Patent ID: 7766270
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. In combination, a land vehicle having a trailer hitch receiver, a transportable insulated blanket roller supported upon said land vehicle and an insulated blanket, said transportable insulated blanket roller comprising: a hitch tube inserted at a hitch tube first end into said trailer hitch receiver; a hitch-riser coupler coupling to said hitch tube at a location on said hitch tube generally distal to said hitch tube first end and said trailer hitch receiver; a riser coupled to said hitch-riser coupler at a riser first end and extending vertically therefrom to a riser second end; a support-riser coupler coupled to said riser adjacent said riser second end; a bearing support coupled to said support-riser coupler, and having a bearing tube, bearings, and a rotation controller; a winding handle; and an insulated blanket retaining rod coupled to rotate responsive to movement of said winding handle, passing through said bearing tube and said bearings, and having a bifurcation defining as a first bifurcation fork a first material support and as a second bifurcation fork a second material support, said first and second material supports receiving said insulated blanket therebetween; wherein said insulated blanket retaining rod further comprises a center hub terminating at a first center hub end with a handle receiver and has a removable stop adjacent said bearing support and said handle receiver, a fixed stop adjacent said bearing support and distal to said handle receiver, and a center that passes through said bearing support between said fixed stop and said removable stop, a top plate adjacent a first end of said first material support, a bottom plate adjacent a first end of said second material support, a first middle plate adjacent said first end of said first material support and in combination with said top plate surrounding and retaining said first material support; a second middle plate adjacent said first end of said second material support and in combination with said bottom plate surrounding and retaining said second material support, said first and second middle plates surrounding and retaining said center hub, and at least one fastener fixing said top and bottom plates, first and second material supports, said center hub, and said first and second middle plates together.