Abstract: A sunshade consisting of one or more panels for all type windows and particularly side and rear vehicle windows. The sunshade is made of a tear resistant corrugated board material with die cuts that provide a plurality of louver apertures. Die cut notches may be provided for joining and interlocking one panel to the another permitting the sunshade to be made wider or narrower. The panels may also include integral stiffening members that double as mounting support legs so that the panels stiffly traverse large areas. The aperture flaps may be individually moved to any desirable angle that prevents sun glare and blaze from penetrating the windows of a moving vehicle, but without obstructing the ambient daylight or overall vision of the occupant. When parked, the flaps may be pressed back into the die cut aperture cavities so as to provide opaque panels for full sun blockage.

Abstract: A stable Tl.sub.2 O.sub.3, V.sub.2 O.sub.5, P.sub.2 O.sub.5 glass composition for a die attach paste requiring no resin and having a glassy edge temperature of below about 350.degree. C.

Abstract: Screening overhead door apparatus for screening a doorway, and for addition to existing overhead door apparatus, including a plurality of additional door panels hingedly attached together and provided with openings covered with foraminous material. An L-shaped track for mounting the additional door panels is attached to the existing track, and positioned inside and beneath the existing track. The additional door panels are mounted to the additional track by rollers journaled to brackets attached to the panels. As the rollers run along the track, the additional door panels move from a first position closing the doorway to a second position clearing the doorway. The uppermost panel is attached to the uppermost set of rollers by a slidable bracket, thus permitting the distance between the additional track and the uppermost edge of the panel to be easily altered.

Abstract: A portable, strong, lightweight, low-height automobile housing or garage encloses an automobile on five sides. A roll up rear door provides for entry of an automobile. The driver side wall and roof include have a side access opening extending through them such that a driver taller than the roof of the enclosure can ingress and egress the driver door in a normal standing manner. A roll up side door is moveable between an closed position closing the side access opening to an open position disposed under the roof and along the passenger side wall. Side and rear doors opens simultaneously. The door opening, closing, and locking mechanism is a pair of cable winches mounted on a shaft, each with a cable attached to the door. One winch for opening and one for closing a door. The cables are counter wound on the drums so that as one calbe is played out as the other is taken in. Thus the door may not move in either direction unless the cable drums are turned.

Abstract: A pivotally mounted secondary door, such as a screen door, for sliding doors, such as sliding glass "patio" doors. The secondary door swings inwardly and outwardly and preferably is provided with an automatic return. A system of seals is provided for preventing insects and such from entering around the edges of the secondary door and along the sides of the assembly. The assembly can be adjusted to accommodate sliding door frames of different internal vertical dimensions.

Abstract: A garage door screen system is provided for a sectional garage door of the type which opens to an overhead position while supported by rollers contained in channels. The screen system is for a partially opened garage door and, in the preferred embodiment, provides separate screens for the bottom opening and the opening at the top which occurs as the door panels pivot inwardly. The bottom screen is alternately a rigid panel which is supported by vertical guides to the lowest door panel, or a window shade draw down type. A latch holds the lower rigid screen so that it does not extend below the door panel. When the latch is released, the screen panel will descend. The latch can be re-engaged merely by lowering the door. Torsion springs in the roller mechanism, automatically retract the screen secured to it when the latch holding the screen in its extended position is released. The top screen is attached at its top end to an upper cylinder which is secured to the door frame by pipe clamps.

Abstract: A mullion section member is disclosed for fitting between a pair of adjacent roller shutter doors in a door opening. The mullion section member is of a suitable length, has opposed channels at opposite sides each for slidably receiving the edge of the curtain of a respective roller shutter door. A portion bridges the two channels, and behind said portion on the inside face of the mullion section member, there is provided flange means defining a recess between said flange means and said portion, in which a plate-like tongue member is slidably received to slide longitudinally of the length of the mullion section member. This permits the releasable fastening thereof to a similar mullion section member fastened relative to said door opening. The tongue member has a cut-out at one side which is hidden by said flange means.

