Abstract: A vehicle drape for retaining heated air and cooled air inside a front seat area of a vehicle. The drape is adapted for releasable attachment to a pair of vehicle ceiling hanger hooks disposed on opposite sides of a ceiling of the vehicle and behind the front seats of the vehicle. Also, the drape is adaptable for adjusting to different sizes and shapes of vehicle interiors and designed for redirecting air flow back into a front seat area. The drape includes a transparent thin sheet of plastic vinyl. The sides of the thin sheet include gripping scalloped edges for gripping the sides, ceiling and floor of the vehicle. A horizontal nylon suspension strap is attached to a length of an upper portion of the thin sheet. The horizontal suspension strap includes an adjustable first end and an adjustable second end. The first end and the second end include a moveable hook fastener strap arm and a loop fastener strap arm.

Abstract: A passenger compartment divider for a motor vehicle comprising a substantially flexible barrier. A flexible frame extends about perimeter of the barrier. An air-filled support cushion surrounds the flexible frame. A facility is for inflating the support cushion. When the barrier with the flexible frame is positioned vertically behind front seats of the passenger compartment in the motor vehicle and the support cushion is filled by the inflating facility, a seal is produced to make a secure fit between the rear portion and front portion of the passenger compartment, to allow the front seat area to heat or cool in less than half of the normal time required.

Abstract: The removable screen for covering a building opening includes elongated channels configured for attachment to building structure defining a large building opening; and a screen member configured for releasable attachment to the elongated channels. The screen member includes a screen panel permitting light and air to pass there through but preventing insects from passing therethrough, and border strips attached to three sides of the perimeter of the screen panel. The border strip is configured to slidably engage the elongated channels to retain the screen member over the garage door opening. An elastic strip is attached along at least one side of the perimeter, and a zipper attached between the border strip and the zipper.

Abstract: A window screen attachment apparatus and method for attaching a screen to a window frame. The apparatus includes a mesh screen with a rigid frame, a number of ferromagnetic cups and mating permanent magnets, and a gasket. Each cup is permanently attached to the screen frame at the surface or in a recess, and includes a depression with a flat floor and a perpendicular wall. The magnet is shaped to fit relatively snuggly into the depression. The cup is either a single piece of ferromagnetic material, separate floor and wall components, or a single floor component and a wall that is the sides of a recess in the screen frame. The magnets are attached to the window frame by an adhesive that is initially protected by a release layer. The gasket is a set of compressible strips that provides a barrier items passing through the gap between the window and screen frames. The window screen is attached by placing the magnets in the cups, removing the release layer, and pressing the adhesive against the window frame.

Abstract: A transparent or opaque sheet is affixed onto the inner surface of a side door window glass of a vehicle for coloration, light blockage, decoration and the like. In the sheet-affixed window glass, the sheet is directly but detachably affixed onto the inner surface of the window glass via a front holder and a back holder.

Abstract: A new vehicle screen for attaching to the exterior roof of a vehicle to cover an open roof opening. The inventive device includes a generally rectangular flexible mesh screen having a plurality of spaces therethrough. A flexible border member is extended around the outer periphery of the mesh screen. The lower surface of the border member is designed for detachably mounting on the exterior roof of a vehicle around the periphery of a roof opening through the roof of the vehicle. Provided on the lower surface is a magnetic strip which is designed for magnetically mounting the lower surface of the border member to the exterior roof of a vehicle. Provided on the upper surface of the border member is an elongate attachment strip. The attachment strip is designed for attaching to a wind shield device upwardly extending from the exterior roof of a vehicle adjacent the roof opening.

Abstract: A weather barrier kit is provided comprising double-faced tape used to bond a film to a window frame and a folded and rolled sheet of film having a stiffening band and strip of adhesive across the top. The provision of a stiffening band with adhesive thereon across the top of the film allows one to apply the film squarely, without stretching and without the need of measuring beforehand.

