Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel inventions 02/06

20060037713 - Door unit: A door unit for selectively opening and closing an opening in an object includes a door having a bendable slatted door body and a flexible sheet member positioned over the door body. Guide grooves in the object slidably guide at least the door body, and the respective ends of the...

20060037714 - Door cover: Door covers constructed of plastic sheeting and/or fabric are provided, such door covers being useful for protecting a door such as a security door or a screen door from weathering, and for protecting objects interior to the door. Also provided a window cover protectors, including plastic sheeting and/or fabric protectors...

20060037715 - Dual use combination overhead garage door tracks: A dual use combination overhead garage door tracks to provide a supplement to the conventional residential overhead garage door system, by allowing use of a full screen door to be placed in the standard garage door opening to create more viable space in the garage area...

20060037716 - Roller screen for retractable doors: A roller screen is retrofitted to the lower edge of a retractable door, which screen is the same width as the door and the free end of which is removeably attached to the floor adjacent the lower edge of the door. The roller screen has a driving spring which is...

20060037717 - Shutter with slat guides: A shutter having predetermined requisite strength of shutter framework (1) encompassing slatted-louver apertures (31) with slat-support guides (6). The shutter framework includes structural beams to which ends of slanted slats (5) are attached rigidly. Ends of slat-support guides (6) and (7) are affixed to the bottom and top of shutter...

20060037718 - Device with shutter winding about a drum: The invention relates to a shutter device co-operating with driving means enabling the shutter (1) to be displaced between an open position and a closed position, this shutter (1) being guided by a guide track (4, 5) and being designed to close off a bay (6) or other opening, this...

20060037719 - Stackable folding screen: Screen panels are held together pivotally and respective screen panels have an interior decorative panel fitted within a groove of the side panels and a removeable border panel enabling the decorative panels to be changed as desired. The border panels preferably have outwardly opening holes for receiving pegs to enable...

20060037720 - Brake mechanism for curtain linkage system: A brake mechanism for curtain linkage system, which provides an improved mechanism for application in a curtain set such that when curtain slats are subjected to external forces that produce a counterforce, the counterforce is utilized to achieve a reverse braking effect. The brake mechanism can outwardly transmit motive power...

20060037721 - Hanging products: Hanging products having an opening for suspending the item from a rod, the hanging product being provided with a ring having a gap, the ring further being provided with a movable member for opening and closing the gap....

20060037722 - Healing enhancement apparatus formed from multi-panel curtain with a calming image: Disclosed is a healing enhancement apparatus formed from a curtain bearing a calming image such as an outdoor scene or other image of nature. The healing enhancement apparatus, an alternative to the sterile environment found in most hospitals, has therapeutic benefits. In particular, the calming image, occupying all or most...

20060032592 - Awning assembly: An awning assembly includes an awning and support arms and rafters that are adapted to support the awning from a backing structure both when the awning is in an extended position and when it is in a retracted position. The support arms and rafters are mounted to the backing structure...

20060032593 - Cloth venetian blind: A cloth Venetian blind includes a winding cylinder, a plurality of cloth slats, at least two fixing ropes and a plurality of slat support rods. The cloth slats are arranged under the winding cylinder in parallel, respectively having two long sides and two short sides. The fixing ropes have an...

20060032594 - Window security closure assembly: A security closure assembly for an opening in a building comprises a surround and a security screen attached thereto. The surround includes a surface generally perpendicular to the window and a substantially outwardly facing surface which overlays the exterior of the building surrounding the window, and the generally perpendicular surface...

20060027335 - Upper frame for a vertical venetian blind: An upper frame for a vertical Venetian blind includes a horizontal rod and a slide rail. The horizontal rod is formed axially with at least two rod portions, and the slide rail is axially formed with at least two slide rail portions. The rod portions can be connected together to...

20060027336 - Double-layer roman shade: A roman shade includes a headrail, a first shade cloth mounted on the headrail, and a second shade cloth mounted on the headrail and having a light permeability different from that of the first shade cloth. Thus, the first shade cloth and the second shade cloth have different light permeability,...

20060027337 - Protective net for vehicles: Disclosed herein is a protective net for vehicles, which includes a net part made of steel or stainless steel and a frame. When a driver or a passenger determines that the protective net is needed, the protective net constructed so that the net part made of steel or stainless steel...

20060027338 - Sealed window louver control mechanisms: Existing art sealed windows containing internal blind or louver structures are improved by replacing existing drawstring controls with a slider mechanism. Not only is this improved slider mechanism lower in profile, thereby facilitating a greater use with respect to sliding windows and other applications, the configuration is aesthetically appealing, and...

20060027339 - Variable roller blind structure: A variable roller blind structure includes a roller blind made up of more than one blind bodies that are respectively attached to the underside of a rotatable roller shaft and a stable roller shaft juxtaposed at an interval and mounted at the inner side of an upper beam. The blind...

20060027340 - Tubular slat for coverings for architectural openings: A slat or vane for use in a covering for an architectural opening is suitable for use in either a horizontal or vertical orientation and in a horizontal orientation will not sag or droop, and in a vertical orientation will rotate uniformly along its length when rotated from end thereof....

20060027341 - Pull cord operation mechanism for blinds: A pull cord operation mechanism for blinds includes a fixing mount having a pair of slide grooves and a pivoting groove concaved at the upper edge of left/right sidewalls and a central reinforcing plate thereon respectively for retaining left/right roller ends and a linking shaft of a control member thereby,...

