Abstract: This document provides an apparatus including an awning fastener configured for attaching to an awning. The apparatus can further include a first airfoil connected to the awning fastener. The apparatus can further include a second airfoil connected to the awning fastener and positioned opposite of the first airfoil such that the first and second airfoils are positionable on opposite sides of the awning when the awning fastener is connected to the awning.

Abstract: A blind system, including a screen with one end secured to a bar; and a guide track on opposite edges of said screen, each said guide track having a single rigid longitudinal body defining a guide channel with discrete parallel first and second channel portions; wherein, said screen has a edge portion extending through the second channel portion, a slit formed along said body, and into said first channel portion, for guiding the movement of said screen along said slit and for resisting separation of said edge portion from said first channel portion, and wherein said bar has an end portion adapted for movement only within said second channel portion for guiding said bar to move along said body.

Abstract: A door assembly for covering an opening includes a curtain supported at a first end of the opening. The curtain includes a first lateral edge supporting at least one first curtain magnetic device. The door assembly includes a first track portion extending along a first opening side of the opening between the first end and an opposing second end. The first track portion includes at least one first magnetic assembly. The first curtain magnetic device magnetically couples with the first magnetic assembly of the first track portion such that the curtain is magnetically supported at the first lateral edge of the curtain.

Abstract: A sunshade assembly includes two rail seats, a shade member and a guide unit. The shade member has a main portion and two foldable portions connected respectively to left and right sides of the main portion. The guide unit includes two guide members mounted respectively to the rail seats. Each guide member has a guide groove for receiving a portion of a respective one of the foldable portions of the shade member, and a guide surface formed in the guide groove. When the shade member is unwound, the foldable portions pass through the guide grooves and are urged to be folded through guidance of the guide surfaces before entering and being confined in the rail seats.

Abstract: An overhead roll-up door assembly for a vertically moving door to permit and prohibit access to an opening, the door assembly having a pair of spaced apart, parallel side columns for vertically guiding a door panel, the door panel having at least one wind lock attached proximate each marginal edge of the door panel, each of the wind locks having an angled portion facing the interior of the opening having a first durometer and a substantially rectangular portion having a second durometer different from the first durometer, the wind locks engaging the side column to prevent disengagement of the door panel from the side columns when a wind load is applied to the door panel.

Abstract: 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 series of projections on at least one drive strip so that the gear can push the door between its open and closed positions. To protect the door from being damaged by collisions, the track can include a breakaway feature that allows at least a portion of the panel with its drive strip to separate from the track without permanent distortion. The drive strip and panel remain together as they break away from the track. The threshold of the breakaway force can be changed by selecting a retention strip from a plurality of interchangeable strips having different degrees of flexibility.

Abstract: 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 series of projections on at least one drive strip so that the gear can push the door between its open and closed positions. To protect the door from being damaged by collisions, the track can include a breakaway feature that allows at least a portion of the panel with its drive strip to separate from the track without permanent distortion. The drive strip and panel remain together as they break away from the track. The threshold of the breakaway force can be changed by selecting a retention strip from a plurality of interchangeable strips having different degrees of flexibility.

Abstract: An overhead roll-up door assembly for a vertically moving door to permit and prohibit access to an opening, the door assembly having a door panel with two faces and opposing marginal and lateral edges, and at least two wind locks attached proximate each marginal edge. The at least two wind locks extend away from one face of the door panel in a direction substantially perpendicular thereto, and are spaced apart vertically along each respective side edge of the door panel. The assembly further includes a drum for winding and unwinding the door panel to permit and prohibit access to the opening, and, a pair of opposing parallel side columns aligned and spaced apart such that each of the opposing side edges engage one of the side columns in a manner in which at least a portion of the side columns guide vertical movement of the door panel.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device with a curtain which can be rolled up and unrolled between a shut position and an open position, whereby this curtain (1) comprises a belt (2,3) on each of its faces, whereby each belt (2,3) has successive teeth (5,6) in the longitudinal direction, whereby these belts (2,3) are situated opposite one another in such a way that they can mesh when the curtain (1) is being rolled up. At least one of these belts (2,3) comprises teeth (5,6) having at least one recess (8,9) in which at least one protruding part (10,11) of the teeth (5,6) of the other belt (2,3) can engage in such a way that the two belts (2,3) can mesh and such that one of these belts (2,3) can push the other belt (2,3) in their longitudinal directions.

