Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Plural strip – slat – or panel type – With mounting or supporting means
Patent
1997-07-25
2000-11-21
Johnson, Blair M.
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Plural strip, slat, or panel type
With mounting or supporting means
160193, 160207, E06B 348
Patent
active
06148895&
ABSTRACT:
A storm panel for covering a building opening includes, in combination: a series of one-piece, substantially horizontal, substantially identical plate members each having two lateral edges and a main body portion, a first hinge member formed on one lateral edge of each plate member, and, a second hinge member on the opposite lateral edge of each plate member, the first and second hinge members being formed to matingly and pivotally engage the opposite hinge member on an adjacent plate member to form a hinge, the main body portion of each plate member is being joined to each of the lateral hinge edges, the main body portion of each plate member being essentially uninterrupted from the first hinge edge to the second hinge edge and substantially identical with adjacent plate members, the plate members being formed and proportioned along with the hinge members so that when the hinges are hinged to each other to form a panel, the panel is pleatable and the spacing between the plate members when the panel is pleated is dictated by the contact between adjacent hinge members, whereby the amount of space occupied by several of these plate members when pleated in the shutter closed configuration is minimized.
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Chill Pill, Inc.
Dominik Jack E.
Johnson Blair M.
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