20060027342 - Overhead garage door with decorative house facade elements: An overhead garage door having the appearance of a set of light-transmitting doors, such as French doors. The garage door includes arrays of light-transmitting panels on the door arranged to simulate light-transmitting doors, moldings, doorknobs, and hardware for connecting the garage door to a garage. The door may be formed...

20060027343 - Sectional door cable tensioner: A cable tensioner (20) for a sectional overhead door (D) having a motor-driven counterbalance system (30) including, a spring-loaded axle (31), cable drums (24) carried by the axle, cables (C) attached to and interconnecting the cable drums and the door and forming and releasing cable wraps (29) on the cable...

20060027344 - Door hanging assembly: A door hanging assembly for hanging on a sectional garage door. The door hanging assembly includes a hung object with a top end and a bottom end and at least one hook configured and arranged for hanging the top end of the hung object on the top edge of the...

20060027345 - Colonial style pressure vent hurricane shutter: A colonial style pressure-vent hurricane shutter having predetermined requisite strength of shutter framework (1) encompassing slatted-louver apertures (4) with slat-support guides (7) for protection against storm-borne objects, wind and rain and venting harmful buildups and bursts of pressure from vacuums created on building from hurricane forces. The shutter framework includes...

20060027346 - Horizontal fireproof rolling shutter without a lower rail: A horizontal fireproof rolling shutter without a lower rail, including: an upper rail, which is comprised of an external frame, an internal frame, and a sliding track and disposed at the top of a door; a door panel, comprised of a plurality of vertical panels serially connected with each other...

20060027347 - Guide rail for a window blind of a sliding roof system: The invention relates to a guide rail for a window blind of a sliding roof system. The guide rail includes a retaining portion that attaches the guide rail to a vehicle. The guide rail also includes a guide portion that receives the window blind, and a resilient connecting portion which...

20060021711 - Cornice fixture: A cornice fixture for decorating a wall and a method of installing the cornice fixture are disclosed. The cornice fixture includes a rod from which window treatments are hung and at least one bracket. Typically, the cornice fixture includes a pair of brackets, and the rod is slidably coupled to...

20060021712 - Pull cord structure of roman blind: A pull cord structure of Roman blinds includes an upper beam of a Roman blind having a pull cord fixing seat mounted at both lateral sides therein respectively for locating a first pull cord and a second pull cord thereby, and a transparent blind body attached at the underside thereof...

20060021713 - Novel roller blind structure: A novel roller blind structure includes a roller blind made up of a roller shaft, a side winder with a linkage member attached at both ends of the roller shaft respectively to be actuated by an operating member, and a pivoting post respectively protruding at the outer side of the...

20060021714 - Motorized shade control system: A motorized shade control system includes electronic drive units (EDUs) having programmable control units directing a motor to move an associated shade in response to command signals directed to the control units from wall-mounted keypad controllers or from alternate devices or control systems connected to a contact closure interface (CCI)....

20060021715 - Roller blind structure: A roller blind structure includes a roller shaft, a winding device with a linkage member attached at both ends of the roller shaft respectively to be actuated by an operating member for controlling the rolling or unrolling operation of a blind body. A pivoting rod is disposed at the outer...

20060021716 - Slat control mechanism for venetian blinds: A slat control mechanism for Venetian blinds includes a control assembly, guide sliding assemblies, a linkage drawing plate, and abutting members wherein first rope ladders are suspended between upper and lower beams of a Venetian blind for the abutting position of a plurality of slats in an equal space thereto...

20060021717 - Frayless frangible connection for fabric and vertical blind system incorporating same: A vertical blind assembly including at least one vertical blind panel, the at least one vertical blind panel including a plurality of partially opaque louvers, and a plurality of sheer transparent or translucent spacers. Each of the plurality of spacers is disposed between a respective pair of the plurality of...

20060021718 - Mounting bracket: A one-piece bracket for mounting the headrail of a covering for an architectural opening comprises a generally L-shaped piece having a system for retaining the headrail on the bracket and restricting movement of the headrail on the bracket....

20060021719 - Fabric slat of venetian blind and method of manufacturing: A fabric slat of Venetian Blind, wherein a thin film such as aluminum film with suitable width and fabric material such as artificial fiber or blended fiber with heat-sealing property are used to form the slat by covering said fabric on the surrounding surface of said thin film and having...

20060021720 - Curtain: A curtain includes a fixing rod and a curtain body. The fixing rod is secured at an upper side of a window frame, consisting of a winding shaft in its interior and an endless bead string wound movably on one end of the winding shaft. The curtain body is made...

20060021721 - Curved window shade with inside spring support: A window shade particularly adapted for use with curved windows of motor vehicles. The window shade comprises a curved winding shaft that includes a tubular axle, a plurality of axially connected shaft sections mounted on the axle for relative rotational movement, and a winding spring supported within the axle having...

20060021722 - Bracket mount structure: A bracket mount structure includes a bracket made up of a wall-abutting facet extending at one side thereof to be fixedly attached to the sidewall of a window frame thereby, and a patterned decoration member protruding at the other side thereof wherein the patterned decoration member has a plurality of...

20060021723 - Roll-up window shade with varying transparency: A roll-up window shade assembly for motor vehicles is provided. The roll-up window shade assembly includes a roll-up window shade element having a transparency that is anisotropic over its surface area. As desired, the transparency can change from the top edge of the window to the bottom edge of the...