Patent ID: 8584719
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: B60J

Abstract:
1. A cover assembly for attachment to a door of a motor vehicle to protect an exterior surface of its panel, said cover assembly comprising: first and second, generally rectangular cover panels of padding material, each of said cover panels having at least one height dimension, taken between upper and lower edges thereof, and at least one width dimension taken between opposite lateral edges thereof, the at least one height dimension of said first cover panel and of said second cover panel having substantially the same value; means for disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another with adjacent lateral marginal portions thereof overlapped so as to provide a substantially continuous protective cover subassembly; means for disengageably attaching, about structure of the protected vehicle door that extends upwardly from and beyond the door panel, upper portions of said assembled cover panels so as to dispose said protective cover sub-assembly over the exterior surface of the protected door panel with interior face portions of said cover panels lying thereagainst and with exterior face portions thereof exposed; and means for disengageably attaching lower portions of said assembled cover panels, so disposed, to lower portions of the protected vehicle door panel; said means for disengageably affixing said first and second cover panels to one another being constructed for varying the extent of overlap of said adjacent lateral marginal portions of said cover panels so as to correspondingly vary the distance between the mutually remote, outer lateral edges thereof and thereby vary the effective width of said protective cover subassembly, and said means for disengageably affixing comprising a hook-and-loop type fastener arrangement comprised of a loop component and a hook component interengagable therewith, a first one of said components of said fastener arrangement being provided on at least said lateral marginal portion of said first panel and on the normally exterior face thereof, and the other of said components of said arrangement being provided on at least said lateral marginal portion of said second panel and on the normally interior face thereof, said second panel having a surface area defined by the height and width thereof, a majority of said surface area being effectively covered by said other of said components of said fastener arrangement, extending from adjacent an inner lateral edge of said second panel, to enable effective interengagement of said components of said fastener arrangement selectively at a plurality of overlapping positions of said adjacent lateral marginal portions of said first and second cover panels.