Cover for an air-conditioner unit

• US 20070221302A1
• Filed: 03/21/2007
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Terry Boone
• Original Assignee: Terry Boone
• Inventors: Boone, Terry
• Application Number:
  US11/726,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20070221302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 150/165
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 1/027 mounted in wall openings, e.g. in windows
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/20 Casings or covers

Abstract

A cover (30) for covering the interior face of a through-the-wall air-conditioner unit. The cover is constructed from three pieces of sheet material (34, 36, 38) to form a front wall, a bottom wall, and two side walls and provide a continuous perimeter margin having a hem (52) containing an elastic shock cord (50) that elongates to a stretched condition to allow the cover to fit over the air-conditioner unit and exert a holding force for holding the cover in place.

Claims

1. A cover that when in place covering an interior face of an air-conditioner unit comprises:

a front wall, two side walls, and a bottom wall, the front wall extending downward from a generally horizontal top portion of a continuous perimeter margin of the cover by curving in the downward direction initially convexly and then generally straightly to meet with the bottom wall along a generally horizontal line from which the bottom wall extends generally horizontally inward to a generally horizontal bottom portion of the continuous perimeter margin of the cover that is vertically below and generally parallel with the top portion of the continuous perimeter margin of the cover, each side wall having a first margin that curves in the downward direction initially convexly and then generally straightly to join with a respective side margin of the front wall, a second margin that joins with a respective side margin of the bottom wall, and a third margin that forms a respective generally vertical portion of the continuous perimeter margin of the cover between the top and bottom portions, the continuous perimeter margin comprising a hem containing an elastic cord for holding the continuous perimeter margin on an air-conditioner unit when the cover is covering the interior face of the air-conditioner unit.

2. A cover as set forth in claim 1 wherein each wall comprises a fleece-lined synthetic material arranged such that the synthetic material forms an exterior face of the cover, and fleece lining forms an interior face.

3. A cover as set forth in claim 2 wherein the synthetic material comprises vinyl.

4. A cover as set forth in claim 1 wherein the sheet of material is essentially non-stretchable and is gathered and puckered along the length of the elastic cord when the elastic cord is not elongated to stretched condition.

5. A cover as set forth in claim 1 wherein the front and bottom walls comprise a single piece of sheet material that is folded to demarcate the front wall from the bottom wall.

6. A cover as set forth in claim 5 wherein each side wall comprises a respective piece of sheet material that is joined to the sheet material containing the front and bottom walls by stitching.

7. A cover as set forth in claim 6 wherein the stitching is placed in abutted margins of edges of the pieces of sheet material so as to be concealed from view when the cover is in place on an air-conditioner unit.