Abstract: A system protects an opening such as a window or a door from high wind and wind-borne debris by holding a panel such as plywood over the opening. An anchor bolt engages a resilient strap that holds the panel; a bracket secures the resilient strap to the head of the anchor bolt. In some cases, the anchor bolt can retract into the wall next to the opening when the system is not in use.

Abstract: A system for protecting a window or other opening to a building against hurricane-force winds, including: (a) four or more bolts, screws or rods; (b) four or more wedge brackets, each wedge bracket having a longitudinal slot along its centerline, and an aperture at the base of and continuous with the slot, the aperture having a diameter larger than the diameter of the bolt head, sloped sides along the slot, the slope along the sides decreasing from the top of the slot to the aperture at the bottom of the slot; and (c) one or two rectangular-shaped protective panels, each panel being of slightly larger length and width than the opening to be covered, each panel having an aperture in each corner area.

Abstract: A moldable textile material and process for making a textile material partially or wholly impregnated with a variably stiffening polymer rigidifier comprising: a needled non-woven fabric substrate comprising one or more fibers selected from the group consisting of polyesters, polyacrylics, polyester, copolymers, polyacrylic copolymers, wool, cotton, consensation polymers of diamines and dicarboxylic acids, caprolactam based polymers and regenerated cellulose based polymers; and a latex impregnant comprising at least about 25 percent by weight of water, one or more fillers selected from the group consisting of calcium carbonate, clay and zinc oxide, and one or more stiffeners selected from the group consisting of polystyrene, styrene-acrylonitrile, styrene-acrylonitrile-butadiene, styrene acrylates, styrene butadiene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, alkyl acrylates, polyvinylidene chloride, ethylene vinyl chloride and copolymer and terpolymer of these resins; the fabric substrate being needled in sheet

Abstract: A stiff reinforcing laminate which is moldable into complex, compound curve shapes and bondable to a carrier surface to be reinforced to provide a tough, water-resistant reinforcement, usable for instance in outdoorsmen's or military boots as counter or box toe reinforcement element, comprises a tough core layer of thermoplastic resin and at least one strength layer of saturated fabric, the saturant being a solvent or heat activatable adhesive, the fibers of the saturated fabric layer being in part geometrically locked into the tough thermoplastic resin layer.