Doubly Extensible By Sliding Only Patents (Class 160/221)
  • Publication number: 20110308003
    Abstract: An articulating cover member for covering an opening, such as a spa, includes a plurality of pivotally connected door panels wherein each of the door panels include at least one longitudinally-extending tubular member and at least one longitudinally-extending attachment member associated with a longitudinal edge portion of the at least one tubular member. The at least one longitudinally-extending attachment member is configured for cooperation with an attachment member extending along a longitudinal edge portion of the tubular member of an adjacent door panel for pivotally connecting the door panels. An insulating material may be located within the tubular members and a motor assembly may be provided for automatic actuation of the cover member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Sundance Spas, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian P. A. Scali
  • Patent number: 7105057
    Abstract: An adjustable paint guard for filling the opening of a door frame so that one side of the door frame can be quickly painted without having paint strike the other side of the door frame includes a multi-panel nested arrangement wherein at least one panel serves as the stationary base panel from which the other panels are capable of selective and independent slidable movement along an x-y axis whereupon all the panels can be brought into abutting relationship with the interior vertical and horizontal portions of the door frame that surround the opening thereby completely filling the opening of the door frame and closing off the opening so that paint cannot reach the opposite side of the door frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Inventors: Barry B. Colussi, William M. Kurek
  • Patent number: 7059959
    Abstract: Closure for closing one or more openings (O) of an air-conditioning system, in particular ducts or air-guiding elements that form part of an air-conditioning system. The closure (1) has a plurality of closing elements (3a to 3z) that are arranged (when viewed in a common displacement direction (V)) essentially in one plane (P), so as to be displaceable in parallel with one another, either together in the same direction and/or in opposite directions with respect to one another, in the displacement direction (V).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Björn Lindner
  • Patent number: 6460293
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for moving elements of a multi-leaf sliding wall into a parking magazine whereby a storage rail branches in the region of the parking magazine from a guide rail which carries the elements, and whereby each element has a drive assembly. The invention is directed thereto that the first element next to the parking magazine in the region of the free end of the guide rail is journalled to be swingable about an axis of rotation and is exclusively guided with its associated drive assembly by the storage rail, whereby between the first element and the drive assembly there is disposed a coupling link configured to support a tension to pull and to support a compression to push.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Markus Bischof
  • Patent number: 6378262
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a louvered window insert comprising two louvered frame sections 39, 50 each having one vertical member 44, 60 with an upper and lower horizontal member 40, 42, 56, 58 extending from each end thereof and a plurality of louver blades 46, 52 extending horizontally therebetween. The distal ends of the horizontal members and louver blades of the first section have recesses 48, 54 to receive and slidably secure the horizontal members 56, 58 and louver blades 52 of the second section as they travel therethrough allowing a user to size the insert to a window 12 simply by placing the fully overlapped assembly inside an open window 12 and separating the two frame sections 39, 50 thereby reducing the overlap of the horizontal members and the louvers and effectively elongating the insert until the two vertical members 44, 60 are flush to their respective side jambs and then lowering the window 12 until it sits atop the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Inventor: Robert Mercadante