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.
Claims20
An equipment storm shield system, comprising:
- an equipment pad adapted to support the equipment;
- a plurality of anchors located along a first portion of a perimeter of the pad;
- an elongated spool of flexible membrane material rotatably mounted in a spool housing, the spool housing being mounted on a second portion of the perimeter of the pad;
- an elongated opening in the spool housing adapted to permit a first longitudinal edge of the spool of flexible membrane material to be pulled through the opening to remove a first predetermined sheet portion of flexible membrane material from the spool of flexible membrane material, wherein the first predetermined sheet portion is pulled over the equipment parked on the pad and is retained in position using one or more of the plurality of anchors and wherein the first predetermined sheet portion serves as a barrier for protecting the equipment against a storming condition;
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- an engagement member connected to the first predetermined sheet portion of membrane material, wherein each of the plurality of anchors includes a metal frame member permanently mounted in a trench and having an opening adapted to accept a corresponding engagement member.
An equipment storm shield system, comprising:
- an equipment pad adapted to support the equipment;
- a plurality of anchors located along a first portion of a perimeter of the pad;
- an elongated spool of flexible membrane material rotatably mounted in a spool housing, the spool housing being mounted on a second portion of the perimeter of the pad;
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- an elongated opening in the spool housing adapted to permit a first longitudinal edge of the spool of flexible membrane material to be pulled through the opening to remove a first predetermined sheet portion of flexible membrane material from the spool of flexible membrane material, wherein the first predetermined sheet portion is pulled over the equipment parked on the pad and is retained in position using one or more of the plurality of anchors, wherein the first predetermined sheet portion of membrane material further includes a first adjacent edge adapted for coupling to a top edge region of a second portion of flexible membrane material and a bottom edge region of the second portion of flexible membrane material being retained in position using one or more of the plurality of anchors, and wherein the first predetermined sheet portion serves as a barrier for protecting the equipment against a storming condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.