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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7345886 | Electronic device enclosure with sliding and pivoting doors An electronic device enclosure with sliding and pivoting doors. An opening of the electronic device enclosure provides access to electronic componentry. A first door and a second door are for covering the opening, the first door movably coupled and opposably slidabl... | 03/18/2008 |
| 6969130 | Enclosure for electronic devices An electronic device enclosure is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the enclosure includes a housing and at least one door pivotally connected to the housing, wherein the door is pivotally moveable between a closed position and an open position about a first p... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6674255 | Remote controlled window treatment and/or lighting system An improved window covering and lighting system for a window in a room includes a plurality of cornices, each cornice including a window covering supported by the cornice and movable between an open position and a closed position, an actuator supported by... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6363666 | Safety device for preventing a skylight from being opened from outside The invention relates to a device for preventing insertion from the outside of instruments that could pivot the control bar situated on the inside of the skylight. The device is constituted by a box and two narrow strips positioned in an offset manner so ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6253393 | Door for shower enclosure A door for shower enclosures has at least two door leaves disposed side-by-side in a closed state of the door, a continuous vertical hinge element connecting the door leaves so that upon opening of the door one of the door leaves pivots forward about a ro... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5927011 | Child and pet safety gate A self-aligning, simple to use and reliable child/pet safety gate (2) that is removably mounted by a support assembly (4) to an existing room door (12) by hanging the support assembly on the room side doorknob (10) without the use of mounting hardware is ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5709050 | Mezzanine safety gate A staging area for an elevated mezzanine or platform includes side railings and elevated center stanchions providing a pivot for a gate assembly alternately closing the ends of the side railings enclosing at all time at least three sides of the staging ar... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5680721 | Currency operated modular display device A currency operated display device is disclosed, the device being in the nature of a public bulletin board and having a mounting structure, a plurality of modules attached to the mounting structure each with at least one normally closed and secured displa... | 10/28/1997 |
| 4641460 | Semi-manually operated service window An access window for use in fast food establishments and other similar drive-thru business establishments is disclosed. The window broadly comprises a semi-manually operated closing mechanism along with two planar window members. The closing mechanism emp... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4442630 | Door control A Door Control designed especially for a service passage in a cubicle disposed, say, at or near the entrance of a quick food establishment or the like, i.e., for serving customers on one side of the passage by an employee on the other side. This applicati... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4257199 | Stadium cover A stadium cover includes a pair of complemental compartmented canopies which are filled with a gas such as helium and which are moored or anchored by two or more winches to enable selective manipulation of their position. The winches act through cable set... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4136769 | Door operating mechanism A mechanism for opening and shutting hinged doors, having special utility for discharge doors on silage elevators remotely operable by control ropes, which mechanism is firmly held in both open or closed position by gravity force holding the mechanism aga... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4134230 | Motorcycle racing starting gate A starting gate for motorcycle racing of the moto-cross type including a plurality of individual U-shaped members each of which can be raised to a cocked position ahead of the front wheel of a racing motorcycle, a camming device for maintaining the member... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4024671 | Mutually counterbalancing upper and lower flap doors of wide doorway Upper and lower flap doors respectively hinged to an upper lintel member and to a lower sill member of a doorway frame constituting almost the entire side wall of the body of a van type motortruck to swing open respectively outwardly and upwardly to a hor... | 05/24/1977 |
