Patent ID: 7185920

Claim:
A cover system for reducing spray and debris flying from wheels or tracks of a vehicle in motion, comprising, for each side of the vehicle: an elongated flexible cover having first and second ends and a width sufficient to extend laterally outwardly beyond an outer extent of the wheels or tracks of the vehicle; first and second cover housings, one of said housings adapted to contain said cover in a rolled, retracted condition thereof, and the other of said housings adapted to anchor a free end of said cover in an extended condition thereof, said first housing being removably mountable to a frame of said vehicle forward of said wheels or tracks so as to extend laterally outwardly of said frame, and said second housing being removably mountable to said frame rearward of said wheels or tracks so as to extend laterally outwardly of said frame; and at least one support bar removably mountable to said frame intermediate said first and second housings so as to extend laterally of said frame beyond the outer extent of said wheels or tracks for supporting said cover in the extended condition thereof.