Abstract: A roller blind device for a motor vehicle having a flexible roller blind sheet held windably and unwindably on a roller blind shaft, a dimensionally stable pulling-out section assigned to the roller blind sheet at an end area which is at the front in the pulling-out direction, at least one pulling/pushing apparatus continuously rotating and in operative connection with the roller blind shaft and to which the pulling-out section is fastened, and having lateral guide section arrays in which lateral edges of the roller blind sheet are guided. The pulling/pushing apparatus is guided in a guide track integrated in the guide section array and transversely movable together with the guide section array for setting of the function position, in particular before initial operation.

Abstract: The roof reflector provides selectively deployable and retractable devices for installation over the roof of a building structure to reduce the amount of solar energy transmitted to the roof proper. The roof reflector may include a thick roll of insulating material that may be unrolled to cover the roof or rolled up for storage. Alternatively, the roof reflector may have a plurality of rigid panels hinged together to extend over the roof or to fold over one another for storage. Yet another alternative is a plurality of rigid panels that telescope into one another for storage. Still another alternative includes a plurality of laterally disposed slats that may be opened and closed in the manner of Venetian blinds. The roof reflector is remotely operated, either mechanically by a hand crank and cable mechanism, or electronically by a remote signal operating an electric motor.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for producing a shutter (2) designed to be rolled up and unrolled, characterized in that on each face, opposite one another, is provided a serrated belt (3,4) comprising a succession of teeth, and in that, in order to make it possible for both belts (3,4) to mesh, the position of the teeth of at least one of the belts (3,4) is adjusted by deforming said belt (3,4) in such a way that both belts (3,4) can mesh, and that this mutual position of the belts (3,4) can subsequently be stabilized.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device with a curtain (2) that can be rolled up and unrolled between a shut position and an open position comprising, near the lateral edges (3) on each face, a serrated belt (1,6) extending parallel to said lateral edges (3), whereby each of the belts (1,6) has successive teeth (5,8). The lateral face of the teeth, extending in the longitudinal direction of the corresponding lateral edge (3) of at least one of the belts (1,6) provided on a face of the curtain (2) rests on a supporting element when the curtain (2) is rolled up. This supporting element is provided on the other face of the curtain (2).

Abstract: A door assembly having a flexible door panel wound and unwound on a drum or the like to selectively block or permit access through an opening, the flexible door panel having a stiffness, a width, and a length. The door assembly further includes vertically extending side columns disposed on opposite sides of the opening, the side columns being configured to engage a marginal edge of the flexible panel to vertically guide the panel while opening or closing. Attached to a leading edge of the door panel is a bottom bar having a greater stiffness than the door panel and a narrower width than a distance between the vertical panel guide assemblies. Bottom bar guides are disposed proximate a lower portion of the opening and are configured to engage a portion of the bottom bar only when the bottom bar is located in at least a partially closed position.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a fire and smoke protection system for limiting the spread of fire and smoke through an opening, including those in building structures. The system includes a flexible protection member configurable in a storage configuration for subsequent deployment into a protection configuration when fire occurs. The flexible protection member is configurable in single and/or multi-layer arrangements with one or more materials, alone or in combination, and using a variety of construction methods. Generally, the flexible protection member is manufacturable using fire resistant woven and knitted fabric elements, metal foil elements, intumescent elements, and/or wire mesh elements arranged to increase the resistance to forces encountered during a fire. The various elements may be seamed using different stitching patterns and gathered using non-fire resistant thread in order to increase flexibility and resistance to forces.