Abstract: A covered casing assembly includes a fabric member made of an elastic material, such as a Spandex containing material, that is stretched over a casing and having at least one opening surrounding an accessible feature of the casing. The fabric member may be in the form of a tube having two openings, one at each end of the openings at each. end of the tube. An aperture adjustment feature is provided for sizing and shaping an aperture in the fabric member. Such a feature may be tabs formed by slits extending into the fabric member from around a periphery of the opening and the tabs are bent under the fabric member between the fabric member and the casing. Another more particular embodiment of the invention includes symbols or a design printed on an outside of the tube.The present invention also includes a method for covering the computer monitor by stretching the tube over the casing and adjusting the opening to surround the screen using the features of the claimed assembly.

Abstract: A safety restraining net for a car window. The restraining net comprises a net frame, mesh webbing, and one or more attachment devices for attaching the restraining net to the vehicle door. At least one of the attachment devices may be configured for fastening below a hinge of the car door, a latch of the car door, and/or the bottom of the car door. Once installed, a net according the invention allows doors and/or windows to open and close normally.

Abstract: A safety restraining net for a car window. The restraining net comprises a net frame, mesh webbing, and one or more attachment devices for attaching the restraining net to the vehicle door. At least one of the attachment devices may be configured for fastening below a hinge of the car door, a latch of the car door, and/or the bottom of the car door. Once installed, a net according the invention allows doors and/or windows to open and close normally.

Abstract: A foldable cargo cover comprising a pliable sheet having a plurality of elongate stiffener members attached thereto at selected locations thereon. The stiffener members are of sufficient rigidity to maintain the sheet in a substantially planar configuration when fully unfolded, and bendable for allowing the sheet to be folded into a compact configuration.

Abstract: An article has a sheet of material dimensioned to cover the opening to the cargo area of a vehicle. The sheet is adapted for releasable engagement about the periphery of the cargo opening. The sheet is made of screen or other mesh-like material. Various fasteners, such as a zipper, velcro, adhesive, snaps, clasps, and the like. In one embodiment, an elastomeric cord looped through the outer periphery of the sheet is adapted to stretch into place about a rubber gasket located about the periphery of the cargo opening. In a similar embodiment, an elastic band is used in such a manner. In another embodiment, a draw string is provided at the periphery of the sheet for drawing the sheet tightly about the rubber gasket on the vehicle. Preferably, a wide band of stretchable material, such as elastic or Spandex.RTM. is positioned between the mesh sheet and the outer periphery to permit the article, when in place, to yield to certain forces without becoming unattached from the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for covering an opening in a structure. The system is for use with a structure having sidewalls which surround the opening and extend along the periphery of the opening. The system includes a frame which is mountable on the sidewalls and a cover sheet for covering the opening. The frame of the system has a channel formed therein. The system further includes a single piece flexible fastener, which is secured to the cover sheet, wherein the fastener is received by the channel for securely but detachably retaining the fasteners to the frame.

Abstract: An open mesh fabric material defined by hexagonal openings is fashioned into a see-through, protective hood or cover which is fit over the upper or window portion of the door of a motor vehicle, and protects the occupants of the vehicle from rocks, bricks, block and other debris thrown at a motor vehicle. Straps, coupled to the cover, loop around the bottom of the door for securing the cover over the window opening in the door. The straps are preferably elastic so that when fitted under the door the straps hold the cover in place over the window and exert a pulling force on the cover to pull the open mesh material taut over the window opening. Alternatively, buckles or strap length adjusting hardware may be used to shorten the effective length of the straps. A clear, transparent plastic sheet is connected to the cover, positioned inside the hood so as to be situated between the inner surface of the window and the inside sheet of the cover.

