US 6,981,509 B2
Protective cover for a vehicle
Sergey Sharapov, 18 Dorado Ter. #7, San Francisco, Calif. 94112 (US)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/658,917.
Prior Publication US 2005/0055886 A1, Mar. 17, 2005
Int. Cl. B60J 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 135—88.11 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A protective cover for a vehicle comprising:
a sheet of a flexible material having a length, a width, and opposite ends, said sheet possessing a property of buckling or curving in the upward direction from said vehicle with the formation of a laterally open space between said vehicle and said sheet, said vehicle having an upper surface with an upper surface periphery;
securing means connected to said opposite ends for securing said opposite ends to said vehicle; and
at least one cassette with a slit having a width equal to or greater than said width of said sheet, said sheet being stored in said cassette in a wound state;
said length being greater that the length of said upper surface periphery of said vechicle, said buckling being caused by two oppositely directed forces applied to said opposite ends.