Awning cover for slide-out unit for recreational vehicles
AssigneeCarefree/Scott Fetzer Company
InventorsJeffrey B. Rutherford, Robert Wagner
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Abstract
A retractable awning cover for a slide out unit on a recreational vehicle, mobile home, travel trailer or the like includes a scissors arm support system that elevates a support bar running longitudinally of the vehicle to establish a gable shape for the awning cover when extended. The support bar is automatically lowered during retraction so as to be alignable with the scissors arms that support the support bar.
Claims10
A retractable awning movable between extended and retracted positions comprising in combination:
- an awning canopy having first and second opposite parallel edges,
- an anchor rail secured to one of said edges,
- a roll bar secured to the other said edges,
- said roll bar and rail being end separated from each other in said extended position with said canopy extended between said anchor rail and roll bar,
- a support system having opposite ends positioned adjacent to said anchor rail and roll bar, said support system including a support bar positioned beneath said canopy and between said anchor rail and roll bar when the awning is extended and means for elevating said support bar relative to said anchor rail and roll bar as said awning is moved from said retracted position to said extended position.
A retractable cover operationally interconnecting a fixed wall and movable wall for a slide out unit said cover being moveable between an extended position and a retractable position and comprising in combination:
- a horizontal anchor rail secured to one of said fixed side wall or movable wall,
- a horizontal roll bar secured to the other said fixed wall or movable wall,
- a canopy secured along one edge adjacent to said anchor rail and along an opposite edge adjacent to said roll bar, said canopy being wrapped about said roll bar in the retracted position of the cover, and
- a support system having opposite ends adjacent to said anchor rail and roll bar, said support system including a support bar positioned beneath said canopy and between said anchor rail and roll bar when the cover is extended and means for elevating said support bar relative to said anchor rail and roll bar as said cover is moved between said retracted and extended positions.
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