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Methods of deploying a cover utilizing active material and an external heat source

Patent Number: 8109318
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventors: Browne, Alan L.; Johnson, Nancy L.

Methods of deploying and stowing a cover coupled to an actuator comprising active material, includes the steps of heating the material with an external heat source, so as to cause a change in physical property and deploying the cover due to the change, and preferably includes accelerating the heating of the material by focusing the energy of the source with a lens or prism, engaging the cover with an input device and retracting the cover upon input, releasing stored energy as a result of ...

Device with shutter and element for the reinsertion of a shutter into a guide slide

Patent Number: 8109317
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Bostyn, Frederic

Device with a shutter and element for the reinsertion of a shutter into a guide slide. Device with a shutter for the closing-off of a bay (1), comprising a slide (7, 8); a deformable shutter (3) comprising a lateral flange (10, 11, 27) which is mounted slidingly in the slide; and a means for reinserting the flange into the slide, after it has been pulled out of the slide, this means comprising at least one pair of rollers (17) which are placed on either ...

Slat member and fireproof, heat-insulating slat and rolling door

Patent Number: 8109316
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Wang, Shih-Hsien

A fireproof, heat-insulating slat consists of a pair of slat members having the same structure and disposed in the opposite directions. An enclosed space is formed between the pair of slat members. A first upper shoulder and a first lower shoulder are formed on the top end of the slat from the left to the right, and a second lower shoulder and a second upper shoulder are formed on the bottom end of the slat from the left to the right. An upper hinge and a lower hinge part are formed on the ...

Accordion partition

Patent Number: 8109315
Publication Date: 2012-02-07
Inventor: Schneider, Malte

An accordion partition has a pair of panels having adjacent vertical inner and outer side edges interconnected by a hinge. Horizontal and generally parallel upper ceiling and lower floor tracks extend above and below the pair of panels, and upper and lower trolley hardware on each of the panels rides in the respective tracks so that the panels can move horizontally relative to one another. Respective latches on each of the outer edges can move between locked positions engaged in one of the ...

Method and apparatus for making an awning structure

Patent Number: 8104527
Publication Date: 2012-01-31
Inventors: Konda, Srinivas; Konda, Katherine Ruth

A method and apparatus for joining angularly oriented side planar members into an otherwise orthogonal awning frame of open ended side plane and transverse members joined by fitted right angle connectors has the angularly oriented member cut to length at end angles that provide a flush fit to the side plane members at transverse member connections and lengths of formed right angle section material, cut at the same flush fitting angles as the tubing end angle cuts, for fastening to inwardly ...

Movable partition systems including intumescent material and methods of controlling and directing intumescent material around the perimeter of a movable partition system

Patent Number: 8100164
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventors: Bell, Craig; Goodman, E. Carl

Movable partition systems include a movable partition and an intumescent material positioned to seal a gap at a periphery of the partition. In some embodiments, masses of intumescent material may be shaped and positioned to expand toward one another, contact one another, and form a seal therebetween at a periphery of the partition when the movable partition is exposed to fire. A fire barrier may be provided by extending a partition along a track assembly, and heating an intumescent material ...

Apparatus and method for controlling barrier movement

Patent Number: 8100163
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Inventor: Nicholson, Scott James

An apparatus for controlling the movement of a barrier is provided. The apparatus includes a governor with a preload member. The preload member provides a preload force that releasably and magnetically couples the preload member to the governor. The preload member is configured and arranged to provide a sufficient holding force to the governor in order to hold the barrier in place. The governor is configured and arranged to, upon the preload force being selectively decoupled from the ...

Door package

Patent Number: 8096342
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Scruggs, Edward

A door package includes a door frame, a door, a handle, and a pivot plate. The frame has a top portion that includes tracks in which door panels can slide. The door includes two or more equal size door panels. The handle protrudes in a direction essentially perpendicular to the door panels and is connected to a latch mechanism for positively engaging with a corresponding latch mechanism in the door frame when the door is in a closed position. The pivot plate is attached to the floor and ...

Actuating system and folding panel assembly

Patent Number: 8096341
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventor: Teunissen, Sander

A folding panel assembly includes at least first and second, substantially rectangular panels, the first panel having first and second vertical ends, and the second panel having third and fourth vertical ends, the second and third vertical ends being hinged to one another about a hinge axis parallel thereto. An actuating system includes a substantially horizontal track, with a first pivot support for connection to the first panel, a carriage traversable along the track, with a second pivot ...

Child safety blind

Patent Number: 8096340
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
Inventors: McCarty, Michael J.; Gutierrez, Frank A.

A child safety blind having a head rail, a bottom rail, at least one ladder tape, a plurality of slats, a tilt wand and a pair of registry clips. At least one ladder tape extends horizontally between the head rail and the bottom rail, and the ladder tape comprising a plurality of steps. The slats extend horizontally between the head rail and the bottom rail, and each of the slats extends through one corresponding step of the ladder tape. The tilt wand is linked with ladder tape and ...