Abstract:
A covering and securing structure for a covering body, which includes a covering that can be laid over an object, and a hem located on a circumferential edge of the covering enables a tether to be threaded therethrough. A plurality of recesses are defined in the hem, and each of the recesses enables the tether to be joined to externally located ropes. When the covering body is laid over the external portion of an object to be covered and bound tight, then the plurality of ropes on the circumferential edge of the covering body are joined to the tether and a tugging action is collectively applied to the ropes, thereby achieving covering and securing protective effectiveness.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     (a) Field of the Invention 
     The present invention is related to a covering and securing structure for a covering body, and more particularly to a covering body applicable for use in covering a yacht, car and freight, which renders a simpler and more convenient handling of the covering body, operation, and better enables achieving covering and securing protective effectiveness. 
     (b) Description of the Prior Art 
     A covering body provides protective effectiveness to prevent dust and rain from falling onto articles covered thereby, and can further prevent exposure to sunlight outdoors, which would otherwise result in cracking and damage to the articles. Taking a yacht as an example, when the yacht is berthed and not being used, then a user loads the yacht onto a trailer for transporting, and covers the yacht with the covering body to protect the yacht hull and prevent scratching. There are numerous forms of covering bodies sold in the current market, however they are primarily designed with a covering to correspond to the hull, and an elastic tape is located on a circumferential edge of the covering. Such a design enables the covering to be laid over the hull, whereafter the elastic tape is used to tighten and bind the covering round the hull. 
     However, because of the immense bulk of the hull, thus, when a user covers the hull with the covering body, the hull must be covered successively from the bow of the yacht to the stern by using the Covering body in order to complete securing and tightening of the periphery of the covering body. Hence, handling of prior art is extremely inconvenient. If the covering body is not adequately tied down, then when outdoors, or during the course of transporting, it is extremely easy for the covering body to be swept up unexpectedly by a strong wind and blown out of position. Hence, there is a need to provide a covering body which is convenient to use and enables secure covering. 
     Referring to  FIG. 11 , which shows a covering body structure of prior art, wherein an elastic tape  47  is located on a circumferential edge. Furthermore, flat woven tapes  31  are stitched to an edge of the covering body and joined to fastening members  20  or retaining rings. However, in order to securely join the woven tapes  31  to the covering body, usually tens of stitches  32  are stitched between the covering body and the tapes  31 . Hence, in such a configuration, because of the excessive stitching of the stitches  32 , the needle of the stitching machine pierces the material of the covering body multiple times, and forcibly pulling down on the woven tape  31  easily results in the covering body being torn open and damaged. Moreover, because the aforementioned woven tapes  31  are directly joined to the edge of the covering body, force subjected thereto will be excessively concentrated at a point, thereby excluding closefitting covering effectiveness of the covering body. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     A primary objective of the present invention is to provide a covering and securing structure for a covering body that realizes effectiveness of convenient and quick handling, which enables the covering body to securely cover a hull, thus preventing the occurrence of blowing-off of the covering body by a strong wind. 
     Another objective of the present invention is to provide the covering and securing structure for a covering body that enables secure covering of a hull by the covering body when force is exerted thereon by pulling down on ropes located at several positions on a circumferential edge thereof, while simultaneously preventing the ropes from damaging the covering body material, thereby achieving effectiveness of maintaining and extending operational life of the covering body. Moreover, the covering and securing structure for a covering body is able to improve regional distribution of strained surface exerted by the ropes, thereby better averaging out the force exerted on the covering body. 
     In order to achieve the aforementioned objectives, the covering and securing structure for a covering body of the present invention is structured to comprise a covering, a tether and a plurality of ropes. A circumferential edge of the covering is provided with a hem that enables the tether to be threaded therethrough, and the hem is cut so as to form a plurality of recesses therein. The plurality of ropes are respectively mutually joined to the exposed tether sections at the recess areas of the covering. To complete structural configuration of the covering body, a strengthening piece is stitched to the hem at the rear end of the covering, and a set of two retaining ring fastening members is located on two sides of the strengthening piece, and two adjacent sides of the strengthening piece enable the tether to pass through the hem. Accordingly, the covering body is able to cover articles desired to be covered, and the tether threaded through the hem is able to clasp round the retaining ring fastening members located at the two sides of the strengthening piece. Whereupon, force is applied to pull on the plurality of ropes of the circumferential edge after binding thereof to achieve convenient and quick handling of the covering body and covering and securing effectiveness. 
