Patents Assigned to Draper, Inc.
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Patent number: 7559707Abstract: A screen assembly is disclosed including a case, a screen assembly, and a bracket assembly that supports the screen assembly within an interior region of the case.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A Shopp
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Patent number: 7369310Abstract: A projection screen apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a frame and a screen. The frame includes a plurality of frame members and corner members.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth M Risher
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Patent number: 7113332Abstract: A projection screen apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a frame, a screen, and a screen coupler configured to couple the screen to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth M. Risher
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Patent number: 6981350Abstract: A projection screen apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a collapsible frame and a removable display sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2003Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Shanon O. Redmon
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Patent number: 6873461Abstract: A screen system is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector or for partially or fully blocking light from entering a room. The screen system includes a housing and a screen assembly. The housing includes a plurality of extruded housing segment and at least one coupler configured to couple the segments together.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Jerry L. McPherson, Jr.
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Patent number: 6816308Abstract: A screen system is disclosed. The screen system includes a screen housing, a screen positionable in the screen housing, and a screen mount. The screen mount is configured to support the screen in the screen housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A. Shopp
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Patent number: 6785047Abstract: A projection apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a frame, a screen, and a screen coupler configured to couple the screen to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth M. Risher
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Patent number: 6637711Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a projector lift is provided to raise and lower a projector from the ceiling. The projector lift includes a first mount normally coupled to the ceiling, a second mount supporting the projector, a driver configured to raise and lower the second mount and projector, and a stabilizer extending between the first and second mounts.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Steve E. Enochs
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Patent number: 6532109Abstract: A mounting assembly including a housing for a roller operated system, such as a projection screen system, which facilitates installation in a building in stages to reduce the risk of damage to system components. The housing includes longitudinally extending lipped projections along its top wall. Attachment lugs of brackets that support the roller on which a sheet, such as a projection screen, is windable are adapted to engage the lipped projections and enable the brackets to be mounted to the housing at selected longitudinal locations to allow for positioning adjustments of the roller. The vertical side walls of the housing also are each constructed with a projecting lip adapted to engage an upstanding hook of the bottom closure panel to thereby enable the closure panel to be mounted to either of the side walls of the housing. A method of installing a roller operated system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A. Shopp
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Patent number: 6421175Abstract: A projection screen system is provided that is configured to mount to a structure. The projection screen system includes a housing, a roller, a screen, and a motor positioned to rotate the roller to raise and lower the screen. The projection screen system further includes a coupling configured to couple the motor to the electrical supply of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A. Shopp
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Patent number: 6379012Abstract: An overhead projector mounting system is provided that is configured to support a projector in a ceiling of a room. The system includes a housing having an opening through which an image generated by the projector is transmitted. Preferably, the system includes a mirror to reflect the image generated by the projector toward a viewing surface in the room.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Enochs, Robert D. Wilson
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Patent number: 6137629Abstract: A projection screen system that may be installed in a building in stages to reduce the risk of damage to the projection screen. The system includes a housing in which is mounted a socket circuitable with a power supply of the building. An assembly of the system that may be attached to the housing at a later stage of building construction includes a motor with a power cord, a roller and a projection screen. The motor rotates the roller to unwind the projection screen from around the roller and thereby lower the projection screen. A first end of the power cord is circuited to the motor, and a second end of the power conduit includes a plug that mates with the socket to operatively circuit the motor to the building's power supply. The housing also includes longitudinally extending lipped projections along its top wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1997Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A. Shopp
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Patent number: 6111694Abstract: A casing for a projection screen system that includes a fascia removable from the spine of the casing without the use of tools. The casing is provided with a roll locking hinge formed by a cooperating lip and socket furnished on the fascia and the spine. The roll locking hinge is configured to permit the fascia to be preliminarily mated with the spine when the fascia is disposed in an upwardly rotated arrangement. After the preliminary mating of the fascia with the spine, when subsequently rotated downward relative to the spine, the fascia is locked to the spine by the roll locking hinge, thereby preventing inadvertent fascia removal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1997Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Draper, Inc.Inventor: Rick A. Shopp
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Patent number: 5336323Abstract: Wallpaper dispenser for automatically hydrating a film of glue pre-applied to one side of a roll of wallpaper. The dispenser includes a reservoir having a roll of wallpaper rotatably supported thereover and a roller for guiding the wallpaper within a quantity of water contained within the reservoir. A ramp is provided for cutting the wallpaper and includes a cutting ridge along which a cutting member is drawn to cut the wallpaper perpendicular to the length thereof. A tape measure and means for securing the tape measure adjacent the ridge are provided to indicate the point, forwardly of the ridge, adjacent which the forward margin of the wallpaper should be positioned. A slidable member is provided to automatically align the pattern on one strip of wallpaper with the same pattern on a previously cut strip when the strips are positioned in laterally adjacent relation and with the top margins thereof in alignment.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1992Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: Paper Draper, Inc.Inventors: David Cotton, Adelbert H. Richards, III, James E. Harris