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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7958926 | Single-Track stacking panel covering for an architectural opening A single-track stacking panel covering for an architectural opening has a headrail for mounting the covering above and in front of the opening, such as a window or door. The headrail has a single track. Suspended from the headrail and translatable therealong are pan... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7814956 | Pet door An apparatus comprising a first door panel; a second door panel coupled to the first door panel such that the first door panel and the second door panel form a hollow portion of a door panel assembly; and an insulating material placed within the hollow portion of th... | 10/19/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7334587 | Fluid containment assembly for use in hydroblast cleaning An assembly for use in the collection and disposal of water and debris during the hydroblast cleaning of a heat exchanger including a containment shield having an end portion and an annular portion mounted adjacent one end of the heat exchanger such that the annular... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7150127 | Partition system A partition system for office spaces generally includes a framework and a plurality of different types of decorative and/or functional tiles mountable to the framework. The framework includes I- and C-shaped vertical frame members which are adjustably joined by uppe... | 12/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6926062 | Screen element for motor vehicles; in particular, wind blocker A screen element for motor vehicles having a piece of flat material extending in a surface area. The piece of flat material has strands which are inherently stiff to enable the flat material to stand alone without a frame. The strands also provide primary stability ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 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 |
| 5718275 | Water shield Water shield panels which are used in a car wash. The panels prevent water from dripping onto a header over the exit of a car wash. The exit is covered by a door which is made of plastic strips. The water shield panels capture the water during the wash. A... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5592792 | Self sealing potato truck loading dock A self sealing potato truck loading dock is disclosed. This loading dock provides an effective air tight seal which serves to isolate the interior of a warehouse and the potato truck box from the outside air while said truck is being loaded or unloaded. T... | 01/14/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5431490 | Refrigerator/freezer door anti-convection current curtain A vertical curtain is provided with vertical slits therein spaced thereacross, opening downwardly through the lower margin of the curtain and terminating upwardly a spaced distance below the upper margin of the curtain. The upper margin of the curtain is ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4449563 | Counterbalance system for sagging rotating element A slat rotatably supported at its ends has its mass center offset from the axis due to sag. A spring biased mass is attached to the slat for creating a torque when the slat is rotated which counterbalances the torque created by the offset slat mass center... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4384606 | Environmental strip curtain An environmental curtain constructed of flexible, transparent plastic strips suspended in an opening to function as a thermal barrier. The plastic strips are arranged in a partially overlapping relationship. Each strip is defined with one end having each ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4373568 | Reducible volume sun-blind Disclosed herein is a reducible volume sun-blind with which, thanks to its simple yet functional means of adjustment, it is possible to constantly regulate the extent to which direct luminous radiation can pass therethrough. The support frame of the sun-b... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4367781 | Interleaved flexible weather door and method of manufacture A weather door suitable for commercial garages and warehouses made from sheets of flexible plastic having a length at least twice the height of the doorway to be covered and in which the sheet of plastic is slit in such a way so that when it is folded in ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4340106 | Strip door hanging system The individual strips of a plastic strip door hang by clips having a downwardly facing U-shaped portion which snap within an upwardly facing U-shaped portion on a support member so that strips may be easily installed and replaced.... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4335777 | Multiple strips doors A door composed of multiple strip of the type comprising a support with hooks and strips provided with means for hooking to said support, wherein the support takes the form of a channel whose transverse section is in the form of an inverted C, in the base... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4312396 | Strip closure with improved support system A flexible multi-strip closure is supported in a vertically hanging position by means on horizontally oriented structural beads attached to each strip, which beads are retained in a horizontally oriented, inverted U-shape channel which includes an entrapm... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4304174 | Segmented panel curtain opening closure An improved opening closure system utilizing a plurality of curtains supported in a way to cover the opening with alternate embodiments having primary and secondary curtains acting as a thermal siphon and with fan units as a power air destratifier.... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4296792 | Transparent reach-through curtain for open refrigerators A transparent, flexible curtain with spaced access points is provided for installation over the opening of a display type open refrigerator of the sort used in retail food markets. The curtain is comprised of a plurality of elongated, flexible, transparen... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4289190 | Plastic strip closures and methods of protecting the same A bumper strip is employed for obturating an opening. A plurality of such bumper strips may be suspended in depending overlapping relationship in an opening to close the same. Alternatively, the closure may be provided by mounting a plurality of such clos... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4033396 | Oscillating suspension for strips of plastic material Suspension for curtain of plastic strips comprises a beam having a U-shaped section and longitudinally spaced transverse slots. T-shaped hook members are attached to the tops of the plastic strips and extend through the slots so that the cross-bars of the... | 07/05/1977 |
