Patent Application
20190346160
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The disclosure and prior art relates to covering devices and more particularly pertains to a new covering device for an air conditioner condensing unit.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a panel that is shaped and sized complementarily to an upper surface of a condenser unit. A hinge is coupled to and extends between a perimeter of the panel and the condenser unit. A panel magnet is coupled to the panel proximate to the perimeter. The panel magnet is configured to magnetically couple to the upper surface of the condenser unit to couple the panel to the condenser unit to cover the upper surface of the condenser unit.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A hinge 14 is coupled to and extends between a perimeter 16 of the panel 12 and the condenser unit, as shown in
A coupler 20 is coupled to the strap 18 distal from the panel 12, as shown in
A lip 24 is coupled to and extends from the perimeter 16 of the panel 12, as shown in
A panel magnet 26 is coupled to the panel 12 proximate to the perimeter 16, as shown in
In use, the strap magnet 22 is configured to magnetically couple the strap 18 to the condenser unit to hingedly couple the panel 12 to the condenser unit. The panel magnet 26 is configured to magnetically couple to the upper surface of the condenser unit to couple the panel 12 to the condenser unit to cover the upper surface of the condenser unit. The panel magnet 26 is configured to decouple from the condenser unit when the condenser unit is actuated, positioning the panel 12 to pivot relative to the condenser unit.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
