Patent ID: 8359984

Claim:
A portable automated vent cover comprising: a telescoping tube including an outer support tube and an inner cover tube, an inner perimeter of said outer support tube is sized to slidably receive said inner cover tube; a vent cover plate having a bottom attached to a top of said inner cover tube; a drive system includes an up-down switch, a drive motor and at least one relay, a drive shaft of said drive motor is engaged with said inner cover tube, said up-down switch selectively sends electrical power to said drive motor through said at least one relay to raise and lower said vent cover plate; and a mobile tripod is attached to a bottom of said outer support tube; and a stop collar is attached to said inner cover tube, a limit switch is retained on said outer support tube, said stop collar actuating said limit switch to cut power to said motor when said vent cover plate is near a bottom of a downward limit.