Abstract: A driveway guard for installation across a driveway to prevent playthings from going into the street. The driveway guard includes a pair of posts, a net with an apron, guy lines, tent pegs and assemblies for connecting the net to the posts. The net is long enough to span a two-car driveway and has a dividing strip separating the net into two net portions. One of the net portions has a length for spanning a one-car driveway. A pair of belts are attached to the dividing strip. To install the driveway guard across a two-car driveway, the entire length of the net is suspended across the driveway between the posts, which are staked and guyed into the ground on opposite sides of the driveway. The apron engages the driveway to prevent objects from rolling under the net into the street. For a one-car driveway, the net is rolled up from one end to the dividing strip and the belts are run around the roll and buckled. The one-car net portion is then suspended across the driveway.

Abstract: A fabric panel clean change-out frame, for use on a containment structure having rigid walls, is formed of a compression frame and a closure panel. The frame is formed of elongated spacers, each carrying a plurality of closely spaced flat springs, and each having a hooked lip extending on the side of the spring facing the spacer. The closure panel is includes a perimeter frame formed of flexible, wedge-shaped frame members that are receivable under the springs to deflect the hooked lips. A groove on the flexible frame members engages the hooked lips and locks the frame members in place under the springs. A flexible fabric panel is connected to the flexible frame members and closes its center.

Abstract: A flexible and reusable plastic window covering is designed to be selectively attached over an existing window opening to reduce or eliminate air leakage and drafts. Either hook and loop fasteners or locking strips can be used to attach the plastic sheath over a window opening and, if desired, the sheath can be provided with a zipper to allow air flow through the window. Special locking strips can be used to securely attach the flexible sheath over a window opening while facilitating an easy removal when required.

Abstract: A snap fastener assembly useful for attaching a tonneau cover to a base structure such as a pick-up truck cargo box. The assembly includes a pair of mating fasteners, one of which is attached to the edge of the tonneau cover. The other fastener is slidably mounted along a rail on the sidewall of the cargo box. The rail-mounted fastener can be mounted in any of a plurality of positions in the direction the user pulls the cover to tighten it so that the user can adjust the tautness of the cover depending upon the position of the rail-mounted fastener.

Abstract: A display device is formed of thin plastic sheet material extending about a peripheral frame. The frame is formed of a relatively stiff annular core element encapsulated within a resilient foam sheath or shell. In attaching the plastic sheet to the annular frame, edge areas of the sheet are wrapped about the surface of the rubber shell so that the shell is deformed inwardly toward the frame central axis, whereby the deformed shell exerts outward force on the plastic sheet to prevent or remove wrinkling of the sheet. The display device may be suspended, as from a cord or a button on a garment of a person.

Abstract: A barrier curtain and carrier combination is shown for temporarily mounting the curtain on the edge of the wall surrounding an unobsrtructed opening in the wall of a building during a rehabilitation or construction project.

Abstract: A screen is provided for a garage door and has the same dimensions as the garage door. A Velcro.RTM. fastening system is utilized to secure the top and opposite side edges of the flexible screen means to the interior door casing so that the screen will be positively maintained in place to prevent the passage of insects, leaves, etc. into the garage. A vertically disposed double zipper is provided in the screen to permit access into the interior of the garage or exit therefrom.

Abstract: A system for providing a detachable barrier, preferably a screen barrier, on a doorway, garage opening or the like is provided. The barrier may be removably attached and adjusted to provide a custom-fit appearance.

Abstract: In a system for covering an opening in a structure, the opening having a periphery, the structure having sidewalls surrounding the opening and extending along the periphery of the opening, and the system including a frame system mountable on the sidewall so as to surround the opening, a flexible sheet for covering the opening, and connector parts for securing the sheet to the frame, the improvement wherein said connector parts comprise a plurality of button members retained by said frame so as to be movable in the direction of the periphery of the opening and to be inseparable from said frame, each button member having a button protruding from said frame; and a plurality of receptacle members each secured to the sheet and having a receptacle in the form of a pocket for securely but detachably retaining said button of a respective button member.

