With Release Mechanism Patents (Class 160/278)
  • Patent number: 9708850
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting an actuator button to a rail wherein the fastener for securing the button housing to the rail is hidden from view of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Richard N Anderson, Eugene W Thompson, Robert E Fisher, II
  • Patent number: 7302988
    Abstract: A breakaway awning includes an awning moveable between an open position and a closed position and having a lead rail attached to a leading edge of the awning. A pair of tracks mountable on opposite sides of a window are provided with longitudinal slots therein. Track guides are slidably disposed within a corresponding slot and awning guides are fixed to opposite ends of the lead rail. Track guide fittings and awning guide fittings engagable with one another enable both longitudinal movement of the lead rail along the tracks and transverse separation of the lead rail and awning guides from the track guides and track upon the application of force thereto thus facilitating egress from the underline window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Girard Systems
    Inventor: Robert G. Heitel
  • Patent number: 6918425
    Abstract: A non-pull cord operable Venetian blind includes a retaining device located at each end of a lower beam of a Venetian blind therein in working with a retaining cord. The retaining device is made up of a holding sleeve, a driven member adapted at the holding sleeve therein, a limiting spring joined to one side of the driven member with a pair of left and right stop legs protruding at a limiting hole of the holding sleeve, a rotary member to activate the driven member therewith, and an outer cap applied at the outer side of the holding sleeve. The retaining cord is wound through alternative left and right blades of the rotary member and clamped by abutting ribs of the holding sleeve before led straight downwards to be securely located at a windowsill at the bottom end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: Leslie Nien
  • Patent number: 5829504
    Abstract: The apparatus relates, according to a first aspect, to an edge guiding arrangement, for a door having a plurality of mutually rotatable panels (2) which are extended between and movable along two elongate guides (4) at opposite edge portions (8) of the panels (2). The edge guiding arrangement comprises such a guide (4), a guide device (16) engaging and being movable along the guide (4), and a joint between the guide device (16) and an edge portion of a panel (2). The edge guiding arrangement is characterised in that the guide device (16) is rotatable relative to the guide (4) in a plane (P) perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the guide (4), and that the joint between the guide device (16) and the panel (2) is resiliently flexible in said plane (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: Nomafa AB
    Inventors: Marie Ingela Christina Ekstrand, Hans-Inge Bertilsson, Nils H.ang.kan Ivar Larsson
  • Patent number: 4702297
    Abstract: A rolling window screen assembly is provided for a window frame having a sill, a head and opposite side jambs. The screen assembly comprises a screen mounted at the head of the window frame and being unrollable along the jambs thereof. A pair of guide members are mounted on and extend along each side jamb for guiding the opposite edges of the screen as the screen is unrolled along the jambs. Control levers adjacent each side edge of the screen frictionally engage the guide members so as to control the position of the screen along the guide members. The guide members are mounted to the window frame jambs by a plurality of L-shaped clips which extend through a corresponding slot in the respective guide members. A spring is positioned in each guide member for centering the unrolled screen between the pair of guide members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Rolscreen Company
    Inventor: Marlo Van Klompenburg
  • Patent number: 4658879
    Abstract: A rolling window screen assembly is provided for a window frame having a sill, a head and opposite side jambs. The screen assembly comprises a screen mounted at the head of the window frame and being unrollable along the jambs thereof. A pair of guide members are mounted on and extend along each side jamb for guiding the opposite edges of the screen as the screen is unrolled along the jambs. Control levers adjacent each side edge of the screen frictionally engage the guide members so as to control the position of the screen along the guide members. The guide members are mounted to the window frame jambs by a plurality of L-shaped clips which extend through a corresponding slot in the respective guide members. A spring is positioned in each guide member for centering the unrolled screen between the pair of guide members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Assignee: Rolscreen Company
    Inventor: Marlo Van Klompenburg