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Bumper strip for automobiles
| Details |
Inventors: Warren, Monty;
Assignee: Dorfender Products Inc. (Mississauga, CA)
Primary Examiner: Pedder; Dennis H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sim & McBurney
A foldable add-on side protection device for automobiles or the like includes an elongate strip of impact-absorbing resilient material, and an elongate strip of backing material bonded to the resilient material. The resilient material is separated into a plurality of sections of various lengths without interrupting the strip of backing material, so that the backing material may act as a hinge to allow the side protection device to be wound spirally upon itself in a compact and surface abutting manner. Velcro-like hoop and loop pressure attachable material on the surface of the resilient material and the surface of the backing material at spaced locations is provided for detachably connecting adjacent portions of the side protection device together when in the wound-up condition. A number of lengths of magnetic strip material are bonded to the resilient material remote from the backing material, to allow the side protection device to be magnetically adhered to a metallic vehicle. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Attention is first directed to FIG.
1, which is a line drawing representing the "scrolled" configuration of various foldable sections of an elongated side protection device.
The lines numbered 1-10 do not correspond precisely to the relative lengths of the sections, but are merely to show how the individual sections are folded.
FIG.
2 is an accurate edge view of the side protection device in folded condition.
In order to allow the folding of the individual sections, it is important to understand the structure of the device itself, and this is shown best in FIG.
3.
The device comprises firstly an elongate strip 20 of impact-absorbing resilient material, and an elongate strip 24 of resilient backing material bonded to the resilient material 20.
The strip 20 of resilient material is separated into a plurality of sections of various length, these being the sections denoted by the numbers 1-10 in FIG.
1, without interrupting the strip 24 of backing material, thereby to allow the backing material 24 to act as a hinge at the locations of separation, and further to allow the side protection device itself to be wound upon itself in a compact manner.
One of the locations of separation is shown at 22 in FIG.
3.
Looking at FIGS.
1 and 2, it will be seen that the particular embodiment of the invention illustrated in these figures is such that the resilient material 20 is separated into sections of various lengths, thereby to facilitate the wrapping up of the device in a compact manner.
More particularly, the various sections, beginning from one end, have the following sequence: (a) a first section 1 having a first length which may be in the region of 15" to 16" as a non-limiting example; (b) a second section 2 having a length substantially the same as the first length 1, although it may be slightly longer; (c) a third section 3 having a length substantially the same as the thickness of the side protection device taken perpendicular to the mating surface between the resilient and the backing strip, the thickness being shown in FIG
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