Abstract: A vehicle interior cover (30) for use with a vehicle (10) includes a sheet-like cover member (32), a rear securing assembly (34), and a front securing assembly (36). The front securing assembly (36) preferably includes a resiliently flexible transversely extending rod (48) which is suitably dimensioned for resilient bowing between opposed sides (26, 26') of the vehicle interior in order to releasably secure the sheet-like cover (32) to the interior (12) proximate the vehicle dashboard (16). The transversely extending rod (48) is bowed to tension the sheet-like cover (32) between the rear interior portion (14) and the dashboard portion (16) in a distended condition over the interior (12). The rear securing assembly (34) may be a transversely extending enlarged member (44) which is trapped in a transversely extending slot between structural members (22,24) of the vehicle. Both the front securing assembly (36) and rear securing assembly (34) allow fastener-free installation and deployment of cover member ( 32).

Abstract: A window screen assembly is shown which is especially useful with metallic window frames having flat, irregular or compound curved surfaces defining the window opening. The assembly is flexible and readily stored in a compact space as by rolling it up for placement in a mailing type tube. The assembly includes magnets to secure the assembly to the frame.

Abstract: An improved temporary window shade (10) that is designed to cover a window opening during the period when a person is awaiting the arrival and installation of a permanent window covering. The shade (10) consists of a non-woven, translucent material (12), having imprinted on its surface a grid (14) of vertical and horizontal lines that allows the material to be accurately and easily cut to size. The material (12) may be attached to either a window (50), a window sash (52) or to a wall (56) that surrounds a window frame (54). The attachment is made by first attaching a material attachment means, such as a two-sided adhesive tape (16), to the attachment structure. The material's upper edge (12c) is then pressed against the two-sided tape to hold the material in place. The shade (10) may bge partially raised by attaching at its lower corners a bendable strip (20).

Abstract: A bendable sheet of material includes a column of apertures and at least one loop interleaved therewith disposed along each opposed vertical side and support structure for suspending the sheet from its upper edge. A pair of clips, secured to the lower edge of the sheet, penetrably cooperate with the columns of apertures to selectively retain the sheet foldable upon itself to a predetermined degree. The pair of clips are adapted to penetrably engage the loops to retain a further fold of the folded part of the sheet to selectively further reduce the area defined by the suspended sheet.

Abstract: A covering apparatus is set forth to overlie an existing covered opening such as found in window and door environments. The apparatus includes a continuous elongate strip secured to a window or door frame opening with a companion strip receivable therein integrally secured and formed as a perimeter of a flexible transparent covering membrane for the window or door opening.

Abstract: A tensioning connector, particularly suitable for tensioning the flexible membrane of a sign. The sign membrane is tensioned with a mechanical connector having two connecting components with generally interlocking surfaces. The interlocking surfaces have interengaging, mating, linear ridges. The cross section of the ridges has a generally sawtooth configuration. Both of the surfaces of each sawtooth ridge made an acute angle with the plane of the ridge tips. Importantly, both of these surfaces are on the same side of a normal to the plane.

Abstract: A portable negative air control unit and closure structure which can be utilized therewith to form enumerable different configurations. The basic unit includes a base which can be a shower containment pool, at least one closure structure having a door therein and top and side fabric walls which are removably attached to the closure structure, such as by zippers. The unit also can be attached to additional walls to form one of several interconnected units.

Abstract: A produce rack for the display and storage of produce having a display surface and an opening allowing the produce to be viewed. Refrigerated air is provided to the produce through the display surface. Water is periodically sprayed onto the produce by an automatic watering system. A flexible cover selectively closes the opening to optimize the condition of the air inside the display area. The cover includes a plurality of transparent curtains that roll up on rollers for storage and roll down for use. Strip connectors close the gaps between adjacent curtains. Hook and loop fasteners on the edges of the curtains and connectors allow the connectors to be secured to the curtains across the gaps simply by placing the connectors across the gaps.

