Patent ID: 6502594
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
Canopy structure for creating, selectively and removably, a free-standable, temporary domelike, substantially completely overcovering canopy over a selected article, such as a food article, comprisinga plastically/elastically bendable, at least partially shape-self-supporting, elongate rib, bendable and selectively plastically deformable between opposite ends to assume and retain with memory the shape, generally, of a configurationally stable, elongate arch which is freely placeable in a vaulting, overarching condition over a selected article, and a cooperating, thin, flexible and drapeable, canopy sheet structured so that when it resides in an operative condition relative to said rib, and to an article overarched by the rib, the sheet rests in a draped disposition curving over and along a length of the rib, and in a condition substantially fully covering the article.