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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1998
Benson Zinbarg, Stamford, CT (US);
Sun Hill Industries, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A garage door decorative cover assembly for use on an exterior surface of a garage door made of a plurality of door panels permitted to rotate relative to each other when the garage door moves from a closed position to an open position includes at least one flexible cover panel, a fixing component, and a weighted holding mechanism. The flexible cover panel has a first end, a second end, a front surface and a back surface. The fixing component fixedly attaches the first end of the cover panel to the surface of the garage door, and the weighted holding mechanism couples the second end of the cover panel to the surface of the garage door such that the cover panel is coupled to the garage door is in both open and closed positions. The weight of the holding mechanism maintains the cover panel in a taut state whether the garage door is open or closed. The cover panel is provided with fanciful holiday, seasonal, or other celebratory indicia. According to another embodiment of the invention, the cover panel is multi-component, and the indicia on the several component panels, in side-by-side display on the garage door, together form a composite illustration.