Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Pleating type – With slide guides
Patent
1997-06-18
1998-07-14
Purol, David M.
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Pleating type
With slide guides
16037023, E06B 906
Patent
active
057789550
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a fixing device for a pleated curtain, consisting of a left pleated curtain and a right pleated curtain, the fixing device comprising: a left shackle, attached to the moving end of the left pleated curtain and roughly shaped like the letter L, having a main part and a front part, which further has a protrusion and a T-shaped catch on the front side; a right shackle, attached to the moving end of the right pleated curtain and roughly shaped like the letter L, having a main part and a front part with a protrusion on the front side, further having an upper wing plate and a lower wing plate, which are opposite to each other and embrace a T-shaped opening, into which the T-shaped catch of the left shackle fits; and two fixing plates, each of the fixing plates roughly shaped like the letter U with a gap, into which the front part of the left shackle or the right shackle fits, the front leg having on the back side an incision, into which the protrusion of the left shackle or the right shackle fits; wherein the T-shaped catch of the left shackle is inserted in the T-shaped opening of the right shackle, when the curtain is in the unfolded state, and the front parts of the left and right shackles are inserted in the gaps of the fixing plates, when the curtain is in the folded state.
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