Patents Assigned to TMI Incorporated
  • Patent number: 6945304
    Abstract: A single-piece molded plastic hanger for flexible plastic strips of a strip door system having a backing-plate portion and a cover portion connected with a continuous hinge portion. The backing-plate portion is mountable to a header of an opening and supporting studs and locking studs of the backing-plate portion engage apertures of the flexible strips to support them in a vertically hanging manner. The cover portion retains the hanging strips on the supporting studs and locking studs and the cover portion is held in a closed condition by engagement of the locking studs with the cover portion. Replacement of flexible strips is easily carried out manually without the use of hand tools, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: TMI Incorporated
    Inventor: Joseph Peter Kleynjans
  • Patent number: 6941999
    Abstract: A hanger for plastic strips having uniformity spaced apertures along an end portion thereof, to form a strip door across an opening. Uniformily spaced studs are provided on a mountable backing plate to support the plastic strips. A retaining plate retains the strips on the studs which have locking means along the length thereof, so as to provide an adjustable effective length for each of the studs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: TMI Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard Michael Paterni
  • Patent number: 6933030
    Abstract: A continuous web of flexible plastic strips, for use in a flexible strip door system, the continuous web of flexible plastic strips having uninterrupted cuts, of a depth less than the thickness of the web, arranged along lines which are perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the web. Remaining material of the web, which is located below each cut, provides sufficient strength along the length of the web to prevent severing during routine handling, but allows for manual tearing of the web along the cuts when the web is subjected to opposing forces perpendicular to upper and lower faces of the web on either side of the cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: TMI Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard Michael Paterni