Portable garage apparatus

A portable garage apparatus for providing shelter to a vehicle for people who don't have a garage. The portable garage apparatus includes a portable building structure having a floor, a top wall, side walls, an opening in a back end thereof, and an opening in a front end thereof; and also includes a plurality of doors securely attached to the building structure; and further includes a door opening and closing assembly; and also includes an alarm-sounding assembly for unauthorized entry into said portable building structure.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a vehicle protecting enclosure and more particularly pertains to a new portable garage apparatus for providing shelter to a vehicle for people who don't have a garage.

2. Description of the Prior Art

The use of a vehicle protecting enclosure is known in the prior art. More specifically, a vehicle protecting enclosure heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.

While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new portable garage apparatus. The inventive device includes a portable building structure having a floor, a top wall, side walls, an opening in a back end thereof, and an opening in a front end thereof; and also includes a plurality of doors securely attached to the building structure; and further includes a door opening and closing assembly; and also includes an alarm-sounding assembly for unauthorized entry into said portable building structure.

In these respects, the portable garage apparatus according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing shelter to a vehicle for people who don't have a garage.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of vehicle protecting enclosure now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new portable garage apparatus construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing shelter to a vehicle for people who don't have a garage.

The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new portable garage apparatus which has many of the advantages of the vehicle protecting enclosure mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable garage apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicle protecting enclosure, either alone or in any combination thereof.

To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a portable building structure having a floor, a top wall, side walls, an opening in a back end thereof, and an opening in a front end thereof; and also includes a plurality of doors securely attached to the building structure; and further includes a door opening and closing assembly; and also includes an alarm-sounding assembly for unauthorized entry into said portable building structure.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new portable garage apparatus which has many of the advantages of the vehicle protecting enclosure mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable garage apparatus which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art vehicle protecting enclosure, either alone or in any combination thereof.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a new portable garage apparatus which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new portable garage apparatus which is of a durable and reliable construction.

An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such portable garage apparatus economically available to the buying public.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus for providing shelter to a vehicle for people who don't have a garage.

Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus which includes a portable building structure having a floor, a top wall, side walls, an opening in a back end thereof, and an opening in a front end thereof; and also includes a plurality of doors securely attached to the building structure; and further includes a door opening and closing assembly; and also includes an alarm-sounding assembly for unauthorized entry into said portable building structure.

Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus that protects one's vehicle from the elements of the environment which could damage the vehicle in some manner.

Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable garage apparatus that can be easily and conveniently set up any where desired by the user.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to FIGS. 1 through 7 thereof, a new portable garage apparatus embodying the principles and concepts of the present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral 10 will be described.

As best illustrated in FIGS. 1 through 7 , the portable garage apparatus 10 generally comprises a portable building structure 11 having a floor 13 , a top wall 12 , side walls 14 , an opening 18 in a back end 17 thereof, and an opening 16 in a front end 15 thereof. The building structure 11 includes air vents 32 extending through the side walls 14 and also includes mesh-like members 22 conventionally covering the air vents 32 for allowing outside air to enter the building structure 11 . The building structure 11 also includes a ramp 26 securely and conventionally attached to an end of the floor 13 at the back end 17 thereof and being adapted to allow a vehicle to enter the building structure 11 through the opening 18 in the back end 17 . The building structure 11 further includes an opening 19 extending through one of the side walls 14 thereof and also includes a lower track 20 being securely and conventionally disposed upon a portion of the floor 13 along a side edge thereof including where the opening 19 in the side wall 14 is located and includes an upper track 20 securely disposed upon the side wall 14 and extending along a top edge of the opening 19 in the side wall 14 . Each of the front 15 and back 17 ends has an upper portion and a lower portion with each of the upper and lower portions being curved and bowed relative to one another to essentially be shaped like that of the front and back end of the vehicle.

A plurality of doors 23 - 25 are securely and conventionally attached to the building structure 11 , and include a front door 23 which has an end hingedly attached to the top wall 12 and being closeable over the opening 16 in the front end 15 of the building structure 11 , and also include a back door 24 having an end which is hingedly attached to the top wall 12 and being closeable over the opening 18 in the back end 17 of the building structure 11 , and further include a side door 25 which is slidably disposed upon the tracks 20 and which is closeable over the opening 19 in the side wall 14 . Each of the front 23 and back 24 doors has a first end portion and a second end portion with each of the end portions being curved and bowed relative to one another to essentially be shaped like that of a front and back end of a vehicle.

A means for opening and closing the doors 23 - 25 includes solar energy panels 21 , 22 disposed in said top wall 12 of the building structure 11 and connected to wires 34 , and also includes a solar battery 33 securely stored in the building structure 11 and being connected to the wires 34 , and further includes cylinder members 29 each being securely and pivotally attached to an inner side of one of the side walls 14 adjacent to a respective one of the doors 23 - 25 , and also includes arm members 30 each being extendably and retractably disposed in a respective cylinder member 29 through an open end thereof and being securely attached to a respective door 23 - 25 , and further includes a control unit 28 securely and conventionally disposed inside the building structure 11 and being connected to the cylinder 29 and arm 30 members for extending and retracting the arm members 30 and also being adapted to be connected to a power source which is the solar battery 33 , and also includes a remote radio transmitter 31 for energizing the control unit 28 to open and close the doors 23 - 25 .

An alarm-sounding means for unauthorized entry into the portable building structure 11 includes a blinking light-emitting and alarm-sounding member 27 being securely and conventionally disposed in the top wall 12 and extending upwardly therefrom and also including the control unit 28 which is connected to the doors 23 - 25 and to the light-emitting and alarm-sounding member 27 , and further includes the remote radio transmitter 31 for energizing the control unit 28 to set the light-emitting and alarm-sounding member 27 which is energized upon any one of the doors 23 - 25 being opened.

In use, the portable building structure 11 can be positioned anywhere desired by the user usually where there is not a garage on site. To enter the building structure 11 , the user would use the remote radio transmitter 31 to open the back door 24 and then also use the remote radio transmitter 31 to close the back door 24 . The user can exit the building structure 11 through the side door 25 by using the remote radio transmitter 31 . To protect the vehicle, the user can activate the light-emitting and alarm-sounding member 27 by using the remote radio transmitter 31 .