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Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel August inventions list 08/10

20100212839 - Safety structure of roman shade: A safety structure is provided for a Roman shade. A shade cloth forms folds, each carrying at least one cord ring through which a lift cord that functions to raise a shade cloth up and down extends. The cord ring is made of a flexible material having a desired stiffness... Agent: Leong C Lei

20100212840 - Cut-resistant strip door: A cut-resistant strip door is provided. The strip includes one or more strips that include a component that makes the strip resistant to accidental or intentional tearing or cutting. In one embodiment, the strips include a metal cable that is attached to the surface or longitudinal edge of the strips.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100212841 - Double-curtain rapid-opening door: The present invention comprises two sheets of canvas fabric or curtains and means for rolling up vertical strips or bands connected to intermediate crosspieces that move along guides when the strips are taken up. The crosspieces have a hollow cross section with an upper ridge and a lower ridge with... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20100212842 - Roller blind and member therefore: A member (4) for a Venetian-blind action roller blind, comprises a bar (8, 8′, 8″) and a slat (9, 9′, 9″) which are connected together at a first hinge (7) in such a way as to be able to pivot, and which have respective outer hooks (5, 6; 5′, 6′;... Agent: Christine Johnson Esq.

20100212843 - Covering for an architectural opening: The present invention relates to end stops for use in retractable coverings for architectural openings where the end stops have impact-absorbing means which are bi-directionally cushioning. The end stop will remain at a dedicated position even after being impacted.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100212844 - Roller shade and manufacturing method thereof: The roller shade is provided which contains a transparent first fabric piece, a transparent second fabric piece, and a third fabric piece composed of a number of transparent lateral sections and opaque lateral sections alternately pieced together. The third fabric piece is sandwiched between the first and second fabric pieces.... Agent: Leong C Lei

20100212845 - Systems and methods for deployment of curtains: A curtain system is described which includes a curtain having a plurality of rod engaging members attached thereto, a plurality of rods each having a first end, and a curtain release mechanism attached to each rod at the first end thereof. The rod engaging members each include a stem having... Agent: Patent Docket Department Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100212846 - Blind assembly having a slide member: A blind assembly includes a guide rail having spaced-apart first and second walls, an end wall interconnecting outer ends of the first and second walls, a first rib projecting transversely from an inner end of the second wall, and a second rib projecting transversely from the second wall between the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20100206491 - Venetian blind with a thin profile latticed strip: The present invention provides a venetian blind with a thin profile latticed strip. The blind includes a bracket, several thin blades arranged under the bracket with threading holes, a blade regulator, and at least two narrow shaped and thin profile latticed strips extending from the bottom of the bracket. The... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20100206492 - Window covering featuring automatic cord collection: A lifting mechanism is provided for a window covering which allows a bottom rail of the window covering to maintain a static position unless raised or lowered by a user. The lifting mechanism is included within either a top or bottom rail of the window covering. The lifting mechanism includes... Agent: Bradley P. Heisler Heisler & Associates

20100206493 - Slat for venetian blind: A slat for Venetian blind with a stiffer support includes at least a pliable blade and two bracing bars. The pliable blade has two sides formed respectively a first threading zone and a second threading zone that are parallel with each other. On each of the threading zones there are... Agent: Guice Patents PLLC

20100206494 - Portable curtain retraction device and system: A portable barrier retraction device and system for retracting and deploying barriers, such as theatrical curtains. The device includes a first drum, a rotatable shaft in selective rotational communication with the first drum, and a clutch configured to disengage the first drum from the rotatable shaft. The device further includes... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20100206495 - Roman curtain device: A Roman curtain device has an inner layer, an outer layer and multiple bridging pieces attached between the inner layer and the outer layer. Each of the multiple bridging pieces has multiple through holes to allow two drawing strings from a clutching device on an upper rail penetrating the aligning... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20100206496 - Stretcher to be used, in particular, for canvas: A stretcher comprises frame sections. The frame sections comprise two extruded profiles (B, D) whereby the outer profile is made of a softer material than the inner profile. The inner, hard profile (D) gives firmness to the stretcher, while the softer profile (B) provides flexibility. The softer profile is fitted... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20100206497 - Sheet material tensioning apparatus: A sheet material tensioning apparatus includes frame members interconnected one with another to define a closed contour. The apparatus applies tension to sheet material by imposing a separation between frame members to expand the closed contour. Beneficially, the sheet material tensioning apparatus includes an edge-bridging mechanism, such as a spline,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100200175 - Window blind assembly: A window blind assembly includes a top rail, a drawable primary curtain unit hung from the top rail, and a drawable auxiliary curtain unit hung from the top rail and disposed at one side of the primary curtain unit. The primary curtain unit includes an upper curtain section and a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20100200176 - Actionneur tubulaire pour l'entrainement d'un ecran domotique: The invention relates to a tubular actuator (1) for a home automation screen, that comprises: a stationary point (20: 220: 420) at least partially imbedded in the tube through one end thereof; and stop means (21, 11; 221, 211; 321; 421, 411) of the stationary point at least in translation... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20100200178 - Device for automatically moving a curtain along a curtain rail: A device for automatically moving a curtain along a curtain rail, which device comprises driving means movable along the curtain rail, the curtain being adapted to be coupled to the driving means by way of coupling means, wherein the driving means comprise a toothed belt (2). Preferably, the rail (1)... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100200177 - Model curtain driving apparatus: Provided is a contour curtain driving apparatus which independently ascends and descends a contour curtain which is divided into a number of sub-curtains using a motor, respectively. The contour curtain driving apparatus includes a selector having a selection switch for selecting a driving mode of the contour curtain, an automatic... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Park & AssociatesIPLaw LLC

20100200179 - Idler: A length adjustable fitting for blind systems, including a housing and a drive member fitted to said housing; a core component including a core member shaped for engaging a drive portion of said drive member, the core component including a support portion shaped for engaging a support member for supporting... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20100200180 - Fast installable and detachable automobile snow cover having two pendent self-stretched flaps: The snow cover of the invention has a main shade with fastening elements located at the upper end to be anchored on the car roof and other fastening elements on a lower end to be anchored on the car hood. The snow cover includes two triangular pendent self-stretched flaps each... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100193141 - Safety device for quickly releasing control ropes of roman shades: A safety device for Roman shades includes multiple loop members connected to each of the folding lines on the shade and multiple restriction members are connected to multiple loop members. Each restriction member includes multiple extensions which spirally wrap to each other so as to define an opening therebetween. Multiple... Agent: Phillip Liu

20100193142 - Retractable arched window covering: A shade for an arched window including an arched track with a movable slide base and a pleated blind attached to the slide base. A cord actuates the slide base to move along the track and pull the blind between retracted and extended positions. A top rail of the blind... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.