Abstract: A hurricane panel system on the outside of an opening that can be installed from inside a multiple story building, through an open window without requiring tools of any type or outside assistance. This panel system includes a pliable, fabric, polyester panel that has a pair of parallel, vertical hems each containing a hem cord that are sized in diameter to fit into a pair of parallel, vertical or horizontal tracks connected to the outside of the building adjacent a window. The pliable, fabric panel includes one or more fabric straps that can be used to manipulate the panel in and out of the tracks. One or more locking pins are used to secure the panel in place relative to the tracks.

Abstract: A roll down movable vertical screen, panel or shutter system (such as used for protecting against insects, solar wind, hurricanes, rain or providing for privacy and security having a bottom edge-weight bar and self-adjusting blade that automatically adjusts to variable pitched surfaces to seal the gap resulting from a roll down screen or shutter's bottom horizontal weight bar and a floor surface that is contoured or pitched in a non-horizontal direction running parallel to the direction of the weight bar. The self-adjusting weight bar for variable pitched surfaces generally including: a weight bar body, a self-adjusting blade, customizable attachment point, variable weights, and anti-warping stiffeners. These elements are to be found as the lowest element of a roll down screen or shutter.