Abstract: An operating device for a rolling shutter assembly comprising a reeling shaft for a shutter wherein the shaft is rotated by a motor connected to a flange. The flange is fixed to a toothed wheel that can mesh with a thread of a screw so as to immobilize the rotation of the flange. The thread of the screw is provided with at least one flat, so that the mechanical connection between the toothed wheel and the screw can be disengaged when a flat is positioned adjacent the toothed wheel. Disconnection of the screw from the wheel allows a rapid operation of the shutter for reasons of security or maintenance.

Abstract: Closures such as rolling shades or blinds which include a drum for winding slats of the closure body and which are formed by two superposed shafts. Separation devices are provided adapted to prevent any friction between layers of slats wound on the shafts. These devices may include stepped pulleys associated with slat end pieces of different lengths.

Abstract: An electric gear motor with reduction gears and automatic brake for shutters, wherein an emergency control is provided to allow the shutter to be manually maneuvered in the event of motor brake down or loss of power. A toothed ring is normally retained in a non-rotatable position relative to the reduction gears under the influence of a yieldable leg of a spring pin. The yieldable leg is movable away from the ring to permit the ring to rotate with the reduction gears and free of a motor drive shaft in the event the motor fails to activate in a normal manner thus enabling the shutters to be manually operated.

Abstract: A device for controlling a motor unit which displaces a screening unit which includes a power supply with at least one controlled electronic switch designed to feed a regulated electrical output to the motor unit and a control loop with a circuit which detects the difference between the value of the electrical output produced by the power supply and a reference value, and wherein the reference value is selected for the electrical output as a function of input signals received by the device.

Abstract: Roller assemblies having a drum upon which a closure is wound and unwound and wherein a drive mechanism within the drum is meshed with a plurality of elongated ribs extending along the inner surface of the drum and wherein the limiting controls for the drive mechanism include a pair of travelling nuts which are also meshed with the ribs of the drum for mechanically actuating the limiting controls.

Abstract: A device for automatically releasing the braking mechanism of roller blinds or shutters or the like which are selectively operated by a motor drivingly connected to the drum of the blind wherein a drive shaft for the drum is prevented from rotating by gripping a brake disk between two rotating plates. Releasing of the brake is automatically effected as soon as the motor is activated by magnetic attraction of a yoke, which includes one of the rotating plates, against a spring element. In the event of an electrical failure, the brake may be released manually by mechanically urging the yoke from the brake disk against the action of the spring element.

Abstract: A two-speed reducing mechanism for controlling the adjustment of a closure such as a blind having adjustable slats which includes a drive input shaft or wheel which is meshed with a planetary ger system supported by an output drive ring which itself is oriented within a rotatable bushing which may be selectively secured from rotation by a braking device. The planetary gear assembly is also meshed with the bushing so that when the bushing is rotatable, the closure member may be quickly adjusted in a one-to-one drive relationship with respect to the input shaft, however, when the bushing is prevented from rotating, the elements of the planetary gear assembly will rotate upon themselves causing a speed reduction.