Abstract: A bendable sheet of material includes a column of apertures disposed along each opposed vertical side and support structure for suspending the sheet from its upper edge. A pair of clips, secured to the lower edge of the sheet, penetrably cooperate with the columns of apertures to selectively retain the sheet foldable upon itself to a predetermined degree. The pair of clips are adapted to penetrably engage a further fold of the folded part of the sheet to selectively further reduce the area defined by the suspended sheet.

Abstract: An improved screen apparatus having a fabric frame and having a Velcro strip attached to one side of such fabric frame, with the mataching Velcro strip attached to the inside of a door frame or other opening at the top and sides thereof, whereby during use the screen device functions to form an adaptable, readily convertible screened-in enclosure.

Abstract: A fire retardant separation wall for an aircraft cabin or transport space in an aircraft or in any other craft, is made portable by constructing such a separation wall as a foldable gas-tight wall made out of fire resistant material. A ring hose surrounds the entire separation wall. The ring hose has such a configuration that, when inflated, it will hug the inner contour of the aircraft cabin. The ring hose and, if used, reinforcing inflatable ribs, are inflated by a battery operated compressor so that the entire wall unit is portable and conveniently stored when deflated and folded. A pressurized gas container assures inflation even if a power failure should occur.

Abstract: A curtain with sucking disks comprising a passage through which a rubber cord is passed and which is formed only at the upper side of the curtain or at the upper and lower sides thereof or at the right and left sides as well as at the upper and lower sides thereof, the rubber cord passed through each of these passages, and sucking disks attached to both end of each of the rubber cords.

Abstract: A screen and storm window cover is provided which is readily attachable to and removable from a window frame and consists of a screen panel attached to hook fabric fastener strips on the window frame for summer conditions. A transparent plastic sheet with loop fabric fastener strips about its perimeter can interlock through the screen panel to the hook fabric fastener strips for winter conditions.

Abstract: A main panel member of translucent tinted plastic material, with mounting strips at opposite side edges of the panel member. The mounting strips are of plastic cling material, secured to the panel member by adhesive material. The cling strips adhere to a glass window by static.

Abstract: A temporary window shade is provided for use in buildings which have not yet had permanent draperies or blinds installed. The shade is made from a sheet of disposable material, the top, bottom and side edges of which have been folded to form hems. Stiffener strips are inserted in the top and bottom hems to provide rigidity. The top hem is attachable to the wall above a window. The bottom stiffener strip includes hook means which are receivable in slots formed along the side edges of the shade to hold the bottom edge of the shade in a raised configuration. Each hook means is preferably a double hook, having an upturned portion providing through one face of the shade and a downturned portion projecting through the opposite face of the shade to allow the shade to be foldced twice.

Abstract: An extruded plastic wall track for affixing fabric to a wall includes an elongated base adapted to be secured to a wall which includes a generally flat surface having first and second edges. A first shoulder extends outwardly from the first edge of the base away from the wall and a second shoulder extends outwardly from the second edge of the base away from the wall. The first shoulder includes a first lip and the second shoulder includes a panel hingedly secured thereto having a second lip adapted to lock over the first lip. The second shoulder includes a flange extending outwardly therefrom and essentially parallel to the base and spaced therefrom, the flange being adapted to support a lining material spaced from the wall.

Abstract: A multiple-ply blanket window shade having magnetic strips embedded in the vertical edges of the shade and cooperating magnetic strips on the window frame. The magnetic strips are rubber-based, each having three poles running vertically and transversely spaced nominally on 1/4" centers, that is, magnetized on a magnetizing fixture with 1/4" wide poles.

Abstract: A flexible cover for closing the opening of a refrigerated produce rack when the produce does not need to be viewed thereby optimizing the refrigerated and moisturized air conditions inside the display area. The cover includes a plurality of transparent curtains that roll up on rollers for storage and roll down for use. Strip connectors provide connections across the gaps between adjacent curtains. Fasteners of the hook and loop type allow the strip connectors to be secured to the curtains across the gaps simply by placing the connectors across the gaps.