Abstract: According to some embodiments curtain assemblies are provided having fabric curtains with brush edges that are mated to the fabric curtain. The brush edges are configured to extend laterally from the curtain to contact, for example, the side edges of the opening in which the curtain assembly is installed and remain in contact with the side edges during movement of the curtain. The brush edges can be configured to deflect along the plane of the motion of the curtain to maintain the contact between the curtain and the side edges. In some embodiments, the curtain assemblies can include optional side tracks configured to receive the brush edges, for example, to improve the connection between the brush edges and the side edges.

Abstract: A flexible screen material can be cut out of square, or part of the screen frame can be formed out of square such that when the screen is fitted to the screen frame, there is less sagging.

Abstract: A vertical modular mount for a handling door (1) includes an upper plate (18) connected to a horizontal frame (4) and more particularly to a side flange (19), a lower plate (20) connected to the ground, a central web (21) connecting the upper (18) and lower (20) plates together, a cloth (23) arranged around the upper (18) and lower (20) plates in order to define an envelope (24) on the entire height of the mount (2, 3), and a guiding device (15) defining a slide for the movement of the flexible screen (6), characterized in that each of the members (21, 23, 15) forming the mounts (2, 3) of the handling door (1) are arranged so as to impart a high resilience to the latter, i.e. a high resistance to shocks due to the elastic deformation of each of the members.

Abstract: A draft arrester for an overhead door. An exemplary embodiment may include a flexible draft curtain extending between a ceiling structure and a wound-up portion of the overhead door. The draft arrester may include a follower assembly, which may include one or more rollers arranged to roll against the overhead door. An exemplary embodiment may include a repositionable arm arranged to press the rollers against the wound-up portion of the door.

Abstract: A sunshade device includes a pair of shade guide rails across an indoor opening; a shade of which opposite side edges are guided by the shade guide rails; and a winding shaft rolling up the shade, wherein the opposite side edges of the shade are guided by the shade guide rails with the side edges being folded after a folding stroke whose folded width is gradually increased toward a front end of the shade when the shade is drawn out from the winding shaft, each of the opposite side edges of the shade is provided with a folded introduction part formed by folding a side edge portion of the shade and connecting the folded side edge portion to a main body portion of the shade, and the folded introduction part is formed in a predetermined length from the front end of the shade in an open/close direction of the shade.

Abstract: A display includes a frame, a display panel and a privacy screen device. The frame includes two first sides and two second sides. The privacy screen device includes an engaging portion secured on one second side, a privacy screen unit and a guiding portion secured on the two first sides. The privacy screen unit includes a receiving portion secured on another second side, a privacy screen sheet and an engaging member. The engaging member is attached to the privacy screen sheet. The privacy screen sheet is wrapped around the receiving portion. When the engaging member engages with the engaging portion, the privacy screen sheet is at a deployed position where the privacy screen sheet unrolled and covers the display panel. When the engaging member is released from the engaging portion, the privacy screen sheet moves from the deployed position to a roll-up position where the display panel is entirely exposed.

Abstract: 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 series of projections on at least one drive strip so that the gear can push the door between its open and closed positions. To protect the door from being damaged by collisions, the track can include a breakaway feature that allows at least a portion of the panel with its drive strip to separate from the track without permanent distortion. The drive strip and panel remain together as they break away from the track. The threshold of the breakaway force can be changed by selecting a retention strip from a plurality of interchangeable strips having different degrees of flexibility.

Abstract: A roller shade assembly for a shade made from a relatively heavy and/or stiff material is described. The roller shade assembly includes a cylindrical member that is attached to the shade. A control mechanism rotates the cylindrical member for winding the shade upon the cylindrical member. Thus, winding the cylindrical member in one direction causes the shade to retract, while unwinding the cylindrical member in an opposite direction causes the shade to extend. In order to maintain the shade in alignment as the shade is retracted and extended, the roller shade assembly includes a pair of opposing retaining members that may have a disc-like shape. The retaining members may be positioned adjacent to the vertical edges of the shade and have an effective diameter larger than the diameter of the shade when fully wound and retracted. In one embodiment, the roller shade assembly can further include fixed edge guides for further maintaining the shade in alignment.

