MOTOR DRIVEN PATIO COVER

• US 3,801,809 A
• Filed: 03/14/1973
• Issued: 04/02/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Doyle D. Slade
• Original Assignee: Doyle D. Slade
• Inventors: Slade, Doyle D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moses, Richard L.
• Application Number:
  US05/341,140
• Time in Patent Office: 384 Days
• Field of Search: 240/2R,3,4,1R,67 135/2M,DIG.10
• US Class Current: 362/134
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/38 with a cable
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/006 General building constructions or finishing work for buildings, e.g. roofs, gutters, stairs or floors; Garden equipment; Sunshades or parasols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 135/91 Illuminated cane or umbrella

Abstract

A device which is motorized to form cover means for furniture from the sun and the rain. This device consists primarily of an umbrella-like structure having flood lamps secured to it, the structure being raised and lowered by switch means secured to the pipe which slideably carries a sleeve secured to the umbrellalike structure.

Claims

1. A patio cover comprising, an elongated pipe carried by said cover providing guide means for a sleeve and a pin, an anchor member carried by said pipe providing support means for said pipe within the ground, a motor with sprocket and chain means carried by said device for raising the cover portion secured to said sleeve, flood lamp means carried by said device and table means carried by said pipe for use by persons seated beneath said cover portion, the motor driving said device being secured to said anchor beneath a protective cover and the sprocket of said motor carrying an endles chain secured to a sprocket within the lower extremity of said pipe, said sprocket being supported upon a shaft scured within said pipe and said sprocket secured to said shaft within said pipe carrying an elongated endless chain carried over an upper sprocket, said upper sprocket being secured to a pin within the upper extremity of said pipe.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein the pin carried transversely of said sleeve is slideable within a transverse and elongated slot of said pipe, said pin being also secured to an arm member fixedly secured to said chain thus enabling said motor to lower and raise the upper cover, said upper cover being secured fixedly to said sleeve by brace means and said flood lamps are secured to said braces.

3. The combination according to claim 2, wherein said flood lamps are connected by an expandable cord, the opposite end of said expandable electric cord being terminated at a switch box secured to the outer periphery of said pipe, said switch box extending through a conduit secured also to said outer periphery of said pipe, said conduit extending over the peripheral surface of the cover protecting said motor, said switch box also including switch means for the operation of said motor for raising and lowering said upper cover.