Removable car seat protector

• US 20050140192A1
• Filed: 03/02/2005
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chadwick Hanks
• Original Assignee: Chadwick Hanks
• Inventors: Hanks, Chadwick
• Application Number:
  US11/071,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20050140192A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/219.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/6018 attachments thereof

Abstract

An automotive vehicle seat cover includes two flexible and springlike forms interconnected with a flexible sheet member which is water and moisture impermeable as well as non-tearable. Optionally, the forms are bent so as to provide concave surfaces facing the underlying seat and backrest for stability and slippage retardation. A still further option, are the provision of tabs for receipt within a space between the seat and backrest fixedly positioning the seat cover in place. The seat cover is fully collapsible to a fraction of its size by bending the forms in a proscribed manner and securing the cover with an attached elastic loop, advantageous for compact storage when not in use.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat cover comprising:

first and second forms each folded upon itself in a closed generally circular path of a first area;

a generally rectangular flexible sheet member constructed of a liquid permeable material and having an area about 2-½

times the first area;

first means for securing the sheet member to the first and second forms including an elongate strip folded onto itself with two facing sides received about the forms; and

second means for securing the first means to the sheet member in enclosing relation about the forms;

the first and second forms being located on the sheet member in a substantially spaced apart relation with a centrally located region of the sheet member being free of the forms;

the forms constructed of a flexible, springlike material such that the forms may be bent into a multi-layered package less than about ⅛

^th the first area for storage when not in use.

2. The seat cover of claim 1 wherein the forms are of a generally rectangular cross section

3. The seat cover of claim 2 wherein the form is oriented such that a short side of the rectangle is along the bottom side of the seat cover.

4. A seat cover as in claim 1, in which each of the forms includes a first side that extends transversely of a user and which are located respectively approximately under the knees of the user and a second side located opposite the shoulder blades during use, said first and second sides being convexly curved away from the seat and backrest between the user'"'"'s hips and shoulders when unstressed and substantially flat and uncurved when sat and leaned upon.

5. A seat cover as in claim 1, in which spacer guide means are affixed to the centrally located region of the sheet member facing generally toward the seat and backrest in use for removably positioning the seat cover on the seat and retarding slippage.

6. A seat cover as in claim 4, in which the spacer guide means include first and second tabs that are received in the biteline between the backrest and the seat.

7. A seat cover as in claim 2, in which each of the first and second forms is constructed of a length of spring wire bent into desired shape with the opposite ends thereof brought close together, and a clamp is secured about the end portions of the bent wire holding them unitarily together.