US 6,672,643 B1Granted

Retractable vehicle cover

OwnerArkadiy Brodskiy, Boris Brodsky +1inventors

InventorsArkadiy Brodskiy, Boris Brodsky, Leonid Brodsky

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Abstract

The vehicle cover of the invention consists of three pivotally interconnected cassettes with rolls of a flexible protective cover material stored in each of the cassettes and unwoundable therefrom through a slit in the side of the cassette, similar to a photo film that can be pulled out from a film cassette. In a folded state the cassettes are arranged side by side parallel to each other. Each cassette consists of two parallel sections with the flexible material in each section wound in mutually opposite directions so that the protective flexible materials of each section can be pulled out in mutually opposite directions. The first and third cassettes are pivotally connected to the second, i.e., the intermediate cassette so that they can be turned by 90° with respect to the intermediate cassette. The ends of the flexible materials may be provided with hooks or other means for securing the materials to the vehicle body in a retracted position. Device can be provided with a guide frame attachable to the luggage rack on the vehicle's roof.

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Dependent claims

A retractable vehicle cover for a deployment from the roof of a vehicle into a deployed position over the vehicle's roof and both sides, said vehicle having a longitudinal direction which coincides with the direction of movement of said vehicle, said retractable vehicle cover comprising:

at least a first cassette unit, a second cassette unit, and a third cassette unit which are all arranged parallel to each other, said second cassette unit having one lateral side and a second lateral side opposite to said first lateral side, said first cassette unit and said second cassette unit having a first common axis along said one lateral side on which said first cassette unit is hinged to said second cassette unit, said third cassette unit and said second cassette unit having a second common axis along said second lateral side on which said third cassette unit is hinged to said second cassette unit, so that said first cassette unit can be turned by 90 degrees in a one direction around one of said common axes, while said second cassette unit can be turned by 90 degrees around the second of said common axes in a second direction opposite to direction one direction;
each of said first cassette unit, said second cassette unit, and said third cassette unit consisting of a pair of cassettes with a web of a flexible material in each of said cassettes wound in each cassette of said pair in opposite direction to each other, so that said web material could be pulled out from each of said cassettes of each said pair in mutually opposite directions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.