Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel inventions 12/07

20070295459 - Control system for uniform movement of multiple roller shades: A system for controlling a roller shade having a roller tube windingly receiving a shade fabric varies roller tube rotational speed for constant linear shade speed. The desired linear shade speed, roller tube diameter and shade fabric thickness and length are stored in a memory for use by a microprocessor.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Patent Docketing One Logan Square

20070295460 - System for controlling a roller shade fabric to a desired linear speed: A system for controlling a roller shade having a roller tube windingly receiving a shade fabric varies roller tube rotational speed for constant linear shade speed. The desired linear shade speed, roller tube diameter and shade fabric thickness and length are stored in a memory for use by a microprocessor.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Patent Docketing One Logan Square

20070295461 - Curved brace edge connection fitting of window: A curved brace edge connection fitting and a curved brace paired window edge connection fitting and a window structure are provided. A coupling intensity of existing modular edge connection fittings can be heightened to simultaneously enhance air-tightness and heat insulation and to further provide effects of curved design and easy... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070284051 - Storm curtain with counterbalance system and drive component protection: A storm curtain assembly (10) includes a fabric curtain (11) which may be wound onto a roll (17) and stored within a canister housing (16) when not in use, and substantially unwound from the roll (17) to cover an opening in a building. When unwound, a lock bar (18) is... Agent: Andrew B. Morton Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070284053 - Assembly to lock a storm curtain adjacent to an opening in a building: An assembly for covering a building opening that provides a shaft positioned at one end of the building opening, a curtain carried by the shaft, and a locking mechanism at the opposed end of the building opening from the shaft that selectively holds the curtain in a locked position to... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20070284054 - Retractable window curtain device: A retractable window curtain device, the structural configuration of which is comprised of a top curtain rail, a middle curtain rail, a bottom curtain rail, a curtain, two pulleys, parallel thinness rods, rings, hooks, the first draw cord, the first vertical strings, the second draw cord, and the second vertical... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070284055 - Collapsible door and window decorative article structure: A collapsible door and window decorative article structure comprises a set of counterweight boards attached to the bottoms of both lateral sides of a fan-shaped blind body. The underside of each counterweight board has a recessed groove with insert pieces symmetrically extending at both side edges. A support seat is... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070284056 - Door and window ornamental article positioning device: A door and window ornamental article positioning device includes a support unit equipped with stop plates and a support mount to be mounted to a central hollow-out portion of a fan-shaped blind body having a counterweight board fixedly attached to the underside of both end sides respectively. The stop plates... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070284052 - Door with retractable screen: A door incorporating at least one movable glass insert or window sash slidably disposed in at least one track thereof. An end of the insert is coupled to an end of a spring biased roll of screen. As the insert moves from the spring biased roll, the screen is extracted... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070284057 - Door assembly for an appliance and corresponding method: An appliance including a chassis having a top, a bottom, a left and right side opposite one another other and connecting the top and the bottom, and a back opposite an opening. The chassis defines a cavity with an opening for accessing the cavity. A door assembly joined to the... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070284058 - Two-component shower curtain: A zippered together shower curtain and valance in which the valance remaining on the shower support rod after the curtain is unzipped for laundering masks the upper zipper track from view and has other attendant benefits.... Agent: Myron Amer, P.C. Suite 310

20070284059 - Vertical blind structure with an easy change of curtain cloth: A vertical blind structure with an easy change of curtain cloth includes a sliding means, a support rack, a connecting portion, and a curtain cloth. The sliding means includes a fixed member fixed at a predetermined position of the vertical blind and a sliding member is moved horizontally along the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070284060 - Non-pull cord operable window blind structure: A non-pull cord operable window blind structure comprises lift cords assembled onto corresponding positions of a head rail, a bottom rail, and a blind body wherein a cord-winding control device with an operational cord attached thereto, and a fixed seat are mounted to both end sides of an accommodating channel... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070284061 - Light regulation structure for slats of shades: A light regulation structure for slats of shades includes an upper rail, a check pulley and a pair of anchor pulleys on each of two sides on the bottom of the upper rail to be wound by a first and a second light regulation rope, and a plurality of transverse... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070284062 - Paneling system: A paneling system for use as a wing and/or return panel for dividing large open office areas into smaller work stations. The paneling system includes a frame having top and bottom surfaces, and side surfaces. Attachment assemblies are used for removably attaching one or more paneling system to one or... Agent: Faegre & Benson, LLP Patent Docketing

