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 Title: |
US3870061:
AUTOMOBILE MOUNTED SHELTER
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Lowery, James I.; Houston, MS 38851
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1975-03-11
/ 1973-04-03
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| Application Number: |
US1973000347484
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
E04H 15/06;
Core:
E04H 15/00;
IPC-7:
E04F 10/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
135/088.07;
135/087;
135/140;
Original:
135/005.A;
135/001.A;
135/007.1A;
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| Field of Search: |
135/1 R,1 A,5 R,5 A,7.1 R
160/368 S
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| Priority Number: |
| 1973-04-03 |
US1973000347484 |
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| Abstract: |
Attachable and detachable shelter means for use on and in conjunction with the engine-equipped end of a conventional-type automobile. Although the invention lends itself to family use at camp sites, picnic and beach areas, it was expressly designed to protect a user, a workng mechanic for example, from sunny, rainy and inclement environmental conditions. It is characterized, broadly construed, by a portable frame structure and canvas, plastic or equivalent weather-proof cover means spread over and protectively covering and marginally attached to oriented portions or members of the frame structure. A forward vertically disposed main supporting post has an upper end retentively connected to a forward marginal portion of the frame structure. Surface contacting means (a floor or ground) is connected to a lower end of said main post and embodies bracket means operatively connected to a predetermined portion of the car's bumper. The ready-to-use shelter also embodies, among other features, a short vertically disposed and adjustable companion or auxiliary post which is carried by a rearward portion of the frame structure and has a lower end retentively perched atop a suitable surface portion of the automobile roof.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
O'Brien, Clarence A. ;
Jacobson, Harvey B. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Caun, Peter M.;
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None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed as new is as follows:
1. In combination, an automobile having a rigid roof-equipped body and a front bumper, attachable and detachable shelter means designed and adapted to shield and protect a user, a working mechanic for example, from sunny, rainy and inclement weather conditions, said means comprising a substantially horizontal roof spanning frame structure, flexible weather-proof cover means spread over, protectively covering and operatively attached to oriented portions of said frame structure, a forward vertically disposed main supporting post having an upper end retentively connected to a forward marginal portion of said frame structure, floor surface contacting means connected to the lower end of said post and embodying a rearwardly directed surface contacting bracket means provided at its rear end portion with an upwardly projecting portion operatively connected at its upper end portion to a predetermined portion of said bumper, an auxiliary vertically disposed supporting post carried by a rearward portion of said frame structure and having a lower end retentively perched atop a suitable surface portion of said roof, said bracket means being of an effective horizontal length that it functions to locate and space said main supporting post forwardly of the bumper in a manner that the mechanic at work is afforded ample space and room to work on the front engine-equipped end of the automobile for whatever purposes required.
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