Track guided

Electrically operated lock for a closure, such as a truck door, characterized by a bolt movable between locked and unlocked positions and latched against movement in both positions, the bolt movement being under control of a two position switch and other switches which disconnect electrical energization...     

An upwardly-acting sectional door composed of a plurality of sections for sliding from a vertical track which aligns the sections in a vertical plane around a curved track to a horizontal track which aligns the sections in a horizontal plane. The sections are hinged together and each section is substantially...     

An articulated overhead door constructed of blow-molded material sections for use on building structures such as industrial, commercial, and residential garages.

A sectional door having a plurality of horizontally elongated and substantially rectangular panels having their adjacent horizontally extending edges hingedly connected to permit movement of the door between a closed substantially vertical position and an open substantially horizontal position. Each...     

An attachment for use with an overhead door having limited head room. The door is made of hingedly connected sections and movable between a closed and an open position on a track. The attachment comprises a first member adapted to be attached to the top section of the door. A second member is pivotally...     

An insulated sectional overhead garage door comprising a plurality of pivotally connected door panels, each having an interior cavity filled with insulating material. Weather stripping is provided between adjacent door panels to prevent heat loss. One feature of the invention pertains to the quick mounting...     

An overhead garage door comprised of a plurality of hinged sections at least one of which is provided with a series of window openings. Each window opening has an openable window sash and window screen therein whereby the garage can be well vented without admitting insects or unwanted animals. Means...     

A jalousie door as described, having sections turnable about horizontal axes, the door being formed by a plurality of upper and lower juxtapositioned sections, each provided with an upper edge portion of a stepwise increasing height extending from the outside to the inside of the door, the side of the...     

A roller-hinge unit for a sectional door supported on a pair of tracks, wherein opposed hinge halves on adjacent door panels are joined together by a hinge tube which is constructed of a plastic material and is snapped into position to thereby hingedly connect the two hinge halves together. The hinge...     

An anti-rattle element for a curtain of a closure, the curtain having a corrugated surface and, adjacent to its edges, either a strap riveted to crests of each corrugation or bridges extending across the troughs of the corrugations. The strap or bridges form detent surfaces engageable by a resilient...     

A vertical side weatherstrip for door comprising a jamb mountable shell with moveable sealing strip and strip support rail, an internal means of mechanically holding the sealing strip and support rail recessed into the shell during the operation of the door, and a mechanical means by which the sealing...     

A quick closing gate, formed of uniformly spaced horizontal bars slidably engaged within a gate track of two sections joined at an acute angle close to ninety degrees, said gate track being rotatable so as to be easily rotated from a position in which gravity maintains the gate in a stable open position,...     

An improved roller assembly is provided for guiding movement of a beverage truck overhead door, and for preventing lateral misalignment of lettering or decals on the outside of such door. The improved roller assembly includes a roller, a dished washer, and a shaft. The shaft has self-tapping exteriorly-threaded...     

A key assembly for receiving devices employed in communication engineering, particularly for broadcasting and television receivers, comprises a casing provided with mutually releasable keys in the form of press buttons adapted to switch on storable, selectively adjustable electrical values supplied by...     

There is disclosed herein an upwardly acting overhead door which is adapted to be rolled along an L-shaped track between a substantially vertical closed position and a substantially horizontal storage position. The door includes a plurality of adjacent laterally-extending door panel sections in edge-to-edge...     

Our sectional overhead door is allowed to louver through machine mechanisms we have designed. The door louvers allowing ventilation, natural lighting, privacy, and security. These features can be utilized while the door is in the closed position, still allowing for the door to be raised in its normal...     

There is disclosed and overhead sectional door in which the framing sections are composed of tubular extrusions constructed to provide for a sealing bead about the periphery of the door which abuts the door frame and seals it against entry of dust and water. The door sections are hinged together by integral...     

This invention pertains to an extensible line brattice which comprises a track system and an extensible brattice frame with an attached brattice cloth cover mounted on said track system for extension into an unprotected portion of a mine passageway.

A self-storing panel mechanism for a vehicle engine compartment which has a lower side frame member extending longitudinally of the vehicle adjacent one side of the compartment, and an upper structural portion extending longitudinally above the lower side frame member and forming with the lower side...     

There is disclosed an overhead sectional door suitable for use with capped pickup trucks in which a multiplicity of sealing means are provided. Thus, there is provided compressible sealing means adapted to be compressed against the outer and inner faces of the door and auxiliary flexible sealing member...     

A garage door screen system is provided for a sectional garage door of the type which opens to an overhead position while supported by rollers contained in channels. The screen system is for a partially opened garage door and, in the preferred embodiment, provides separate screens for the bottom opening...     

