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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8291962 | Window coverings A fabric receiving element for a blind assembly, the fabric receiving element having at least two axially extending slots, each slot defining an opening for receiving blind material, the openings being of different respective widths, the slots including a floor oppo... | 10/23/2012 |
| 7861764 | System for suspending quilts and the like A sleeve is provided which is attachable to a back of a quilt or other object to be suspended from a rod or other elongate object. The sleeve is of generally tubular form including a front panel extending from a bottom up to a top pleat. The forward panel is coupled... | 01/04/2011 |
| 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 |
| 6935402 | Suspended materials having external slits Hanging products having an opening for suspending the item from a rod without removing the rod from its mounted supports. ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6722096 | Frame assembly and frame component for tensioning fabric about a panel of a partition system A frame for a partition system and a component of the frame are disclosed. The component automatically and evenly tensions a fabric about a partition panel. The component of the frame includes a support element and a lockable element. The support element defines a c... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6619003 | Method of assembling a frame assembly for a partition system A method of assembling a frame assembly for a partition system is disclosed. The frame assembly includes a partition panel, a fabric covering the panel, and a frame component. The frame component automatically and evenly tensions the fabric about the pane... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6546571 | Re-enforced shower curtain liner and method for fabricating same The header is heat sealed along the top of one side of the liner body with both ends extending beyond the edges of the liner body. The ends of the header are folded around the edges of the liner body to a position parallel to the other side of the liner a... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6412539 | Drive assembly for opening and closing a rolling door An opening and closing device for an architectural rolling door is provided in which various parts of the device are assembled into a cylindrical-shaped casing with good work efficiency and without looseness. After a casing (6) is divided into upper and l... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6279644 | Screen and frame assembly in which the screen is adhesively secured to the frame A screen bar segment for use in forming a screen and frame assembly in which screen can be adhesively secured to the frame. The screen bar segment includes a tensioning step along one side thereof and adhesive applied along the base of the tensioning step... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6189597 | Hanger ring assembly for curtain A curtain with a hanger ring assembly for mounting onto a supporting rod includes a sheet material and a plurality of hanger units. The sheet material has a plurality of hanger openings formed along a top edge, and a plurality of edge gap each extending f... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6167939 | No-sew drapery system The no-sew window drapery system comprises tucking fabric into a rod. The rod has a profile that creates an opening across the entire length and sufficient space in the interior to accept the fabric. The rod may additionally incorporate a locking system t... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6032433 | Multi-width canopy A fastening device for adjustably securing a flexible sheet comprising a first fastening component (62) having a recess (62a) formed therein. A portion of the flexible sheet is secured in the recess (62a) by cooperation of a second fastening component (61... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5601129 | Roller and clip for mounting a flexible material A roller for supporting and storing a flexible light control material. The roller is a substantially circular cylindrical tube defining an outer surface with circumferentially-spaced, longitudinally-extending ribs integral therewith and extending radially... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5468087 | Means for fixing a gore to ribs of a large umbrella A fixing device includes a block including a cavity to snugly receive a distal end of an associated rib of a large umbrella and an engaging slot, The fixing device further includes a pair of clamping members each having a plurality of piercers on one surf... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5456304 | Apparatus for mounting a retractable covering for an architectural opening An assembly consisting of a covering including a pair of parallel fabric sheets interconnected by a series of spaced vanes forming joints with the sheets along their marginal edges. A roller is inserted into the space defined between a pair of adjacent va... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5365994 | Adjustable fastener for tonneau cover A snap fastener assembly useful for attaching a tonneau cover to a base structure such as a pick-up truck cargo box. The assembly includes a pair of mating fasteners, one of which is attached to the edge of the tonneau cover. The other fastener is slidabl... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5333425 | Tension membrane structure wrinkle elimination A construction system comprising a method and an article employed in said method which is used to engage the edge of adjacent membranes along the top of a beam constituting an arch in a tension membrane structure and pull the membranes toward each other b... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5209600 | Method and apparatus for repairing casings and the like An improved and process for creating a lining in a bore transfers strip wrapped in overlapping spiral fashion about a mandrel to the bore wall such that the edge-to-edge relation of the spirally-wrapped strip is maintained from the mandrel to the bore wal... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5207262 | Tonneau cover system In a system for covering an opening in a structure, the opening having a periphery, the structure having sidewalls surrounding the opening and extending along the periphery of the opening, and the system including a frame system mountable on the sidewall ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5205337 | Structure for hanging curtain on curved frame A flexible transverse-L cross-section support structure is capable of being mounted around curved edges of, for example, window frames, bed-head frames and table tops. The structure is specially suitable to receive one component of a flexible two componen... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5040586 | Banner holding device A frame device (12) for securely holding and hanging banners (14) and the like from buildings and surfaces. The frame has a base portion (16) which is attached to the building or surface and a spring loaded rotating cover portion (18) which covers a chann... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4991640 | Fastening means for fastening a flexible sheet to a body A fastening system is provided that is especially suitable for securing flexible automotive and truck body covers, and in particular tonneau covers, to truck bodies. The system employs cooperating hook and loop type fasteners with a cover member that prot... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4928334 | Joint structure for fabric web having high modulus of elasticity A fabric web having a high modulus of elasticity is used as a spring element in an upholstered article such as a seat or a bed. The fabric web is joined to a metal rod serving as a frame member of the upholstered article by an end portion of the fabric we... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4860467 | Stretching frame with adhesive fastening of a fabric workpiece A method of tensioning screening material on a tension frame for use in a silk screen process including the steps of (1) squaring the material, (2) attaching the material to rotatable frame members along a portion of their length by adhesive (3) rotating ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4805330 | Hanger for a wall covering A hanger for a flexible wall covering in the form of an elongate flexible strip adapted to be attached to a wall adjacent the ceiling, provided with elastically interengageable jaws normally standing apart to admit an edge of the wall covering and thereaf... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4692847 | Illuminated awning assembly An illuminated awning assembly has a frame with an upright rear frame portion having upper and lower frame members and a pair of upright side members extending between respective opposite ends of the upper and lower frame members. A horizontal frame porti... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4676016 | Hanger for a wall covering A hanger for a flexible wall covering in the form of an elongate flexible strip adapted to be attached to a wall adjacent the ceiling, provided with elastically interengageable jaws normally standing apart to admit an edge of the wall covering and thereaf... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4539734 | Tensioning device for the screen fabric in silk screen printing frames A silk screen printing frame includes a tensioning device for tensioning the silk screen printing fabric in such a way that in the side walls of the frame a groove of C-shaped cross-section is arranged. To tension the screen fabric, the fabric is looped a... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4447935 | Device for and method of joining sheet material A device for mechanically joining sheet material, comprising a separable fastener which may have a pair of complementary extruded plastic members provided with resiliently separable interlocking fastener profiles, and at least one, and generally both, of ... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4403642 | Fabric supporting track assembly The assembly comprises first and second tracks of extruded polyvinyl chloride plastic which, when interfaced, become a hinged clamp. When snapped or clamped together, the tracks tighten and securely clamp fabrics of varying weights. By providing relativel... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4339488 | Support web An improved support web, particularly for use in the construction of furniture, comprises a band, which may be made of plastic material having spaced, parallel, longitudinal reinforcing threads such as glass fibers embedded therein and a connecting member... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4280548 | Furniture such as chairs and couches A support for furniture, such as outdoor furniture, has a support frame and stretched thereon is a net or lattice-like arrangement of flat web strips of plastics material; where they cross one another the strips are bonded together by means of thin planar... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4258778 | Roller bar construction An awning roller bar or lead bar is formed from a relatively thin material for attachment to the leading edge of an awning. In one embodiment, the roller bar includes at least one slideway having an exterior aperture for receiving and securing the edge of... | 03/31/1981 |
