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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7390250 | Temporarily mountable strip door system, especially for temporary climate control of an area A temporarily mountable strip door system includes a strip mounting frame. The frame has mounting features to enable releasable coupling to an exterior of an opening in a building. A plurality of flexible door strips are affixed to the mounting frame. The system inc... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7270309 | Apparatus for mounting a flat panel display A mounting apparatus comprising a mounting bracket and a display bracket. The mounting bracket includes a first mounting plate and first and second seating flanges extending outwardly from the mounting plate. The first seating flange includes a first seating channel... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266856 | Fabric-strip curtain for car wash installations The invention relates to a fabric-strip curtain for car wash installations, comprising a support bar (2) that is displace back and forth, on which cleaning strips (3) consisting of a cleaning textile are hung next to one another, each of the strips bei... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7237303 | Curtain suspension device and a method of suspending curtains A curtain suspension device for hanging curtains flatly (for hanging panel curtains) comprises a main rod (16) arranged to a wall and at least two elongate shorter rods (15) with open books (17, 26) at both ends. The short rods are adapted to be... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225851 | Methods and apparatus for displaying decorative ornament curtains When displaying decorative ornaments in vertical chains, that is, as ornament curtains, for example, in light fixtures, gaps or voids between the ornaments can detract from the overall visual appeal. Methods and apparatus of the present invention minimize the gaps a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225935 | Support system for rack elements A support system for rack elements has a support element and a hanging element. The support element has an upwardly projecting suspension rail and the hanging element is provided with a slot, by which the hanging element can be plugged onto the suspension rail. The ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7159637 | Impactable bottom curtain for a rolling steel door To avoid repeated damage to a lower section of a metal roll-up door, the lower section is replaced by a more impactable curtain assembly. The curtain assembly is so readily scalable, horizontally and vertically, that much of it can be manufactured and field assemble... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7073758 | Pole clamp for partition mount A partition mounting system a system mitigates or eliminates sag, or gaps, between an installed curtain and an abutting surface such as a wall or ceiling. The system accomplishes this in a manner that avoids permanent damage to the wall or ceiling surface. A clamp i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7011132 | Strip curtain support system An environmental strip curtain holding apparatus for suspending a plurality of flexible transparent strips forming a curtain includes a bar suitable for mounting to fixed structure adjacent to a location requiring the presence of a strip curtain. A plurality of pegs... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6976763 | Luminescent and fluorescent strip door highlights A margin highlighter is fixed to a strip curtain-holding apparatus and positioned adjacent to one of the lateral or upper margins. The margin highlighter including a luminescent agent in sufficient concentration to provide a visible light emission in the event of li... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6945304 | Flexible-strip hanger for a strip door system and method of making A single-piece molded plastic hanger for flexible plastic strips of a strip door system having a backing-plate portion and a cover portion connected with a continuous hinge portion. The backing-plate portion is mountable to a header of an opening and supporting stud... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941999 | Adjustable strip door hanger A hanger for plastic strips having uniformity spaced apertures along an end portion thereof, to form a strip door across an opening. Uniformily spaced studs are provided on a mountable backing plate to support the plastic strips. A retaining plate retains the strips... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942004 | Partition mount In a spring-loaded curtain mount, the mount includes a pole interface at a proximal end, a compressive mechanism, and a head at a distal end. The pole interface is adapted to receive the end of a standard length adjustable pole or a painter's pole. The compression m... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933030 | Continuous web of flexible plastic strips for strip door systems A continuous web of flexible plastic strips, for use in a flexible strip door system, the continuous web of flexible plastic strips having uninterrupted cuts, of a depth less than the thickness of the web, arranged along lines which are perpendicular to the longitud... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6901771 | Jewel and personal ornament It is an object of the present invention to provide a jewel which can be securely attached to a string-form member or pedestal with a stable frictional force, and which can be easily removed from such a string-form member or pedestal. The base body has a hole, and t... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6766849 | Curtain track adjustment assembly A curtain track adjustment assembly adopted for use on different sizes of doors and windows enables users to drape curtains as desired. It includes a winch to retract or extend a steel cable. A brake paw is coupled with a spring which provides a restoring force to a... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6485225 | Barrier apparatus having magnetic components Throughway barrier apparatus comprises a pair of housings (51, 52; 151, 152) to be sited one to each side of a throughway (58). Each housing is provided with an upstanding surface (53, 54) of magnetic material, the two surfaces (53, 54) facing one another... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6474983 | Heated industrial curtain A substantially transparent thermal barrier for use in an opening between a refrigerated area and an adjacent area having a significantly higher temperature is suspended by its upper margin from a header. The barrier is formed of a plurality of strips pos... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6394171 | Clear plastic industrial traffic curtain A material for use in an industrial traffic curtain formed of a flexible transparent material, such as polyvinyl chloride, having a substantially uniform longitudinal cross-section, which can be achieved by way of a conventional extrusion process. The str... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6050322 | Strip curtain A strip curtain system has an elongated track (10) that has a back side (11) with a bottom flange rail (14) and a front side (12) with a bottom flange rail (14) providing a channel 15. The track back side has a ridge (17) extending above at least a portio... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5996970 | Motorized assist counterweight system for theatrical overhead rigging In a theatrical rigging system, a number of motors can be placed on platforms which can move upon rails to be connected to different theatrical rigging elements. The motors can be randomly attached to operate different overhead hanging devices.... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5836114 | Apparatus for inhibitively preventing birds from crowding Birds, especially, pigeons dislike the presence of a magnetic field because each bird has a biological instinctive ability of sensing the presence of the magnetic field. In order to utilize this biological instinctive sensing ability for the purpose of pr... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5816946 | Portable safety system for isolating on-deck batter Portable safety system for isolating an on-deck batter during a baseball or softball game comprises one or more poles, a length of cord long enough to surround an on-deck area, structure to support the cord and a fastening system for fastening the ends of... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5718277 | Roller blind The roller blind (100) detachably fastened to a winding axis (50) can be rolled up on to and unrolled from the winding axis with the aid of pull cords, in which case the pull cords (20, 120, 220) are constructed in the form of U-like routed pull cord pair... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5520237 | Strip curtain system A strip curtain system having an elongated track adapted to be mounted over a doorway and having two spaced apart rails, a plurality of curtain strips and a plurality of hangers. Each curtain strip has a top end portion and a main body portion. The top en... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5427169 | Flexible garage door screen A garage screen enclosure for attachment to a garage door frame having a passageway which can be opened and closed using a pair of double sided zippers. The screen or portions of the screen can be wrapped around dowel rods and suspended from the garage do... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5146971 | Strip door suspension system A door suspension system has a frame mounting element and a cover element. These elements have projecting clamping elements which cooperate to clamp door strips between them to suspend the strips in a door opening. In addition, one of the cover or frame m... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5127460 | Environmental strip curtain system The present invention relates to an improved environmental strip curtain system which allows for easy installation, removal, replacement and adjustment of the plastic strips. The environmental strip curtain system includes a curtain-holding apparatus and ... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5109913 | Method of opening and closing strip curtain and apparatus therefor A method and apparatus for opening and closing a strip curtain which comprises a plurality of parallel, long hanging strips arranged and vertically. A connecting member for connecting to one end of the hanging strips 7, a plurality of equally spaced opera... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5000243 | Bracket for the modular construction of strip-shaped curtains An inverted "U" shaped bracket to be joined to similar brackets. The bracket including two arms. Each arm has a varying width which is greater at a center portion and is narrower at the ends of the respective arm. A slot is formed in each arm and a "V" sh... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4878532 | Flexible decorative interior screen A flexible screen closing an interior wall opening in a building, has a series of hanging columns made of adjacent tubes of flexible material, each tube having discrete pieces of solid filler material arranged in series along the length of the tube, and e... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4874028 | Temporary detachable doorway screen apparatus A temporary detachable doorway screen apparatus for a doorway in a dwelling comprises a flexible sheet of screening material shaped to cover the enclosed area within the open doorway. The flexible sheet is made from a flexible polymeric material which all... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4865110 | Horizontal cantilevering barrier As the land becomes more populated due to the land being subdivided into smaller tracts the need for barriers to indicate the boundaries of the individual property holdings increases. In many instances it is no longer necessary to provide a fence tight cl... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4776382 | Overlapping strip-curtain construction An overlapping strip-curtain construction for mounting on an elongated rod including a plurality of elongated flexible strip members each having an upper end and a lower end, a plurality of loops formed at each upper end of each strip member as integral e... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4736608 | Heat retaining means Screens for limiting heat losses from heated material, e.g. bars and slabs in rolling mills. Screens are provided in the form of strings of heat insulating bodies composed of metal shells containing insulating material. These screens may form curtains and... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4722325 | Solar shutter arrangement A shutter arrangement adaptable to a solar energy system for either a residential or commerical building characterized by a skylight presented in a roof portion of the building, and a shutter supported on the roof portion and selectively slidable behind t... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4719957 | Partitioning apparatus A screen is made of hanging strands of beads of relatively large size and light weight. The beads are arranged to provide sound and thermal insulation to the extent desired between the spaces in a building on opposite sides of the screen. Two types of str... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4693291 | Curtain-hook assembly An assembly of a plurality of hooks with a particular curtain structure is disclosed. The curtain structure includes straps which extend from an edge of a curtain and a fabric layer attached to the curtain in the vicinity of each strap. Each hook has firs... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4635699 | Retractable safety shield A retractable safety shield is made of a plurality of telescoping support members, each having an identical cross-section and capable of formation by extrusion. Each of the telescoping support members has an elongated slot cut through it for a substantial... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4607678 | Flexible strip door assemblies A penetrable flexible strip closure for covering an opening includes an extrusion secured across the upper end of the opening as a header. The extrusion provides a continuous open ended T slot and individual clamps for each strip extend through generally ... | 08/26/1986 |