     For a complete understanding of said objectives and embodiments of the invention, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  shows an exploded view of a first embodiment according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 2  shows a rear view of the assembled first embodiment according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 2A  shows an enlarged structural schematic view of retaining rings at a rear end of the first embodiment according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 2B  shows an enlarged structural schematic view of a female fastening member located on a circumferential edge of the first embodiment according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 3  shows a partial profile schematic view of a front end of the first embodiment according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 4  shows a perspective view depicting an antislip fastening member functioning in coordination with the female fastening member according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 5  shows, an exploded view depicting disposition of a strengthening piece in a recess according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 6  shows an exterior view depicting the strengthening piece disposed in the recess according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 7  shows a side view of the first embodiment of the present invention in use. 
         FIG. 7A  shows a partially enlarged schematic view of the first embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 8  shows a top view of the first embodiment of the present invention in use. 
         FIG. 9  shows a side view of a second embodiment of the present invention in use. 
         FIG. 9A  shows a partial enlarged schematic view of the second embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 10  shows a perspective view depicting another configuration of a female fastening member functioning in coordination with a male fastening member according to the present invention. 
         FIG. 11  shows a perspective view of a woven tape fastening member stitched to a covering body of prior art. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     Referring to  FIGS. 1 and 2 , which show a covering body  1  of the present invention structured to comprise a covering  10 , a plurality of female fastening members  20  and a tether  30 . 
     The covering  10  can be a flat piece of fabric, and can also be cut and fabricated to be a three-dimensional form to conform to the object to be covered. The embodiment depicted in  FIGS. 1 and 2  depicts a design of the covering  10  cut and fabricated to fit the exterior form of a hull. A bottom side edge of a front end of the covering body  1  corresponding to a bow area and an outer edge of a fabric piece  11  are mutually stitched together, thereby enabling a front end of the covering  10  and the fabric piece  11  stitched to the covering body  1  to form an open pocket  12 , and an elastic  13  is located in a side edge of an opening of the pocket  12  of the fabric piece  11 . A circumferential edge of the covering  10  fabric is folded back and stitched to form a hem  14  that enables the tether  30  to be threaded therethrough (see  FIG. 2B ), and the hem  14  is cut so as to form a plurality of recesses  15  therein. A strengthening piece  16  is stitched to the hem  14  at a rear end of the covering  10 , and a set of two retaining ring fastening members  17  (see  FIG. 2A ) is located on two sides of the strengthening piece  16 . 
     The plurality of female fastening members  20  are respectively disposed within the recesses  15  of the covering  10 . An insertion slot  21  is defined at a front end of each of the female fastening member  20 , and a through hole  22  is defined in a rear end (see  FIG. 2B ). 
     Referring to  FIGS. 2A and 2B , the tether  30  is threaded through the hem  14  of the circumferential edge of the covering  10 , and is simultaneously threaded through and disposed within the through hole  22  at the rear end of each of the female fastening members  20  within the recesses  15 . Moreover, two ends of the tether  30  respectively pass through and are wound round the retaining ring fastening members  17  at the rear end of the covering  10 , thereby completing structural configuration of the novel covering body  1 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 4  which shows another configuration of the female fastening member  20  designed to be located on the covering body  1  of the present invention, and each of the female fastening members  20  functions in coordination with a joining member to effect mutual fastening thereof. The joining member is an antislip fastening member  40  provided with a unidirectional binding rope antislip fastening member  40 , and is used to be fixedly inserted into the insertion slot  21  at the front end of the female fastening member  20 . A rope  43  is located at a rear portion of the antislip fastening member  40 , and a securing end of the rope  43  is secured to a load carrier (trailer)  50  (see  FIG. 7 ). The rope  43  passes through an entrance-exit  42  at a bottom portion of the body of the antislip fastening member  40  and winds round an unidirectional antislip mechanism located within the antislip fastening member  40  (not shown in the drawings), whereafter a pulling end b of the rope  43  extends out one side Accordingly, pulling the pulling end b of the rope  43  enables the rope  43  to achieve an antislip binding effect. The insertion slot  21  of the aforementioned female fastening member  20  and the flexible insertion member  41  of the antislip fastening member  40  can be mutually swapped. 
     Referring to  FIG. 10 , which shows another configuration of the female fastening member  20  of the present invention, and the insertion slot  21  is similarly defined in a front end thereof. However, a fastening slot  23  is defined at a rear end of the female fastening member  20 , which enables a woven tape  24  to thread through the fastening slot  23  and be fixedly stitched to the tether  30 , thereby enabling the female fastening members  20  to be respectively joined to the recesses  15  in the circumferential edge of the covering  10 . Each of the recesses  15  is cut so as to form a rectangular shape, and the insertion member  41  is similarly located at a front portion of a male fastening member  44  of a joining member. A fastening slot  45  is defined at a rear portion of the male fastening member  44 , and a woven tape  46  is threaded through the fastening slot  45  and fixedly stitched, thereby enabling fixedly securing to a securing end by means of the woven tape  46 . 