20070284063 - Table utility bay door assembly: A door assembly for use with a table top member that forms a table opening, the assembly including a support member mounted to the table top member, a first door member supported by the support member for pivotal movement between a closed position blocking at least a first portion of... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070284064 - Slat base for window blinds: Present invention provides an ingenious way to construct slat base for window blinds, enabling the addition of desired colors or patterns to be incorporated into the slat, by having channels along the length of a slat base, so that add-on materials of desired colors or patterns can be affixed to... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20070284065 - Mounting brackets for hanging blinds and similar structures: A mounting bracket for mounting a headrail employing an upper plate and a lower plate wherein the two plates are rotatably connected.... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20070284066 - Quick-block: Quick-Block consists of a two-piece windshield cover that dispenses from two separate retractable housings on opposite sides of a dashboard and connects in the middle through the use of an attaching mechanism such as Velcro. When a driver parks his car, he or she simply pulls the covers from the... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20070277935 - Curtain: A curtain comprises a curtain panel consisting a set of parallel sections, an upper rail extended over the curtain panel and a cord reel hidden within the upper rail having cords connected to said parallel sections of the curtain panel to control an upper and down stretching of the curtain... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070277936 - Lift cord anchor clip for roman shade: A lift cord anchor clip for securement to a shade roller of a roman shade assembly is described. The clip comprises a spring metal band having a partly spherical shape and defining a throat opening which is narrower than the diameter of the spherical shape band. At least one clamping... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070277937 - Adjustable light-receiving window assembly: An adjustable light-receiving window assembly includes a window and a window covering device. The window includes a window frame and at least two light-transmittable panes mounted on the window frame to define a compartment with an opening in communication with outside. The window covering device includes a light-shielding member extending... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070277938 - Portal covering for controlled environments: An apparatus for opening and closing a portal in a structure in which a curtain having elongated side portions is placed adjacent opposing sides of the portal. A first end of the curtain is attached to a first end of the portal. An opposite end of the curtain is upturned... Agent: Bush Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC

20070277939 - Shutter slat end retention system: An end retention system for a rolling shutter system is provided. The end retention system comprises a fastener that has a head and a shaft, and a washer that has an outer diameter and an aperture having an inner diameter. The inner diameter of the aperture of the washer is... Agent: Dewayne A. Hughes Ice Miller LLP

20070277940 - Blind slat having sealed openings and mimic wooden traces: A blind slat structure having sealed openings and mimic wooden traces includes a plastic slat formed through injection molds with cavities formed on the surface and has a hollow interior and two ends each having an opening. Each of the two ends is inserted into a sealing slot of a... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070277941 - Track and guide system for a door: A vertically operating door and its drive system can be configured to push a door panel along a track to various overhead storage configurations including vertical, horizontal, inclined and coiled. Semi-flexible drive strips extend continuously along lateral edges of the curtain. The system includes a drive gear that engages a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070277942 - Track and guide system for a door: A vertically operating door and its drive system can be configured to push a door panel along a track to various overhead storage configurations including vertical, horizontal. inclined and coiled. Semi-flexible drive strips extend continuously along lateral edges of the curtain. The system includes a drive gear that engages a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070277943 - Track and guide system for a door: A vertically operating door and its drive system can be configured to push a door panel along a track to various overhead storage configurations including vertical, horizontal, inclined and coiled. Semi-flexible drive strips extend continuously along lateral edges of the curtain. The system includes a drive gear that engages a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070277944 - Curtain track assembly: A curtain track assembly includes a flexible rail made from a resilient polymeric material and including an elongate base portion extending along the length of the rail and having opposite first and second surfaces, and an elongate carrier-hanging portion extending along the length of the rail and protruding from the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070277945 - Collapsible outdoor shower assembly: A collapsible shower device is disclosed that has an upper hoop affixed to a structure such as a wall and a lower hoop also affixed to the structure at a pivot point, and a privacy screen attached to both the lower hoop and the upper hoop in which the lower... Agent: Klehr , Harrison Et Al

20070277946 - Partitioning apparatus: A partitioning apparatus. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are apparatuses comprising a base, and a panel coupled to the base. The apparatus is configured to partition a space.... Agent: Lizzeta Galvan