Portable vehicle and/or equipment storm shield
AssigneeJ. Parr Wiegel
InventorsJ. Parr Wiegel, Anthony Sigillito
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Abstract
A vehicle and/or equipment storm shield is provided as having a spool of membrane material, which may be relatively quickly un-spooled to provide a sheet of membrane material operative to substantially enclose the vehicle and/or equipment for protecting the vehicle and/or equipment from wind, rain and/or flying debris associated with storming conditions. In a similar manner, the vehicle and/or equipment storm shield may also be adapted to protect computers, generators, communications equipment and the like, from damage due to storming weather conditions.
Claims25
An anchoring system comprising:
- an equipment pad sized to permit the equipment to be positioned in a location on the pad;
- a spool of flexible membrane material connected to a portion of the pad;
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- an anchor spaced from the spool, wherein the equipment is located therebetween.
A flexible barrier system for deploying a flexible membrane material to encompass equipment comprising:
- an anchor having a base and a support portion moveable between a first configuration defining a first angle between the base and the support portion and a second configuration defining a second angle between the base and the support portion;
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- a spool of flexible membrane material having a first longitudinal edge and adapted to be pulled over the equipment to remove a first sheet portion of membrane material and to form a storm shield, wherein the first longitudinal edge of the storm shield is removably coupled to the anchor to substantially preclude airflow therebetween.
A flexible barrier system for covering equipment, the flexible barrier system comprising:
- an equipment pad sized to permit the equipment to be positioned in a location on the pad;
- a spool mounted on the pad and spaced from the equipment;
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- a sheet of flexible membrane material wound around the spool and including a first sheet portion having a first adjacent edge for selectively joining to a top edge region of a second sheet portion of flexible membrane material when the sheet of flexible membrane material is deployed from the spool to encompass the equipment.
A flexible barrier system, comprising:
- an equipment pad adapted to provide parking for the equipment;
- a plurality of anchors connected to a first portion of a perimeter of the pad;
- a spool of flexible membrane material rotatably mounted on a portion of the perimeter of the pad;
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- a first longitudinal edge of the spool of flexible membrane material pulled over the equipment parked on the pad and secured in position using one or more of the plurality of anchors substantially precluding air flow therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.