Abstract: A door closing device including closing means for urging a door between said first open position and second closed position having a cable mounted in a housing said cable wound about periphery of a reel regulating the speed of movement of said door between the open position and closed position; a reservoir for containing viscous fluid; and a buffer for retarding the speed of movement of said door comprising an impeller immersed in the viscous fluid for use as a brake; whereby the impeller reduces rotational speed of said reel, thus reducing closing speed of said door.

Abstract: A drive device (2) for translatory displaceable component parts in motor vehicles, more particularly for window regulators or sliding roofs is connected by an axis (6) to a base part (1) which consists of a part of the translatory displaceable component part (1). The drive device is supported for swivel movement about the axial centre point and elastically relative the base part (1).

Abstract: A new interior window locking system for preventing intruders from gaining illegal entry into a building. The inventive device includes a pair of horizontally disposed guide rails secured above and below a window within a window frame. A pair of square tubing frames are slidably disposed between the guide rails. Each of the frames have a steel grate disposed therein. A spring-loaded latch assembly is disposed on corresponding inner members of the pair of square tubing frames for engagement thereof.

Abstract: A horizontal door assembly is provided with pivotal counter balancing spring comprising an upper cylinder and a mating lower cylinder to force the cover of the door to an open position when the door assembly is unlocked wherein the upper cylinder of the counter balancing spring is configured to reduce the forces of the spring on the pivot points of the counter balancing mechanism thereby increasing the life of the counter balancing mechanism. In a preferred embodiment, the counter balancing spring mechanism is made of plastic and has an ear at the upper end thereof with an elongated slot opening the slot having a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder for mating with a pin inserted in an opening in a yoke bracket attached to the lower side of the cover.

Abstract: The counter balance system for a vehicle liftgate includes a pair of gas cylinders in combination with a torsion rod. The gas cylinders urge the liftgate toward an open position but due to a short moment arm do not exert sufficient force to open the liftgate until the liftgate has pivoted about one third of the distance from the closed position toward the open position. The torsion rod also urges the liftgate toward an open position. Maximum force is exerted by the torsion rod when the liftgate is closed. As the liftgate moves toward an open position, the force exerted by the torsion rod decreases until the liftgate is midway between closed and open. The torque rod does not exert any force on the liftgate during the last portion of its movement to an open position.

Abstract: A pivotably-mounted extendable gate for restricting access by infants or pets through an opening defined by a pair of opposed vertical surfaces or walls. The gate is pivotably mounted via hinges pivotably attached to the gate which are slidably received within sleeves of retaining brackets mounted to one of the walls. The gate is extendable and retractable via two separate and similar gate members which are slidably coupled together. A pair of vertically-spaced-apart receptacles mounted on the opposite walls receive upper and lower portions of one of the gate members to prevent pivotable movement of the gate when so received. A latch provided on the upper portion of the gate engages with the upper receptacle to prevent sliding movement of the gate.

Abstract: An adjustable shutter assembly having an automated adjustment system including an electronic actuating device, such as an electric actuating motor. The shutter assembly has at least one and typically a plurality of parallel slats rotatably attached at both ends to a frame. The actuating motor is embedded within a self-contained module that can strengthen the shutter frame and be hidden from view. The actuating motor has a spindle that is coaxially connected to one end of an actuator slat selected from among the plurality of parallel slats. The spindle typically includes a tongue that engages a receiving pocket of the actuator slat without additional fastening mechanisms. One or more of the other slats are interconnected with the actuator slat such that rotation of the actuator slat is accompanied by substantially synchronous rotation of the other slats interconnected thereto. Selecting the actuator slat from among the more centrally located slats provides for more reliable and secure closure of all slats.

Abstract: A hinge mechanism for use with a cover for opening and closing a hole. The mechanism is designed to support the cover and enable the cover to rotate through an angle greater than 90.degree. between an opened position and a closed position. The mechanism comprises an axle to be secured to the chamber, a support member having a first part rotatably supported by the axle and a second part spaced from the first part, a rotary member to be secured to the cover, the rotary member rotatably supported by the second part of the support member and capable of rotating around the support member when the cover is rotated, and a rotation-transmitting mechanism supported by the support member, connecting the rotary member to the axle to allow the support member to rotate in a first direction around the axle when the rotary member is rotated in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A lock assembly, for a door panel of a transit vehicle, has its locking action directly driven by the door operator into which it is incorporated. The locking assembly holds the door panel in a closed position through direct contact with the door panel, providing improved reliability by bypassing intermediate components of the door operator.

Abstract: A gate operator for lifting a gate about a horizontal axis at a lower proximate corner thereof to vertically raise and lower a gate in a generally 90 degree arc in the plane of the gate by using a fractional horsepower motor and an energy accumulator, which can be a torsion motor, a pneumatic mechanism or an enclosed spring mechanism. The motor is only used to initiate movement in the upward and downward cycles of the gate and to regulate the speed of the gate by damping the release of accumulated energy. A drive mechanism connects the motor to the energy accumulator. Energy is stored to the energy accumulator during the downward movement of the gate and released during the upward movement of the gate to reduce the amount of power required to operate the gate.