A cabinet comprising an enclosure with a front surface in which there is an opening. A tambour door is slidably attached to the enclosure. The tambour door is movable between an open position, in which the opening provides direct access to the enclosure interior, and a closed position in which the opening...     

A multi-section overhead door having an impact-proof bottom panel for improved safety and durability is disclosed. The door is displaced vertically along parallel tracks to which it is coupled by means of rollers. Impact with the bottom panel of the door when in a raised position results in the disengagement...     

A cover system for a pick-up truck having an open top defined by vertical spaced apart side walls, and a front wall is disclosed. The cover system includes a rollable cover portion which has the capability of being either completely or partially extended or retracted to close or expose the truck bed....     

The doors of a type including closure elements are guided at the side and which are provided with a drive mechanism. To simplify the drive mechanism, and to increase the operational reliability, there are inventively provided one or more motors that are secured to the closure elements and that have a...     

A safety braking device for a roll up or sliding door having a door curtain guided for movement by guide channels engaging its edges, the safety braking device comprising a tilt bar hingedly attached to the leading edge of the door curtain, and brake means carried on the tilt bar and arranged, upon appreciable...     

A cover system for a pickup truck bed having an open top defined by vertical spaced apart side walls, and a front wall is disclosed. The cover system includes a rollable cover unit which has the capability of being either completely or partially extended or retracted to close or expose the truck bed....     

A sliding or swinging wardrobe door is sturdy and attractive and is quickly and easily assembled from a minimal number of inexpensive, lightweight and standardized components. The stiles and rails of the door frame have identical profiles and are cut as needed from a continuous length of inexpensive...     

Door structure particularly suited for closing garage doorways and a method of making same include top and bottom preformed, weather-resistant metal rails (16, 17) on a single-piece, preformed, weather-resistant panel (11), together with stiles (19) along the back of the panel fastened at the ends to...     

A shutter for application over a window comprises a plurality of horizontal slats mounted in vertically-spaced relation, a tilting device for simultaneously tilting all the slats about their horizontal axes from horizontal positions to vertical positions, and a raising device for raising the slats from...     

Folding door apparatus includes panels which are hinged to rotate into a stacked position over head as a winding drum draws a cable attached to the lowermost panel. Alternate panels have first roller brackets carrying respective first rollers which ride in a vertical first trackway, and second brackets...     

A storage compartment for recessed mounting into the top of the instrument panel of a vehicle includes a flexible cover for movement between a position closing a storage container and an open position in which the cover extends around the storage container. The flexible cover is a tambour-type cover...     

A roll-up door for a container body of a van or the like is provided with a winch which is located in a compartment formed in the header of the door. The winch is connected by flexible winding straps to the upper door panel and the lower door panel so that it is operable to drive the door between the...     

The present invention sets forth a garage door sealing apparatus wherein a plurality of electric motors are integrally secured to each door track of a typical garage reciprocating door. Upon closing of the door, the plurality of electric motors each pull the associated track into engagement with the...     

A crib structure for a child includes a support surface for the child. A plurality of side walls are operatively connected to the support surface. At least one of the side walls includes a door opening and at least one door. The door is laterally slidable substantially in the direction to and from an...     

Articulated overhead gate consisting of a series of adjacent and interarticulated panels with their sides facing one another, characterized in that the side of each panel that is uppermost in gate-closed state and faces a preceding panel has a curved surface that is convex in vertical section and the...     

A sealing device for sealing a side of a slideable door. The sealing device includes a seal member, a striker plate attached to the sealing member, an outer wall, and a plurality of links in the form of resilient ribs positioned between the seal member and the outer wall. The resilient ribs force the...     

A movable shutter to be placed over an opening is made up essentially of horizontal sections, each of which sections comprise an intermediate section or filler of polycarbonate. A male extrusion is fixed to the filler at the top and a female extrusion at the bottom. This makes it possible to assemble...     

An improved joint construction (10) for a roll-up door includes specially-configured upper and lower panel sections (12, 11), a specially-configured hinge member (13) adapted to be longitudinally inserted into operative engagement wiht lower panel section, and a seal member (14) protectively concealed...     

A vertically foldable door or barrier structure including a door leaf which is divided into a multiple of horizontal, mutually foldable panels or sections and which is guided in side guides arranged on the sides of the door opening. For the purpose of obtaining positive folding of the door leaf when...     

A roll-up door for a contained body of a van or the like is provided with a winch which is located in a compartment formed in the header of the door. The winch is connected by flexible winding straps to the upper door panel and the lower door panel so that it is operable to drive the door between the...     