Abstract: An insulating flexible panel adapted to be releasably joined to like panels in side by side relationship, said panel comprising enclosure means for enclosing insulating material therein, said enclosure means presenting a first border and a second border, said second border extending generally outwardly of said enclosure, and releasable fastening means associated with said first and second borders adapted to releasably fasten said first border of one panel to said second border of another panel.

Abstract: A removable screen adapted to be attached to the interior of a vehicular windshield and configured to cover and correspond thereto for inhibiting the transfer of heat, solar energy, ultraviolet radiation and the like through the windshield into the interior of the associated vehicle. The removable screen includes a flexible sheet having dimensions corresponding to the vehicular windshield which is composed of a metallized plastic film, and means for removably mounting the flexible sheet of the interior of the windshield. The flexible sheet may be composed of multiple layers of the metallized plastic film which are joined to define at least one sealed air pocket. The metallized plastic film employed is essentially impervious to the transfer of air in addition to the transfer of heat and ultraviolet energy.

Abstract: A protective device for window panes which are susceptible to scratching, particularly the window panes in folding convertible tops of vehicles. The pane is at its circumference welded into an envelope of covering material which forms a window frame. The covering material is sewed together with the window panel. During the manufacture and assembly of the convertible top, the window pane is provided with the cover of a material which is mechanically weak but soft and neutral relative to the pane material and of a foil having a high mechanical strength. The protective cover is sewed together with the window pane and the envelope of covering material. For an easy removal of the edge regions, the protective cover is provided with tooth-like or interrupted edge portions.

Abstract: A two-way animal door and frame having an outside frame and an inside frame is adapted to fit over a cut out opening in a door or a wall for allowing passage of a pet through a pliant door and border so that the pliant door and border will seal off the opening when not in use to prevent cold air and the like from entering the house. The upper ends of the pliant door and pliant U-shaped border are attached to one of the frames by a peg-and-hole securement. The two frames fit flush to their respective side of the door or wall and are secured to each other by nuts and bolts to keep both frames in place and for pushing the edges of both frames and the pliant door and border flush against the door or wall.

Abstract: An improved two-piece lock for securing polymeric sheeting for use in covering greenhouses. The lock has an elongated lower member affixed to the frame of the greenhouse and one or more layers of polymeric sheeting are held in the lock between the lower member and an upper member. The upper member has two downwardly extending bars one of which fits into a channel of the lower member and the other of which abuts a concave contact bar of the lower member which faces the channel.

Abstract: A removable lightweight cover assembly for covering a vehicle roof opening of the type defined by a vehicle roof enclosing three sides of the opening is provided by a generally U-shaped frame releasably latched to the opening and a pliable, lightweight cover releasably attachable to the frame. The frame has latching means for cooperating with fastening means of the vehicle for removably securing the frame to the vehicle roof in substantially leakproof relation, and further has cover attachment means for releasably attaching the cover thereto. The cover assembly is advantageously utilized by latching the frame into the roof opening and selectively attaching the cover to the frame by one or more attachment means whenever it is desired to cover the opening, and storing only the cover in folded or rolled condition in order to substantially uncover the roof opening.

Abstract: An apparatus for pneumatically or hydraulically tensioning a membrane, which stretched membrane can support a reflective surface for use as a heliostat in a solar energy collection system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor belt housing access port and elastic closure therefor, for use on a conveyor belt cleaner installation wherein hinges, catches, gaskets and the like are completely eliminated. The cover is retained in place by inherent tension and includes securing means which may incorporate a magnetic force, or interengaging means between the cover and a continuous rim about the opening. The securement may involve an enlargement of the rim such as a ledge, or a flange and an interengaged groove, or flange on the cover operatively related to such enlargement.

Abstract: An improved door having a door nose and a door mounting component which attach to the door panel in a manner which minimizes fastener exposure on the outer surface of the door and reduces cost of assembly.