Abstract: This invention is a method and an apparatus by which a barrier is automatically placed before partially opened doors, which barrier is automatically removed when the door is fully opened and safe for travel. The invention includes means to detect when the door is fully opened and thereupon to activate barrier removal means, together with barrier placement means automatically activated at any time when the door is not fully opened.

Abstract: A rail car having an interior cavity defined partially by vertical rail car side walls and a roof structure with an inwardly and upwardly directed portion to improve car clearance is disclosed. Access to the cavity for loading and unloading lading is through an end opening. A pair of door assemblies, each of which includes a plurality of panels, each panel of which is pivotally movable with respect to the others, are included for closing the end opening. Pivot means for mounting each of the door assemblies are provided to move the door assemblies between their respective folded open positions and unfolded closed positions. The pivot means are mounted for movement toward and away from the interior of the rail car to permit storage of the folded door assemblies within the rail car along the car side walls. Top panel portions extend from the top of the door assemblies angularly inwardly relative to the opening and in spaced relation with each other and the roof structure.

Abstract: A screen door construction for selective attachment to a garage for placement in a garage door opening including an upper screen panel, a lower screen panel hingedly secured to said upper screen panel, a hinge pivotally mounting the upper edge of the upper screen panel to the upper edge of a garage door opening, first adjuster members for permitting the adjustment of the upper and lower panels within the garage door opening so as to fit them properly to occupy the entire height of the door opening and to extend horizontally therein, second adjuster members for adjusting the width of the panels to fit properly within the width of the garage door opening, and attachment structure for selectively attaching and detaching the upper screen panel relative to the garage door opening.

Abstract: A curtain for forming a substantially airtight closure for a building opening such as a doorway having a roll-up door at such time as the door is in its lower, closed position. A pair of remotely operated zippers connect opposite sides of the curtain to the opposite sides of the doorway.

Abstract: This invention relates to a sports net and the mounting structure therefor which are of some height and width used for play or practice of golf, tennis, basketball, baseball or the like and secured to a one or two car garage and mounted in the garage above the top frame. The netting is of scrim, i.e., a coarse, open weave fabric on a plastic roller with a reel and axle support means for storing and lowering the netting. The sports net may be used in the garage for golf or tennis practice in inclement weather or out of doors with the garage door open. The mounting is between the lower edge of the raised garage door and the frame when the garage is raised.

Abstract: A reinforcing means for a closure having a slatted, articulated, shutter for openings in a wall of a building, in the form of a readily detachable beam disposed in close proximity with the shutter. The lower end of the beam is attached to the frame of the closure, and the upper end of the beam is received within a slotted member attached to a wall of the building.

Abstract: An awning extends from a wall of a garage over the top of the doorway to the garage. A plurality of storm door sections are hingedly affixed to each other vertically and slidably mounted in guide tracks beneath the awning for positioning in a plane parallel to the wall of the garage. A plurality of screen sections are hingedly affixed to each other horizontally and slidably mounted in additional guide tracks beneath the awning for positioning in a plane parallel to the wall of the garage.

Abstract: A garage door structure includes a pair of doors each movable between a closed position and an open position for the side-by-side door openings. The garage door structure includes components for moving the doors together as a unit between the open position and the closed position. The doors are tied together as a unit by an upper tie member and a lower tie member each extending between and having opposite end portions thereof each connected to a side edge portion of a respective one of the doors. A remote controlled power device or operator is operatively connected to the upper tie member for selectively and simultaneously moving the doors between the open position and the closed position.

Abstract: A temporary door installation for a grain-carrying freight car wherein steel strapping of the character used in the temporary doors themselves is employed for a cross-tie and reinforced by wooden vertical members on the outside of the temporary doors.

Abstract: Doors such as garage doors are commonly mounted with respect to a door opening so as to be capable of being moved between a closed position in which such a door extends vertically across the opening and an opened position in which such a door extends substantially horizontally adjacent to the top of the door opening. An auziliary door such as a screen door for enclosing such an opening when such a principal door is in an opened position may be mounted on such a principal door so that it is capable of being moved along with the principal door between the opened and closed positions of the principal door and so that it can be moved to enclose the door opening when the principal door is in an opened position.