Disclosed is a base bracket able to hold multiple curtain rods or the like which generally requires only two screws to securely mount it to a wall or a solid support. The position of the base bracket is designed to be adjustable over a limited distance after mounting. The preferred base bracket includes...     

A portable, strong, lightweight, low-height automobile housing or garage encloses an automobile on five sides. A roll up rear door provides for entry of an automobile. The driver side wall and roof include have a side access opening extending through them such that a driver taller than the roof of the...     

Multi-sectional garage doors tend to bow downwardly in the middle because of the weight of the door. A simple solution to this problem is to provide a reinforcing device on the lowermost horizontal panel, the device including a pair of elongated bars for extending between the bottom center of the panel...     

An overhead door having a number of panels secured together by hinges, in which the insertion of a finger into a gap between the consecutive panels is prevented. Facing edges of ajdacent panels have areas that curve around an axis of the hinges to eliminate the occurrence of a gap as wide as a finger...     

A garage door has a multiplicity of transversely extending panels with a preformed core of synthetic resin and integrally formed metallic front and rear skins of the same configuration but reversed. The front skin has its top edge portion configured with an inwardly and then upwardly extending wall portion...     

A divided flexible covering (1,2)serves to expose any desired region of a surface or opening while masking the other regions. Two gripping slats (3,10) are located respectively at the beginning of a length of fabric (1 or 2) or at the beginning and end of at least one or two strips (4 or 8), each of...     

A support mechanism for room dividers is constructed to support room divider curtain rods, for example, to divide an aircraft cabin into several cabin sections. For this purpose a carrier crossbeam is formed of two beam elements hinged to each other in scissors fashion so that the beam elements can buckle...     

The present invention provides a retractable tail gate assembly for a pick-up truck vehicle. The tail gate comprises a plurality of panel sections that are hinged together to make up a flexible tail gate panel. Each panel section carries two or more guides, at least one at each end thereof, which track...     

A sectional door installation comprises a series of horizontal door panels mounted on opposite ends on scissors linkages to move between a deployed generally vertical position closing the doorway to a withdrawn position wherein the panels are arranged generally horizontally at the upper end of the doorway....     

An articulated door and door guiding track covers storage bays of a beverage body. An articulated door is formed by engaging a plurality of polymeric panel sections into a sequence such that each panel section can be positioned at varying angles with respect to an adjacent engaged panel section. The...     

Each panel of a garage door of the articulated type comprises a rigid metallic, rectangular frame including a pair of horizontal longer members and a pair of vertical shorter members rigidly interconnected. A casing surrounds the longer members and is made of two extruded sections, of synthetic material,...     

A roll-up or curtain type door is disclosed which is for use in large doorways, the door having an improved support apparatus, an improved spring mounting mechanism, and a unique bearing block which also functions to support the door as it is rolled up. The roll-up door has a substantially stronger hollow...     

A decorative venetian blind window security system that can be readily removed for emergency exit is disclosed. The security system includes a plurality of blind slats disposed within a frame assembly that receive locking rods through elongated openings formed in the blind slats. The locking rods can...     

A drive arrangement for maneuvering a generally vertically moveable door, the arrangement comprising at least one bendable door lifting element which is connected to at least one of the two longitudinal side edges of the door. In order to enable the force required to maneuver the door to be held substantially...     

The invention provides a roll-up door for operation with a pre-tensioned balancer and having fastening apparatus comprising a cable with fasteners, one on each end, and which is coupled to the door at first and second positions spaced substantially equally from respective sides of the door. The balancer...     

An articulated door and door guiding track covers storage bays of a beverage body. An articulated door is formed by engaging a plurality of polymeric panel sections into a sequence such that each panel section can be positioned at varying angles with respect to an adjacent engaged panel section. The...     

An improvement in rolling shutters that includes a slat end retainer attached to the ends of individual shutter slats contoured and configured for securing a slat end to the side track which allows the shutters to endure high velocity winds, substantial impact, or attempted forced entry without conventional...     

An apparatus is arranged to include a first and second door section, each slidably mounted relative to an upper and lower guide track and channel, wherein the door sections each include door panels that are formed with an upper roller received within the upper guide track and a lower roller received...     

A shutter for large pressure vessels comprises a lid assembly (Y) constituted of a seal plate (1) formed of a flexible material of a size fit for the opening of a pressure vessel and a multitude of beam members (2) attached to the outer surface of the plate (1) and extending widthwise. The beam members...     

A flexible, retractable assembly for use as a door, space divider, covering or the like which comprises a sheet such as Mylar polyester film having a permanent memory set to roll up on itself or otherwise retract automatically into a coil, accordion, or other compact configuration. The assembly is adapted...     