     Referring to  FIGS. 5 and 6 , which show the recess  15  as defined in the covering  10  of the present invention, wherein the recess  15  is formed by cutting into the edge of the covering  10  to form an inverted V-shaped incision  18 , and a strengthening piece  19  is positionally disposed within the incision  18 . A slit  191  is defined in a strengthening piece  19  corresponding to the incision  18 , and fabric on two sides of the incision  18  together with the strengthening piece  19  are folded back and stitched to form the hem  14 , thereby enabling the tether  30  to extend from the slit  191  of the strengthening piece  19  and be threaded through and wound round the through hole  22  of the female fastening member  20  (as depicted in  FIG. 4 ). Hence, strength of the circumferential edge of the recess of the covering  10  is increased, thereby preventing the circumferential edge of the recess  15  from tearing because of pulling by the rope  43  when using the covering  10 . 
     Referring to  FIGS. 3 ,  7  and  8 , which show an embodiment of the present invention in use status, wherein handling procedure involves first covering the bow of a yacht  51  using the pocket  12  of the front portion of the covering body  1  (see  FIG. 3 ), and design of the pocket  12  prevents a rear section of the covering body  1  from coming away when covering and stretching the covering body  1 , thereby achieving convenient and quick handling effectiveness. Next, the covering body  1  is stretched towards the rear to enable the covering  10  to completely cover the hull of the yacht  51 , and the two end portions, which pass through and wind round the retaining ring fastening members  17 , of the tether  30  located in the hem  14  at the end edge of the covering  10  at a rear end of the covering body  1  are pulled, thereby enabling the covering body  1  to tightly bind the covering  10  round the hull of the yacht  51 . Thereafter, the female fastening members  20  located on the circumferential edge of the covering body  1  are mutually securely fastened with the antislip fastening members  40  of the load carrier (trailer)  50  (see  FIG. 7A ), and each of the pulling ends b of the ropes  43  is pulled to tighten the ropes  43 . Because tightening force of each of the disposed female fastening member  20  is directly exerted on the tether  30 , the covering body  1  is able to more tightly cover the yacht  51 , thereby preventing a strong wind from blowing off the covering body  1 , and simultaneously achieving effectiveness of securing the covering body  1  to the hull of the yacht  51 , thus preventing the occurrence of slipping of the covering body  1 . 
     Referring to  FIG. 9 , which shows a second embodiment of the covering  10  of the present invention, wherein the covering  10  can also be designed with different forms, and is applicable for use in covering freight  61  on a freight truck  60 , thereby preventing the freight  61  at a rear portion of the freight truck  60  from being exposed to sunlight and rain, and simultaneously achieving effectiveness of tightly binding the freight  61 . The covering  10  of the covering body  1  of the second embodiment, as depicted in  FIG. 9 , is a flat blanket body, and the circumferential edge of the covering  10  is similarly folded back and stitched to form the hem  14  that enables the tether  30  to pass therethrough. A strengthening piece  16  is stitched to the hem  14  at the rear end of the covering  10 , and the set of two retaining ring fastening members  17  (see  FIG. 2A ) is located on the two sides of the strengthening piece  16 . Hence, after covering the freight  61  with the covering  10 , the antislip fastening members  40  can be quickly inserted into and joined to the female fastening members  20  located on the periphery of the covering  10  (see  FIG. 9A ), whereafter ends of the tether  30  threaded round the retaining rings  17  at the rear end are pulled tight, and then pulling ends b of the ropes  43  of the antislip fastening members  40  are pulled tight one by one, thereby tightening the ropes  43 . 
     Furthermore, the female fastening members  20  used to join to the antislip fastening members  40  and indirectly achieve mutual connecting effectiveness of the ropes  43  to the tether  30  located within the circumferential hollow hem  14  of the aforementioned covering  10  affords the use of different methods to mutually connect the ropes  43  to the tether  30 , including a binding method to enable joining the ropes  43  to the tether  30  exposed outside the recesses  15 , and a fixedly winding method to enable joining the ropes  43  to the tether  30  exposed outside the recesses  15 . Accordingly, after joining the ropes  43  to the tether  30 , force can be similarly applied to pull on the ropes  43  to affect a tugging action on the tether  30 , thereby achieving tightening effectiveness. 
     In conclusion, the present invention assuredly achieves effectiveness of anticipated objectives, and provides a covering body configuration that enables quick covering and securing effectiveness. Moreover, practicability of the present invention is assured, accordingly, a new patent application is proposed herein. 
     It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.