Self securing concealable seat cover

• US 5,829,828 A
• Filed: 05/19/1997
• Issued: 11/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aklog Asfaw
• Original Assignee: Aklog Asfaw
• Inventors: Asfaw, Aklog
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Barfield, Anthony D.
• Application Number:
  US08/859,531
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 297/218.2, 297/228.1, 297/219.1, 297/228, 297/253, 297/184.1, 297/184.11, 297/226
• US Class Current: 297/219.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/11 for chairs for headrests only A47C7/386; removable protective covers for car seats B60N2/60

Abstract

A retractable seat cover mounted in a rigid housing with a retractable seat cover sheet rollably releasable and rollably retractable to enable the seat cover sheet to extend over a seat cushion with the rigid housing including an exterior cushion engaging surface so that when the housing is wedgedly inserted between the junction of backrest cushion and a seat cushion the resiliency of the backrest cushion and the seat cushion cause the cushions to hold the retractable seat cover in a usable but substantially concealed condition.

Claims

1. For providing a temporary covering for a vehicle seat, in combination:

a vehicle seat having a back rest cushion and seat cushion, a back edge of said seat cushion in close proximity to a bottom edge of said back rest cushion;

a housing snugly but removably wedged between the bottom edge of said back rest cushion and the back edge of said seat cushion;

a cylindrical section on said housing;

a sheet of seat covering material retractably coiled in said cylindrical section; and

a gripping member attached to said sheet extending out of said cylindrical section for pulling said sheet out of said cylindrical section and over the seat cushion.

2. The invention as described in claim 1 further including:

a protrusion on said housing spaced from said cylindrical section forming a valley area therebetween for engaging the bottom edge of said back rest cushion.

3. The invention as described in claim 2 in which said protrusion is cylindrical and generally parallel to said cylindrical section.

4. The invention as described in claim 1 wherein said cylindrical section contains a spring for retracting the seat covering material into the cylindrical section.

5. A device for wedging into a vehicle seat between a bottom edge of a back cushion and a back edge of a seat cushion to provide temporary covering for the seat cushion, said device comprising:

a platform section;

a cylindrical section attached to said platform section;

a retractable sheet of seat covering material coiled in said cylindrical section;

a gripping member attached to said sheet extending out of said cylindrical section for pulling said sheet out of said cylindrical section and over the seat cushion;

a cylindrical protrusion attached to said platform section spaced rearwardly from and generally parallel to said cylindrical device, a space between said protrusion and said cylindrical section defining a valley for receiving at least in part the bottom edge of the back cushion.