A flexible fabric machinery guard is characterized by one or more lightweight panels of porous, plastic-coated, woven glass fibers which are reinforced by non-porous fabric borders. The panels each include elongated, tension-bearing cables extending through sleeves formed in the panel fabric. Opposed...     

A base member and a fascia are assembled to form a hollow door section which is filled with insulative material. Adjacent sections are coupled along respective longitudinal edges for angular and spatial displacement. The base member is extended from a selected plastic with male and female coupling components...     

A new and improved oven door apparatus includes a pair of guide channel assemblies connected to a pair of sidewalls of the oven. Each of the guide channel assemblies includes a straight vertical guide channel portion, a curved, right angled guide channel portion, and a straight horizontal guide channel...     

A barrier gate for preventing access to a restricted area which is designed to be lightweight and yet sufficiently resilient to return to its original shape after being impacted by heavy equipment. The barrier gate outer frame includes a plurality of flexible plastic tubular frame members which are joined...     

The closure of the invention for an aperture has strips interlinked articulatedly via hinges in such a way that the distance between adjacent strips defines a space in which the hinge pins engage. Rubber sealing strips are fitted to interconnect adjacent strips; they are arranged coaxially with the hinge...     

A bottom bracket for an overhead garage door having a spring tension assisted lift system. The bottom bracket has protrusions that interlock with mating slots in the stile of the garage door bottom panel thus preventing the bracket from detaching from the garage door when the bracket is attached to the...     

A track system (110) for a door (120) having a plurality of panels including a top panel (121) and a hinge connected adjacent panel (122), having an inner side for attaching mounting hardware and being movable between a closed vertical position proximate a door frame and an open horizontal position including,...     

An improved door mounting system which uses a pair of channel members directly coupled to a guide member to allow an access door to move from a position closing an access opening to a position clearing the access opening. The door can be a single panel or a number of hingedly interconnected panels. The...     

A sliding element system has a rectangular sliding element (1) with a first side (2) and a second side (3), these sides being substantially parallel to each other; guide wheel sets (4, 5) which are attached on the first side (2) and the second side (3) of the sliding element, each such guide wheel set...     

An improved steel rolling door is equipped with a a number of pivot plates which are engaged with each other side by side and pivotally associated with one side of the topmost collapsible door plate, and a plurality of pulling wires which are engaged with the opposite side thereof so as to permit the...     

A sectional door (20) having a plurality of panels (21, 22, 23, 24) including, a body portion (25) of the panels spacing and joining longitudinal edges (40, 50), one of the edges (40) between adjacent panels on a first panel having a substantially concave curvilinear surface (45) in vertical cross-section,...     

An exterior roll door for providing access to the interior of a trailer mounted on the outside, with door tracks on the outside in channels in the sides of a header, forming top rails, the door tracks having open sides facing outwardly and mounted inwardly from the rear edge of the trailer along the...     

A sectional door panel for use in an overhead door assembly is provided. The sectional door panel includes a front panel, a rear panel, an insulating material between the front and rear panels, an upper edge integral to the front panel, a raised tongue formed in the upper edge, an upper rail integral...     

A sectional door (20) having a plurality of panels (21, 22, 23, 24) including, a body portion (25) of the panels spacing and joining longitudinal edges (40, 50), one of the edges (40) between adjacent panels on a first panel having a substantially concave curvilinear surface (45) in vertical cross-section,...     

A garage door-opener security system which automatically positively blocks any unauthorized opening of a sectional garage door that travels, guided by rollers, in a pair of flanking metal guide tracks. The security system is interconnected with a standard, automatic, garage door-opening mechanism that...     

An overhead door for a structure which includes a pair of tracks having inwardly facing surfaces which define a channel, and wherein the channels are mounted in predetermined substantially parallel spaced relation one to the other, a door panel located intermediate the pair of tracks and moveable along...     

An articulated door and door guiding track covers storage bays of a beverage body. The articulated door is formed by engaging a plurality of polymeric panel sections into a sequence such that each panel section can be positioned at varying angles with respect to an adjacent engaged panel section. Elastic...     

A porch enclosure system for enclosing a porch having a framework including a pair of side members with vertical parallel slots, a top member for housing a motor mechanism and storing a plurality of glass panels and a bottom member for receiving a reciprocating shuttle. The plurality of glass panels...     

A sectional door (20) having a plurality of panels (21, 22, 23, 24) including, a body portion (25) of the panels spacing and joining longitudinal edges (40, 50), one of the edges (40) between adjacent panels on a first panel having a substantially concave curvilinear surface (45) in vertical cross-section,...     

