of lower ends of said window tracks as they move from said closed position towards said opened position.

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A soft-top type vehicle cover with anti-theft features for covering a passenger compartment of a Jeep type vehicle, the vehicle cover comprising:

a cover member being adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of a vehicle and a rear of the vehicle;
said cover member having a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions, said roof portion being detachably coupled to the windshield of the vehicle and extending rearwardly over said passenger compartment, said rear portion extending between said roof portion and the rear of the vehicle and being detachably coupled to an outer surface of the rear of the vehicle;
each of said door portions having a door window opening;
said cover member having a rear window opening;
a plurality of pairs of window tracks being adapted for coupling to vertical sides of said window openings, one pair of window tracks being coupled to said sides of one of said door window openings, another pair of window tracks being coupled to said sides of another of said door window openings, another pair of window tracks being coupled to said sides of said rear window opening;
a plurality of transparent window panes, each of said window panes being disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks, each of said window panes having a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends, each of said side ends of said window panes being generally T-shaped, said window panes being deformable;
each of said window tracks having a generally C-shaped transverse cross-section and having a channel therein for receiving said side ends of said window panes;
each of said window panes being positionable between a closed and an opened position, said window openings being substantially covered when said window panes are in said closed position, said window openings being substantially opened when said window panes are in said opened position;
said window panes in said door window openings sliding out of lower ends of said window tracks as they move from said closed position towards said opened position;
each of said window tracks having a plurality of apertures therein being extended into a rear surface of said channel, said apertures being spaced apart;
each of said tops of said window panes positioned in said door window openings having a squeeze actuator centrally located thereon and a pair of rods, one of said rods being extended from said squeeze actuator into an aperture of one of said window tracks, another of said rods being extended from said squeeze actuator into an aperture of another of said window tracks, said rods restricting vertical movement of said top of said window pane between said opened and closed positions, wherein squeezing said squeeze actuator retracts said rods towards said squeeze actuator thereby permitting vertical positioning of said top of said window pane;
wherein said squeeze actuators of said window panes positioned in said door window openings is positioned towards a passenger compartment of said vehicle;
said bottom of said window pane positioned in said rear window opening having a squeeze actuator centrally located thereon and a pair of rods, one of said rods being extended from said squeeze actuator into an aperture of one of said window tracks, another of said rods being extended from said squeeze actuator into an aperture of another of said window tracks, said rods restricting vertical movement of said bottom of said window pane between said opened and closed positions, wherein squeezing said squeeze actuator retracts said rods towards said squeeze actuator thereby permitting vertical positioning of said bottom of said window pane;
each of said window tracks having a serpentine shape along a longitudinal axis thereof for helping said window pane slide out of said window tracks as said window pane moves from a closed position toward an opened position;
at least one clip member being coupled to said cover member, said clip member being extended along a lower edge of said cover member, said clip member being detachably coupled to an inside surface of the vehicle for helping prevent detaching of said cover member from the vehicle;
said cover member having a pair of quarter panel openings;
said cover member having first and second quarter panel portions being adapted for insertion in said quarter panel openings of said cover member, said quarter panel portions being removably coupled to said roof portion and said rear portion of said cover member and being detachably coupled to an outer surface of the vehicle;
said roof portion of said cover member having a pair of first slide tracks, one of said first slide tracks being vertically extended along one of said quarter panel openings, another of said first slide tracks being vertically extended along another of said quarter panel openings, upper edges of said quarter panel portions being slidably insertable in said first slide tracks;
said rear portion of said cover member having a pair of second slide tracks, one of said second slide tracks being horizontally extended along one of said quarter panel openings, another of said second slide tracks being horizontally extended along another of said quarter panel openings, rear edges of said quarter panel portions being slidably insertable in said second slide tracks;
each of said slide tracks having a generally C-shaped transverse cross-section and having a channel therein for receiving said quarter panel portions;
first and second quarter panel clip members being coupled to said quarter panel portions of said cover member, said first quarter panel clip member being extended along a lower edge of one of said quarter panel portions, said second quarter panel clip member being extended along a lower edge of another of said quarter panel portions, said quarter panel clip members being detachably coupled to an inside surface of the vehicle for helping prevent detaching of said quarter panel portions from the vehicle;
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a strap being extended across said roof portion of said cover member substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, said strap being adapted for holding a forward portion of said roof portion in a folded orientation under a back portion of said roof portion when said roof portion is detached from the windshield of the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.