With Nonoutrigged Flexible Panel Patents (Class 160/50)
  • Patent number: 6796356
    Abstract: A folding shade system includes a shade having a plurality of panels secured in an end-to-end fashion and cables suspended from opposite tracks to define a first curved profile. The folding shade system further includes at least one receiver for each of the cables secured to the shade to define a cable-receiving pathway extending across the width of one of the panels. The pathway defined by the at least one receiver has a second curved profile substantially matching the first curved profile of the cable. The at least one receiver for each cable may be a continuous sleeve defined by lines of stitching in joined end portions of adjacent panels or, alternatively, may include separate receivers each secured to the shade by a connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
    Inventor: David A. Kirby
  • Patent number: 5887655
    Abstract: Wellbore operations (e.g. for milling and/or drilling) are disclosed which require a reduced number of tool trips into a wellbore to create a cut-out pocket, opening, or window in a tubular such as casing in the wellbore; and, in some aspects, to continue into a formation adjacent a main wellbore forming a lateral wellbore in communication with the main wellbore. Preferably one trip is required to complete a window or a window and the lateral wellbore. In one aspect a full gauge tool body is used so that the completed lateral wellbore is of a substantially uniform diameter along its entire length, which, in one aspect is suitable for the passage therethrough of full gauge tools, pipe, devices, and apparatuses. In one aspect a cutting system has cutting apparatus initially covered with a wearable away material which is worn away by contacting a tubular to be milled, exposing the cutting apparatus for milling and/or for drilling formation adjacent the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Weatherford/Lamb, Inc
    Inventors: David M. Haugen, William A. Blizzard, Jr., Mark W. Schnitker, Steve R. Delgado, Thurman B. Carter, John D. Roberts, Joseph D. Mills, Frederick T. Tilton, Paul J. Johantges, Charles W. Pleasants