Abstract: A roller shade apparatus for a vehicle includes a shade sheet placed selectively in wound-up and extended states, the wound-up state being established to uncover a light transmitting member mounted to the vehicle when the shade sheet is moved in an opening direction, the extended state being established to shield the light transmitting member when the shade sheet is moved in a closing direction, a pair of guide rails extending in the opening and closing directions, and guide belts slidably supported by respective guide portions of the guide rails along the opening and closing directions and connected to respective side end portions of the shade sheet, wherein each guide belt curved in the width direction includes a convex surface, a central portion of the convex surface is connected to each side end portion, and each guide portion includes a pair of lock portions locking side portions of the guide belt.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device comprising a screen (2) presenting flexible side edges (4) having an overthickness (4?), this screen (2) being equipped with one cable or with several juxtaposed cables (21), incompressible in their lengthwise direction, extending parallel to the side edges (4) of the screen so as to enable the application of a thrust force on these side edges (4) in their longitudinal direction to move the screen to its closed position, this cable or cables (21) being located in the neutral surface (24) of said edges (4) formed on bending of the latter and being fixed with respect to the screen (2) in an unremovable way; the overthickness comprises a flexible strip (8) made of an elastic material, wherein the cable or cables (21) are incorporated, as well as two notched belts (9, 10) being located the one with respect to the other on each of both sides of the curtain (2).

Abstract: 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 series of projections on at least one drive strip so that the gear can push the door between its open and closed positions. To protect the door from being damaged by collisions, the track can include a breakaway feature that allows at least a portion of the panel with its drive strip to separate from the track without permanent distortion. The drive strip and panel remain together as they break away from the track. The threshold of the breakaway force can be changed by selecting a retention strip from a plurality of interchangeable strips having different degrees of flexibility.

Abstract: A high-speed door assembly has a shaft or drum having a longitudinal axis which is configured so that the longitudinal axis is parallel with a wall to which the door assembly is mounted. A flexible door panel is attached to the shaft or drum so as to be capable of being wound and unwound about the drum for selectively permitting and prohibiting access through an opening in the wall to which the door assembly is mounted, the door panel being wound on the shaft or drum in an orientation such that the door panel defines at least one vertical plane when unwound from the shaft or drum, the vertical plane being spaced further from the wall to which the door assembly is mounted than the longitudinal axis of the shaft or drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lateral guide for a shading roller blind comprising at least one guide rail (14, 14?) with a first plug-in means and a connection piece (80, 80?) with a second plug-in means (801) which is complementary to the first plug-in means and is couplable thereto, the intercoupled plug-in means (801) being displaceable relative to each other to compensate for tolerance. The invention further relates to a shading roller blind with a pull-out profile, which is guided in a lateral guide.

Abstract: The invention concerns a shade system (10,40,50) for a motor vehicle, said system being adapted to obscure a transparent bodywork element. Said shade system comprises at least one shade guideway (12), a winding shaft and lateral guide elements (18, 20) wherein are guided the lateral edges of the shade guideway (12). The lateral edges of the shade guideway (12) have each a flat and flexible driving band (22A, 22B). In order to ensure that said driving bands (22A, 22b) are wound on the winding shaft (16) and are unwound therefrom in specific manner, a lateral winding guide (28A, 28B;42;52) is arranged at the winding shaft (16) for each driving band (22A, 22B), said winding guides (28A, 28B;42;52) preventing the driving bands (22A, 22B) from being laterally offset at the winding shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shutter device intended to close a bay (6) or other opening, with flexible edges (2, 3) projecting with respect to the plane of the shutter (1) and collaborating with guideways (4, 5), at least one reintroduction element (12) being provided, allowing the said edges (2, 3) to be reintroduced into the guideways (4, 5) when these edges (2, 3) become disengaged from the latter under the action of a force exerted on these edges (2, 3) in a direction transverse to the guideways (4, 5), a contact area (37) being formed during this reintroduction between the reintroduction element (12) and the corresponding edge (2, 3), characterized in that the lateral edges (2, 3) consist at least partially of an elastomeric material so that the said contact area (37) increases as the said force increases, spreading this force over the contact area (37).

