Abstract: A coiling door particularly useful for high wind load conditions includes roller assemblies which are captured in guides along lateral side edges of the door to minimize the drag and friction of the door during operation. As such, the coiling door is operable even under high wind load conditions for movement to and between closed positions because of the roller arrangement coupling the lateral side edges of the door to guides mounted along the sides of the door opening.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 1999
Date of Patent:
July 17, 2001
Assignee:
Clopay Building Products R&D Company, Inc.
Abstract: A new soft-top type vehicle cover for preventing theft. The inventive device includes a cover member that is adapted for extending over a passenger compartment of the vehicle between an upper edge of a windshield of the vehicle and a rear of the vehicle. The cover member has a roof portion, a rear portion, and a pair of door portions. Each of the door portions has a door window opening. A plurality of pairs of window tracks are adapted for coupling to vertical sides of the window openings. One pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of one of the door window openings. Another pair of window tracks is coupled to the sides of another of the door window openings. A plurality of transparent window panes are disposed in a window opening between a pair of window tracks. Each of the window panes has a top, a bottom, and a pair of side ends and is deformable. The window panes in the door window openings slide out of lower ends of the window tracks as they move from a closed position towards an opened position.
Abstract: In a sun blind for a vehicle roof a sun blind is situated below a panel which is displaceably associated with a roof opening, this blind, when not in use, automatically being wound up on a spool (9) which is mounted roof-side. The blind sheet (8) of the sun blind is guided in a sliding manner using its side edges along guide rails (15) attached laterally in the roof opening. The guide rails (15) and the side edges of the blind sheet (8) are formed in such a manner and engage with one another such that the side edges can be slid easily in the guide rails in the course of opening and closing movements of the sun blind, but cannot be pulled out of the guide rails in a transverse direction to the direction of movement of the blind, whereby the edge areas of the blind sheet are secured against fluttering and vibration movements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 17, 1998
Date of Patent:
January 30, 2001
Assignee:
Meritor Automotive GmbH
Inventors:
Horst Bohm, Thomas Becher, Rainer Grimm