Patent ID: 6945191
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: E05D,E05Y,E06B

Abstract:
1. A protector in combination with a vehicle and a garage for providing visual side to side guidance of the vehicle having a left side rear view mirror traveling through a garage door opening of the garage having a left side member along a left side of a garage door opening and a U-shaped garage door roller track, comprising: a resilient indicator having a flat, elongated, vertically extending indicator strip of a material rigid against vertical displacement, double sided tape attached to and extending along said indicator strip, and a plurality of brightly colored, fuzzy balls vertically arrayed along said tape, a substantially horizontally extending, flat, elongated support, with vertical surfaces, having an indicator end portion that wraps around said indicator strip to attach said support to said indicator, and means for mounting including flat, elongated first and second clamp portions, a threaded bolt and a threaded nut, said first clamp portion having a hooked first end that hooks onto said track, said second clamp portion having a hooked first end that hooks onto said track opposite said first end of said first clamp portion, said first and second clamp portions wrapping around said track, meeting, and extending away from said track in an overlapping configuration, said bolt extending through said first and second clamp portions where said first and second clamp portion overlap, and said nut threading onto said bolt to clamp said first and second clamp portions to said track, said second clamp portion having an elbow and a spaced second end with said second clamp portion extending rearwardly and outwardly from said track to said elbow and inwardly from said elbow to said second end, with said support being positioned in an overlapping relationship with said second clamp portion between said elbow and said second end of said second clamp portion, and said support having spaced clips that wrap around said support and said second clamp portion to adjustably secure said support to said means for mounting, to extend said indicator a selected horizontal clearance distance into said garage door opening from said left side member whereby said indicator contacts said left side rear view mirror to guide a driver to correctly laterally align the vehicle in said opening.