A base member and a fascia are assembled to form a hollow door section which is filled with insulative material. Adjacent sections are coupled along respective longitudinal edges for angular and spatial displacement. The base member is extended from a selected plastic with male and female coupling components...     

A louverable roller blind has lamellar blind slats (14), similar to Venetian blind slats, hingedly linked at their upper areas to pull chain elements (21, 40) and at their lower areas to adjusting chain elements (23, 41). The blind slats (14) are further laterally guided in stationary guide profiles...     

A roller shutter includes a plurality of horizontal slats (I) each provided with a flat lug (22) projecting from each end and mounting inside guide rails (V) on both sides of the window or door. Each slat has its upper edge (3) bent in a hook-profile in one direction and its lower edge (4) bent in a...     

A power operated garage door of the type having a single section movable from a vertical closed position to a horizontal open position at the ceiling of the garage by cables which pull the door open and closed and are secured to the door by extensions of the journal bearings for pivotally supporting...     

A shutter including a casing, two chain transmission mechanisms bilaterally and vertically mounted inside said casing, two linkages suspended from the top rail of the casing on the inside, a set of louvers pivotably connected between the linkages, a power drive controlled to turn the chain transmission...     

A door assembly includes an articulated door with rollers mounted along its edge portions and guide and support tracks for securing the door to a wall with an opening that the door closes. The assembly also includes bracket members for supporting the door when a load displaces the door a predetermined...     

A panel member for use in an overhead door assembly has an outer frame defining a panel slot, with a swingable panel seated in the slot; the swingable panel is hingedly mounted to the outer frame by a hinge, retainers on the outer frame hold the swingable panel in the panel slot, however, under impact...     

A reinforcing arrangement or device which substantially prevents sagging of the lower section of a multi-sectional Up and over type door. The natural load on the lower center of the bottom panel of the door being upwardly and vertically controlled and translated laterally and downwardly to the bottom...     

A retractable screen assembly is disclosed for a standard garage door of the type that is selectively raised and lowered to open and close the garage. The assembly includes one or more screen panels stacked against and extending across an inside surface of the garage door. The panels are telescopically...     

A shutter device is provided for installation onto an exterior wall of a building over a window comprising a top bracket having a top longitudinal track therealong. A component is for mounting the top bracket horizontally above the window onto the exterior wall of the building, with the top longitudinal...     

A decorative cover for a movable garage door and method of attachment thereof are provided that allow festive ornamentation of ordinary garage doors while maintaining full use of such garage doors. The decorative cover can be made of weather resistant material and printed with various festive designs...     

A system for reinserting a dislodged roller of a movable overhead door and a bracket for accomplishing this result. A reinsertion bracket is positioned along both the vertical and horizontal portion of each side of a door track. The reinsertion bracket consists of a base plate and a pair of guide plates...     

A closure system includes a plurality of closure panels adapted to be moved between deployed and stowed positions. All on a pair of carrier tracks on opposite side of a building opening. The actuator in the deployed position have abutting top and bottom edges and parallel side surface that span across...     

A hinged panel door comprises a plurality of thermoplastic panels each having a main body with an outside wall, an inside wall, an open ended female receptacle formed centrally in one end and a male receptacle protruding centrally from the other end of the main body. The male connector has a rounded...     

A support assembly for doors, garage doors, or window shutters that cover building apertures. A support bar is mounted on a pivoting mount. Spring loaded locking assemblies are actuated by a lever assembly. With the locking assemblies retracted, the support can be pivoted from a horizontal passive position...     

A base member and a fascia are assembled to form a hollow door section which is filled with insulative material. Adjacent sections are coupled along respective longitudinal edges for angular and spatial displacement. The base member is extended from a selected plastic with male and female coupling components...     

A roll up door which may be used in the back of a van body has a plurality of panels arranged edge-to-edge with a thin flexible sheet glued to the outside face of the panels and a flexible belt attached to each pair of adjacent panels at the rear face of these panels. A roller extends from each end of...     

A pinch-proof garage door for protecting human fingers from being pinched is disclosed. The garage door includes a plurality of horizontally-aligned garage door panels. Each garage door panel has a top male portion and a bottom female portion. Top male and bottom female portions of adjacent garage door...     

A jack shaft garage door operator is used for positively opening and closing a garage door and includes a jack shaft garage door operator drive having an electric motor. The electric motor is connected to a jack shaft garage door operator transmission. The transmission includes an opening flexible link...     

A cover system for the truck box of a pickup truck includes upstanding sides and front portion which define inwardly thereof an open area to be covered by a series of parallel edge to edge cover panels. The cover panels slide forwardly and rearwardly on a guide track and the guide track is divided at...