Patent Application
20220136806
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The disclosure relates to trapping devices and more particularly pertains to a new trapping device for protecting objects from impact damage.
The prior art relates to trapping devices, in particular trapping devices to prevent projectiles launched by trimmers and mowers. The prior art does not provide for the base features of the current invention.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shell, which defines an interior space. The shell has a front face, which is open. The shell is configured to position on a substantially horizontal surface between an object, such as a vehicle, a person, or glass, and a source of projectiles, such as a lawnmower, an edger, or a trimmer. The shell is configured to prevent projectiles propelled from the source from striking the object.
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
The shell 12 comprises a frame 20 and a primary panel 22. The primary panel 22 is engaged to the frame 20 defining a top face 24, a rear face 26, and opposed side faces 28 of the shell 12. The primary panel 22 comprises mesh. The primary panel 22 and the frame 20 comprises plastic.
The frame 20 comprises a top member 30, a bottom member 32, and a plurality of uprights 34. Each upright 34 is engaged to and extends between the top member 30 and the bottom member 32 so that the top member 30 is substantially parallel to the bottom member 32. The top member 30 comprises a rear bar 36, a front bar 38, and a pair of side bars 40. Each side bar 40 is engaged to and extends between the rear bar 36 and the front bar 38 so that the top member 30 is substantially rectangularly shaped. The front bar 38 has opposed ends 42, each of which has a respective upright 34 engaged thereto and extending therefrom.
The bottom member 32 comprises a rear rod 44 and a pair of side rods 46. Each side rod 46 is engaged to and extends between the rear bar 36 and a respective upright 34. The side bars 40 may be dimensionally shorter than the side rods 46 so that the bottom member 32 is circumferentially larger than the top member 30. The present invention also anticipates the side bars 40 being dimensionally equivalent to the side rods 46. Each of the rear bar 36, the front bar 38, and the rear rod 44 comprises a plurality of nested sections 68 so that the frame 20 is selectively extensible.
In another embodiment, as shown in
A screen 54 is engaged to the shell 12 and extends upwardly therefrom so that the screen 54 is substantially coplanar with the front face 16. The screen 54 is configured to deflect projectiles propelled from the source toward the object. The screen 54 comprises a framework 56 having a secondary panel 58 engaged thereto. The framework 56 comprises a pair of end rods 60 and a top rod 62. Each end rod 60 is engaged to the top rod 62 and is slidably engaged to the top member 30 so that the screen 54 is substantially rectangularly shaped and so that the framework 56 is slidable relative to the frame 20.
A plurality of rings 64 is engaged to the bottom member 32. Each of a plurality of spikes 66 is selectively insertable through a respective ring 64 into a substrate, such as a lawn. The spike 66 is configured to fix the shell 12 to the substrate.
In use, the shell 12 is positioned between a person, pet, vehicle, glass door, glass window, or any other object that could be damaged, and an area from which projectiles might emanate, such as a lawn being mowed and trimmed.
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 elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