Abstract: When a fitting piece slips out of a rail groove of a guide rail in connection with an excessive load on a shutter curtain is restored to the rail groove, the restoration is reliably set and noiselessly carried out. A posture holding bar and fitting pieces, which are spaced from both right and left sides of the posture holding bar at a predetermined interval, are provided at the lower end portion of the shutter curtain. A first guide body guides the posture holding bar to the opposing site to the rail groove in the process of an opening/closing operation of the shutter curtain. A second guide body guides the fitting piece at the lower end portion of the shutter curtain to the opposing side to the rail groove in conformity with a timing at which the posture holding bar is positionally regulated to the opposing side to the rail groove by the first guide body is provided at the upper side of the rail groove constituting the guide rail.

Abstract: A roll up door assembly for covering a door space comprising a rubber sheet having vertical side edge portions with a front lock strip secured to the front surface and a rear lock strip secured to the rear surface of each vertical side edge. The front and rear locking strips are staggered with respect to each other in the transverse direction of these strips. The sheet is coilable on a barrel mounted above the door. The staggered orientation of the lock strips assists in the tracking of the sheet during coiling on the barrel. A pair of vertically extending door guides each define a vertical slot oriented and sized to accept a respective vertical side edge portion for guided vertical movement therein. Each door guide assembly has a windbar attached thereto, positioned to narrow the opening of the slot such the narrowed opening has a smaller width than the total thickness of each side edge portion of the sheet.

Abstract: A decorative covering apparatus and method. A frame with an opening formed into it has a first roller that rotates about an axis. A flexible cover is arranged to loop between a first edge that is fixed relative to the frame and a second edge that is affixed to the first roller. A second roller is disposed at the apex of the loop in the flexible cover, and, a motor is coupled to rotate the first roller in a first direction and in a second direction. This action causes a furling and unfurling the flexible cover to reveal and conceal the opening. It also causes the second roller to traverse the opening in the frame. A decorative frame is attached to the frame. The decorative cover is adapted to conceal and reveal a wall mounted object located behind the opening in the frame, such as a flat panel television set. Control is implemented with a remote control receiver, which receives a control signal that is coupled to control the motor to rotate in an up and down direction.

Abstract: A rollup door comprising a door leaf of increasing width from top to bottom and having a narrower part on the top and a wider part on the bottom, and flexibility in the rolling direction; channels for guiding the door; and two modules for rolling and unrolling the door leaf so that a number of leaf layers do not come in contact. The modules are situated on each side of the door, have the same center axes and are successive radially enlarged so that on opening and closing of the door, the narrower and wider parts of the leaf engage the smaller and larger parts respectively of the modules.

Abstract: A method of assembling a frame assembly for a partition system is disclosed. The frame assembly includes a partition panel, a fabric covering the panel, and a frame component. The frame component automatically and evenly tensions the fabric about the panel. The frame component provided according to this method includes a support element, a lockable element, and an integral hinge defined between the support and lockable elements. The support element defines a cavity for receiving and supporting the panel. The lockable element extends from and is moveable relative to the support element. The panel is inserted into the cavity, and the fabric is mounted to the lockable element. Next, the lockable element is moved about the integral hinge such that the fabric mounted to the lockable element is automatically and evenly tensioned about the panel. A backing strip may be mounted to the frame component to protect the fabric from the integral hinge.

Abstract: A roll-up closure device for typically collapsible vehicle shelters of the type having a structure made of assembled tubular members and cross-members and a complementary covering therefor made of a flexible plastics material and defining at the front end thereof a door opening. The side walls of the shelter are inclined in such a way as to diverge from top to bottom, whereby the door opening has generally a isosceles trapezoidal shape. The device includes a pair of opposed side guide rails mounted at laterally opposite sides of the door opening so as to follow the angled sides thereof, an overhead motor driven roll-up boom extending above the door opening, and a flexible closure shaped like the door opening and having its lateral side edges slidably engaged in the guide rails, whereby the closure device does not substantially reduce the lateral dimensions of the door opening.