Cover for automobile visor

• US 7,044,531 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2004
• Issued: 05/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nicole Schaad
• Original Assignee: Nicole Schaad
• Inventors: Schaad, Nicole
• Primary Examiner(s): MORROW, JASON S
• Application Number:
  US11/009,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20050093329A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 296/97.1, 296/97.5, 296/97.6, 296/1.07, 296/1.08, 296/1.11, 160/DIG.3
• US Class Current: 296/97.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 3/0204 Sun visors

Abstract

A cover for an automobile sun visor comprises a front panel, a rear panel, a top margin or a lower margin, at least one aperture, and a seam. The cover is slidably placed onto a visor, and covers warning labels, protects the fabric from dust, dirt and other marring materials, and provides indicia about at least one panel of the cover.

Claims

1. An aesthetic enhancement for an automobile sun visor having a returnably resilient fabric cover for enveloping the sun visor of an automobile, said cover further having indicia affixed to a front surface of said cover such that when the sun visor is positioned for obstructing the sun, the indicia is visible to those outside the automobile, said cover having a width sufficient to obstruct a warning label affixed on the sun visor, and said cover having a removable mirror on a rear surface of said cover, further comprising illumination means positioned adjacently posterior to said indicia for providing illumination to said indicia, said illumination means comprising a power source electrically coupled to a light source.

2. The aesthetic enhancement for an automobile sun visor of claim 1, wherein said cover has a closed end and an open end.

3. The aesthetic enhancement for an automobile sun visor of claim 2, wherein said open end is selectively releasable.

4. An aesthetic enhancement for an automobile sun visor having a returnably resilient fabric cover for enveloping the sun visor of an automobile, said cover further having indicia affixed to a front surface of said cover such that when the sun visor is positioned for obstructing the sun, the indicia is visible to those outside the automobile, said cover having a width sufficient to obstruct a warning label affixed on the sun visor, and said cover having a removable mirror on a rear surface of said cover, further comprising an opening formed along said top margin through which a stem of said sun visor may project, and an additional opening formed along said top margin through which a post of said sun visor may project, said additional opening formed by selective coupling of a front segment and a rear segment.

5. A cover for an automobile sun visor comprising:

a front panel and a rear panel coupled at a top margin or a lower margin by a seam, said front panel and said rear panel manufactured from a returnably resilient material;

indicia affixed to said cover along said front panel so that when the sun visor is positioned for obstructing the sun, said indicia is prominently visible to those outside the automobile;

at least one aperture formed by coupling of said front panel and said rear panel about said seam;

said lateral width of said panels are of a width sufficient to obstruct warning labels affixed or imprinted on said sun visor such that a user can slidably insert said sun visor through said aperture; and

a mirror provided on said rear panel;

further comprising an opening formed in said top margin to permit the stem of the visor to protrude therethrough.

6. The cover claim 5, further comprising a second aperture formed at a side opposite to a first aperture such that said first and second apertures permit a user to slidably arrange the cover on a sun visor, wherein said sun visor slidably passes through one aperture and then the remaining aperture so as to envelop the sun visor.

7. The cover of claim 5, wherein coupling about said seam is selected from the group consisting of fabric stitching, bonding adhesives, hook and loop fasteners, button snaps, buttons, and zippers.

8. The cover of claim 5, further comprising identifying indicia affixed to said cover along said rear panel.

9. The cover of claim 5, further comprising an integral pocket on said rear panel.

10. A cover for an automobile sun visor comprising:

a front panel and a rear panel coupled at a top margin or a lower margin by a seam, said front panel and said rear panel manufactured from a returnably resilient material;

indicia affixed to said cover along said front panel so that when the sun visor is positioned for obstructing the sun, said indicia is prominently visible to those outside the automobile;

at least one aperture formed by coupling of said front panel and said rear panel about said seam;

said lateral width of said panels are of a width sufficient to obstruct warning labels affixed or imprinted on said sun visor such that a user can slidably insert said sun visor through said aperture; and

a mirror provided on said rear panel;

further comprising illumination means placed adjacently posterior to said indicia for providing illumination to said indicia, said illumination means comprising a power source electrically coupled to a light source.

11. A cover for an automobile sun visor comprising:

a front panel and a rear panel coupled at a top margin or a lower margin by a seam, said front panel and said rear panel manufactured from a returnably resilient material;

indicia affixed to said cover along said front panel so that when the sun visor is positioned for obstructing the sun, said indicia is prominently visible to those outside the automobile;

at least one aperture formed by coupling of said front panel and said rear panel about said seam, said sun visor inserted into said at least one aperture;

a first opening formed along said top margin through which a stem of said sun visor may project; and

a second opening formed along said top margin through which a post of said sun visor may project, said second opening formed by selective coupling of a segment of said front panel and a segment of said rear panel by a releasable closure.

12. The cover of claim 11, wherein said at least one aperture is opposite to a vertical margin formed to enclose an opposing end of said cover.

13. The cover claim 11 further comprising a second aperture formed at a side opposite to a first aperture such that said first and second apertures permit a user to slidably arrange the cover on a sun visor, wherein said sun visor slidably passes through one aperture and then the remaining aperture so as to envelop the sun visor.

14. The cover of claim 11 further comprising an integral pocket on said rear panel.

15. The cover of claim 11 further comprising illumination means placed adjacently posterior to said indicia for providing illumination to said indicia, said illumination means comprising a power source electrically coupled to a light source.