Abstract: The audio peephole for doors (T) comprises two flange bushings (2, 3), which are inserted into one another and held together by a two-piece screw-type optical spy-hole (1), with the flange bushings (2, 3) having in their flange (2a, 3a) a central reception hole (4) for the optical spy-hole (1) and at a distance around this central reception hole (4) a plurality of sound apertures (5) penetrating the flange (2a, 3a) and terminating in the hollow space (H) of the flange bushings (2, 3). These sound apertures (5) can be opened for sound transmission and closed against sound transmission by means of a manually rotatable apertured disk (6) provided behind the flange (2a) of the flange bushing (2) on the interior of the door.

Abstract: A window lift system generally comprises a motor driving a threaded shaft threadably engaging a nut slidably mounted in a bracket. A link has a first end rotatably mounted to the nut and a second end rotatably mounted to an end of a pivotally mounted arm. An opposite end of the arm engaging the window glass raises and lowers the window glass as the arm pivots.

Abstract: A rack is made up of a plurality of support rods and locating devices for locating the support rods. Each of the locating devices are composed of a hollow tubular body, an elastic ring, and a control piece. The tubular body is provided respectively at both longitudinal ends thereof with outer threads and an outer tapered circular edge. The control piece is tubular in shape and is provided with a center through hole and an inner tapered circular edge. The elastic ring is disposed between the outer tapered circular edge of the tubular body and the inner tapered circular edge of the control piece. The support rod is received in the hollow interior of the tubular body and the center through hole of the control piece such that the outer wall of the support rod is pressed against firmly by the elastic ring at the time when the control piece is so turned as to cause the inner tapered circular edge thereof to press against the elastic ring.

Abstract: An extendable sunshade for attachment to a garage door comprising a plurality of canopy units and a support frame mounted to the inside face of the garage door for supporting the canopy units. A pair of support rails are disposed on the support frame for slidably engaging with a first canopy unit. Each of the canopy units includes a rectangular body structure having large openings, about which coverings are securely attached and telescopic legs pivotally connected to the corners of the body structure for maintaining the canopy unit in the extended position. Each of the canopy units further includes two external sides on which a plurality of rollers are disposed about for slidably engaging with support rails and two internal sides provided with support rails for slidably engaging with the rollers of an inner canopy unit. The canopy units can be slidably extended from the support frame while the garage door is opened to provide shade over the driveway.

Abstract: A safety auxiliary apparatus for an automatic door assembly includes a single door or first and second doors slidable along a predetermined track for selectively opening and closing the doorway, first and second mutually confronting closure faces being defined by said first and second doors or said single door in cooperation with a brace. A casing accommodating therein a light emitting element for emitting a beam for detection of an object and a light receiving element for receiving the beam from the light emitting element is mounted in a longitudinal frame member of the doors or said brace that define respectively said closure faces, so that an optical path can be defined between said closure faces so as to extend from the light emitting element to the light receiving element.

Abstract: The mechanism comprises longitudinal rails and, for each door, a double slide assembly of which a first slide slides along the rails and a second slide, constrained to the door, moves at right angles to the first slide between a retracted position in which the door is closed and an extracted position in which the door is opened, at a distance from said first position at least equal to the thickness of the door or a multiple thereof. A longitudinal traverse of the slide assembly is allowed only when the second slide is in the extracted position with respect to the first. The retracted position is forced by spring means between the second slide and the first slide. The width of the slide assembly is smaller than the width of the door, generally being half, a third or a quarter thereof.

Abstract: A safety cabinet for the storage of flammable or combustible materials that has doors and a closure mechanism designed to automatically close and latch the doors in the event of fire. The closing mechanism is fully automatic and eliminates mechanical timing features as well as provides an automatic positive method and structure of closing the doors of the cabinet to insure a complete seal and lock. Furthermore, the latching assembly is operated using a handle which may be rotated into a tucked position. In this position, the handle rests in a cavity formed within the doors of the cabinet for protectively shielding the latching assembly to prevent accidental or unauthorized opening and handle breakage.

Abstract: A snap-in device for connecting a window pane with a window regulator by using at least one pair of elastically expanding jaws wherein one of the jaws has at least one snap-in element in the form of a hook or pin pointing in the direction of the window pane and is associated with a hole in the pane. An insert guide device serves to expand the jaws when inserting the window pane into the snap-in device. In the engaged state of the window pane, the circumference of the snap-in element fills out the hole in the pane at least over a part of the width of the snap-in element.

Abstract: Curved transparent panels, suspended from a pair of parallel, curved tracks, are deployed in overlapping relationship to one another on top of a curved counter from a storage enclosure in which the panels are in stacked relationship to one another.

Abstract: A door jamb assembly (10) for a door (13) having a lock (17), the jamb assembly (10) including a movable side jamb member (14) which is mounted for movement laterally of the door (13) and between a first position adjacent the door (13) to enable the lock bolt (16) of the door lock (17) to engage a striker plate (15) carried by the jamb member (14) and a position where the jamb member (14) moves the striker plate (15) free of the lock bolt (16) to enable the door (13) to be opened without release of the lock (17).