Patents Assigned to Modernfold, Incorporated
  • Patent number: 5551499
    Abstract: An operable partition seal assembly for use with an operable partition to provide an air-tight seal between the operable partition and a carpeted floor. The seal assembly includes a first sealing strip attached to an underside of an operable partition drop seal. The seal assembly also includes a second sealing strip installed in the carpeted floor beneath the operable partition when it is in a wall forming position. The second sealing strip includes a thin, upwardly extending sealing portion which is disposed within the carpet and which sealingly engages the first sealing strip to provide a sound barrier seal. The second sealing strip also preferably includes a mechanism for retaining the upwardly extending sealing portion in an operational alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Assignee: Modernfold, Incorporated
    Inventor: Jerald A. McRoberts
  • Patent number: 5499671
    Abstract: An anti-float system for operable partitions in a movable wall system. The anti-float system includes first and second camming assemblies, each including a trolley camming surface, cooperatively positioned along the operable partition track. Preferably both of the trolley camming surfaces are spring biased to camming positions where they define a passageway through which a portion of the trolley passes when the trolley moves along the track. The passageway is narrower than the width of the trolley portion. When the trolley portion enters the passageway while traveling in the wall extending direction, the trolley portion engages the trolley camming surfaces and forces the surfaces outward from their camming positions against a resistance provided by the biasing springs in order for the trolley to pass. The camming assemblies are also movable from a camming alignment to a retracted alignment when the trolley portion travels in the wall stacking direction through the passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Modernfold, Incorporated
    Inventor: N. Douglas Owens
  • Patent number: 5467559
    Abstract: An electrically operated drop seal assembly for a pass door in an operable wall. The drop seal assembly includes an actuator which is selectively movable by a motor between a first position and a second position. The assembly also includes a retractable drop seal which is movable between a retracted position spaced from the floor over which the pass door is suspended and a sealed position in sealing engagement with the floor. A coupling of the drop seal assembly converts movement of the actuator from the first position to the second position into movement of the retractable drop seal from the retracted position to the sealed position. The assembly also includes a pass door opening activated retractor for raising the retractable drop seal from the sealed position when the pass door is moved relative to the operable wall from a closed position to an opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Modernfold, Incorporated
    Inventor: N. Douglas Owens