PORTABLE GARAGE

• US 3,600,866 A
• Filed: 03/20/1969
• Issued: 08/24/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edward J. Griffith
• Original Assignee: Edward J. Griffith
• Inventors: Griffith, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Faw, Price C.
• Application Number:
  US04/808,771
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 52/174,64,65,66,143,79,69,125 49/94,96,114,143,142,73 296/1,23
• US Class Current: 52/64
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 11/00 Removable external protective coverings specially adapted for vehicles or parts of vehicles, e.g. parking covers covering of load on vehicles B60P7/00; guard strips for body finishing, identifying or decorating B60R13/04; tents for use as garages E04H15/00
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/04 wheeled, hinged, foldable, telescopic, swinging or otherwise movable
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 6/18 with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions E04H6/14 takes precedence

Abstract

A portable garage for trailer camp and similar use having a bottom firmly supportable atop a suitably flat foundation. It comprises a walled enclosure having a main hinged door at its entrance-exit end, one or more auxiliary sidewall doors, and a linking connection whereby all doors are simultaneously openable and closable. The driver leaves and subsequently reenters the enclosed automobile by way of the sidewall door or doors. The floor-forming bottom is equipped with guide rails and bordering trackways for centering and positioning the automobile. The projecting forward end of the rail means is fashioned into a towing bracket equipped with trailer-type coupling means. Attachable and detachable dolly wheels are installed when the garage is hitched to a towing car for traveling.

Claims

1. A portable garage comprising an elongated automobile enclosure characterized by a horizontal bottom wall providing a floor, a horizontal top wall providing a roof, opposed left and right vertical sidewalls interposed between and connecting said bottom and top wall, a transverse end wall providing a rear wall, said enclosure being open at the front entrance-exit end, a garage door spanning and closing said entrance-exit end, means fixedly mounted atop the interior of said bottom wall for piloting, guiding and centering an automobile when it is housed within the confines of said garage, at least one of said sidewalls having a median portion provided with an opening of a size and shape defining a doorway, a vertically disposed side door horizontally slidingly mounted on an interior of said one sidewall and normally spanning and closing said doorway, linkage means located on the interior of said one sidewall and operatively connecting said garage door and side door together for simultaneous operation whereby when the garage door is moved to an open position the side door is simultaneously moved to an open position and vice versa.

2. The structure defined in and according to claim 1 and, in combination, said one sidewall having a bearing, a crank having a component portion mounted for operation in said bearing, motion transmitting arm means situated on an interior side of said one sidewall and operatively connected with said linkage means and crank, respectively, said crank having an operating end projecting to an exterior of said sidewall and provided with an accessible handgrip for convenient actuation.

3. The portable garage defined in and according to claim 2 and wherein said first named means comprises a pair of spaced parallel coplanar angle irons, said angle irons being coextensive with the length of said bottom wall and being spaced inwardly a predetermined distance from the respectively adjacent interior surfaces of said sidewalls and cooperating with the latter in providing trackways for the wheels of the aforemention automobile.

4. The portable garage defined in and according to claim 3, and wheRein the forward end portions of said angle irons are of a length to project a limited distance beyond the forward transverse edge of said bottom wall, said angle irons having terminal portions joined by a V-shaped member, the vertex portion of said V-shaped member being centrally located and aligned with a central longitudinal portion of said open front and adapted to assist one in lining up his automobile prior to approaching said entrance-exit end.

5. A portable garage comprising an elongated automobile enclosure embodying a horizontal bottom wall providing a floor and adapted to reside flatwise on a stationary support surface, a horizontal top wall above and cooperating with said bottom wall and providing a roof, opposed left and right vertical sidewalls interposed between and cooperatively connecting said bottom and top walls, a transverse end wall marginally affixed to the top, bottom and sidewalls and providing a rear wall, said enclosure being open at its front and defining an entrance-exit end, an openable and closable garage door spanning and normally closing said entrance-exit end, spaced parallel coplanar angle irons fixed mounted atop the interior of said bottom wall and cooperating therewith and said sidewalls in defining a pair of trackways, said trackways being adapted to pilot, guide and center the wheels of an automobile when said automobile is driven into and housed within the confines of said garage, opposed median portions of the respective sidewalls being provided with vertically elongated openings, said openings being of a size and shape that they define selectively usable doorways, vertically disposed side doors horizontally slidingly mounted on interior portions of the respective sidewalls and normally spanning and closing their respectively cooperable doorways, and linkage means operatively mounted on cooperating interior surfaces of the sidewalls and operatively connecting said garage door and side doors for simultaneous operation, whereby when said garage door is intentionally moved to an open position the complemental side doors are simultaneously and conjointly moved to open positions.