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 new automatic garage door screen for covering a garage door opening to let air through while still providing a barrier to insects and debris. The inventive device includes a flexible panel having a plurality of apertures therethrough extending between first and second surfaces of the panel. A storage housing mountable to the top of a garage door opening is also provided. An elongate roller is rotatably mounted in the interior of the storage housing with a motor included for rotating the roller. The top edge of the panel is coupled to the roller. A pair of elongate guide tracks are mountable to the sides of a garage door opening. Each guide track has an elongate side channel extending between the ends of the guide track. One of the side edges of the panel is inserted into the side channel of one of the guide tracks while the other side edge of the panel is inserted into the side channel of the other guide track.

Abstract: An attic hatchway cover wherein a tent-like structure having side walls, a front wall, and a rear wall each having a flange structure are arranged to engage and for securement to a hatchway opening framework employing mounting strips, such that fastening structure secures each mounting strip to each associated flange and simultaneously to the framework. The top wall of the cover employs a flap member selectively securable to the top wall and displaceable therefrom by use of a generally U-shaped zipper to disengage the flap relative to the top wall.

Abstract: A garage screen enclosure for attachment to a garage door frame having a passageway which can be opened and closed using a pair of double sided zippers. The screen or portions of the screen can be wrapped around dowel rods and suspended from the garage door frame. Devices secure the zipper so that the passageway can be locked.

Abstract: A window 3 of the folding top of a convertible, which consists of a transparent flexible plastic material, on its interior side, is provided with a surrounding zipper 2 which, by means of a holding strip 4 and 5, is undetachably fastened to the interior side of a top covering 1 and to the window 3. Furthermore, it is provided on its exterior side with a U-shaped edge bordering 8 made of a rubber-elastic material which, in the installed condition of the window 3, rests sealingly against the edge of the window opening 1' of the top covering 1.

Abstract: A new golf cart enclosure has a top panel (14) with roll cover (5) attachable to a top (13) of a golf cart (4) or other vehicle or structure (32) above an area to be enclosed. Roll-up side panels (1-3 and 37) made of flexible and selectively transparent materials are attachable to the top of the golf cart (4) or structure at a position under the roll cover (5). This allows the roll-up side panels (18) to be rolled up under the roll cover (5) at select sides of the golf cart or structure to protect the transparent panels (1-3 and 37) from sun and other elements. The roll-up side panels in rolled-up condition are then held in a position under the roll cover with straps (20). The roll cover (5) can be positioned on top of the golf cart (4) or structure (32) such that the roll cover (5) has a plurality of edges at a plurality of sides of the golf cart or structure. The roll cover overhangs edges of the golf cart or structure and overlies rolled-up side panels (18) like flexible eaves.

Abstract: A vehicle top having removable panel sections wherein the panels include a resilient seal which is compressed by an overlapping flap to form a water-resistant seal between the panel and flap to protect the panel zippers. The seal further includes a concave portion which channels the outside elements away from the zippers. In this manner, the sealing arrangement helps to prevent seepage of water and other elements through the zipper into the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A cover for use with a conventional pickup truck having a tiltable tailgate upon which is mounted a conventional rigid camper enclosure of the type having a tiltable rear window panel and being accessible from the rear. The cover includes a flexible waterproof canvas sheet having a forward edge attached by a series of spaced snaps around the top and sides of the camper assembly at the rear end thereof, the sheet extending over and around the window panel and tailgate when in their rearwardly extending open positions. The sheet contains a vertically extending slit for rear access to the camper enclosure and one or more window openings. Flexible insect screens are positioned in registry with the window openings and contain cloth borders which are attached to the rear exterior surface of the sheet around the openings.

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.

Abstract: In a collapsible indoor sports mats in which a plurality of unit mats can be connected to and separated from one another by means of fasteners, the improvement wherein tapes of the fasteners having engaging teeth aligned thereon are fixed on the backs of the connecting edges of the unit mats, non-toothed portions for guiding a slider are formed by removing the engaging teeth, at the ends of extending parts extending from the unit mats, and location reference line marks are put at corresponding positions on the surface of the extending parts opposing one another, so that court lines on the unit mats to be connected are automatically matched with one another.

Abstract: A top hood for a truck comprises a hood body having an opening, a curtain secured at its leading end to the margin of the opening and coextending with the opening, and two pairs of slide fastener stringers, each pair having an inner and an outer stringer tape each carrying a fastener element row along their respective inner longitudinal edge, the inner tape being secured along the respective marginal edges of the curtain and the outer tape along the respective marginal edges of the opening. A pair of bottom end stops are applied to the respective inner longitudinal edges of the inner and outer tapes at their trailing ends. A slider is threaded onto each pair of stringers to couple and uncouple the same. The slider has a lower wing and an upper wing provided with means for holding the trailing end portion of the element row carried on the inner tape.

Abstract: A flexible transparent door is provided for attachment to the entry opening of a helicopter or other vehicle. This door has a semi-permanent attachment effected by means of Velcro or any comparable hook and pile material distributed about the outer periphery of the door and secondarily held by means of accordion rivets. Hinges are also provided at this outer periphery for insertion into a slide mount permanently affixed to the helicopter. A zipper is provided spaced from the outer periphery and in circumferential relation to a clear vinyl window provided on the door. In normal use, the zipper is actuated to open the door for ingress and egress. In emergency situations, quick removal of the door from the body of the vehicle may be effected by separation of the Velcro and accordion rivets which bind the door to the vehicle. In this manner, the entire door will pivot upon the hinge provided and an emergency exit will be available.

Abstract: Decorative object comprises a plurality of panels joined by slide fasteners. Surface ornamentation on the assembled panels may be continuous. Preferably, all of the panels are a single ply sheet of a woven fabric such as canvas. The decorative object is secured to support means.

Abstract: Screens are disclosed which are especially designed for use for the side and rear door openings of vans and like vehicles. The screens are provided at their marginal portions with fasteners of the Velcro type or snap fastener type, whereby they may be detachably secured to portions of the van adjacent the door openings, and which are provided with like fasteners or fastening means. The screens are provided centrally thereof with zippers, which may be opened to permit access of persons through the screens and into the van. The screens, when not in use, may be quickly and easily detached from the van, and folded for storage purposes.

Abstract: A window screen is provided which is especially adapted for use on vans or like vehicles, and which includes means formed as an integral part thereof, for facilitating access to the latching device usually provided on such vans for opening and closing the windows of the van whereby the window may be opened or closed without removal of the screen. The screen has a frame of special cross-section designed to facilitate attachment of screening thereto, as well as attachment of the screen to the window frame or opening.

Abstract: An attic hatchway cover wherein a tent-like structure having side walls, a front wall, and a rear wall each having a flange structure are arranged to engage and for securement to a hatchway opening framework employing mounting strips, such that fastening structure secures each mounting strip to each associated flange and simultaneously to the framework. .[.The.]. .Iadd.In a preferred embodiment, the .Iaddend.top wall of the cover employs a flap member selectively securable to the top wall and displaceable therefrom by use of a generally U-shaped zipper to disengage the flap relative to the top wall.