With Modified Fabric Patents (Class 160/385)
  • Patent number: 11073744
    Abstract: The portable backdrop for filming and photography is configured for use in filming and photography. The portable backdrop for filming and photography is an opaque structure that forms a blind used to control the image captured by a camera. The portable backdrop for filming and photography comprises a roller clutch and spring system, one or more interchangeable blinds, a fastening structure, and a suspension structure. The fastening structure attach an interchangeable blind selected from the one or more interchangeable blinds to the roller clutch and spring system. The roller clutch and spring system deploys the selected interchangeable blind during a photographic or film session. The roller clutch and spring system retracts the selected interchangeable blind onto a scroll for storage. The suspension structure suspends the roller clutch and spring system and the selected interchangeable blind from an anchor point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Daniel Wilson
  • Patent number: 10029543
    Abstract: A vehicle sun visor including: a sun visor main body that is formed in a substantially rectangular plate shape that extends in a vehicle transverse direction, the sun visor main body having one long-side edge portion that is pivotably supported at a front portion of a ceiling inside a vehicle cabin, and the sun visor main body being set in a storage position along the ceiling as a result of another long-side edge portion being pivoted towards a vehicle body rear side; and a protruding portion that is formed on a bottom surface of the sun visor main body in a case in which the sun visor main body has been set in the storage position, and that protrudes towards a vehicle bottom side when seen in a side view from the vehicle transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinobu Egusa
  • Patent number: 9700141
    Abstract: Support equipment for supporting a person at rest includes a rigid supporting frame and at least one supporting element, to support the weight of the person resting on the support equipment. The frame has a tubular structure provided with a slot along at least part of its longitudinal extension, which has at least one portion with a width greater than the width of the remaining portions of slot, and the supporting element has the shape of a strip folded over itself at its ends, with the folded portions forming a loop inside which there is housed a pin having a central portion and two end portions of different thickness. The end portions of the pin have at least one dimension greater than the maximum dimension of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: EMU GROUP S.P.A.
    Inventor: Fabrizio Orlandoni
  • Patent number: 6698123
    Abstract: A mounting for a sheet to the side of a truck or the like includes attachment members forming a rectangle frame. Certain of the attachment members include frame members including mutually parallel multiple engagement surfaces defined on ribs. An elongate retainer, which cooperates with the frame members, is RF welded to the sides of the sheet. The retainer includes an elongate flange with an interlocking surface selectively interlocking with any one of the engagement surfaces on the frame. Both the frame member and the elongate retainer include rails. A tool including pinch rollers squeeze the rails toward one another to tension and mount the sheet. The sheet mounting for a roll-up door further includes rollers extending above the top of the door which are spring mounted. The sheet extends from the lower front of the roll-up door up over the rollers and is attached to the back side of an upper elongate panel of the roll-up door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Marvin A. Smith
  • Patent number: 6314687
    Abstract: A wall panel including a rectangular frame, a pair of wall members and a thin decorative sheet covering the wall members. The frame includes two spaced apart, generally parallel vertical frame members and spaced apart, generally parallel horizontal lower and upper frame members. The horizontal frame members are connected to the vertical frame members at opposite ends thereof to form the rectangular frame. Each of the frame members includes a core member and a pair of sidewall members attached to opposite sides of the core member. The wall members are attached to the sidewalls on opposing sides of the frame members. A decorative sheet covers the outer surface of each wall member. A method for manufacturing the frame members includes providing a fixture with spaced apart first, second and third surfaces. A hanger bracket is mounted to the vertical frame core member and is positioned in the fixture such that the hanger bracket engages the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Inventors: Gerald Schondelmayer, Richard Weise
  • Patent number: 5657808
    Abstract: A curtain assembly includes an elongated horizontal holding frame, a pair of spaced-apart hanging units, a curtain sheet, and an elongated horizontal plastic strip. The holding frame has an upper portion with a dovetail groove formed along the entire length thereof, and a hollow lower portion which is integrally formed with the upper portion and which has a bottom wall unit through which a slit is formed along the entire length of the frame. The hanging units are sleeved respectively around the holding frame and are adapted to be mounted on a wall so as to suspend the holding frame above a window that is formed through the wall. Each of the hanging units has a dovetail tongue engaged slidably in the groove of the holding frame. The sheet extends through the slit of the frame and has a folded annular upper end portion accommodated in the lower portion of the holding frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Inventor: Kent Lin
  • Patent number: 4928743
    Abstract: A kit for constructing a raisable soft curtain mounted on a single conventional U-shaped curtain rod including a plurality of tough mesh loops which can hook onto the horn of a conventional U-shaped curtain rod's wall bracket. The loops have master rings or guides for pull cords. The kit also includes means for vertically mounting a series of cord guides or rings to a sheet of curtain fabric. Further included is a replacement combination rod mounting bracket and manually releasable cord latch or lock mechanism. Sufficient cord is also provided for running from the bottommost ring in each vertical series of rings, through that series of rings and through the master ring to the latch or lock mechanism and down one side of the installed curtain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Inventor: Pamela Wojtysiak
  • Patent number: 4373570
    Abstract: A portable fabric display booth assembly for placement on standards and posts delineating booths for exhibition purposes. Zippered sleeves are placed over the standards and posts and fabric sheet material having edges provided with complementary zippers are zipped to each adjacent sleeve, respectively in order to at least partially enclose an area for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Nussdorf, John C. McMillan