Abstract:
An automatic closure is disclosed which is adapted to block the flow of air through a door opening. The closure comprises a pliant curtain supported by its upper edge and by a portion of one side edge. The curtain includes a pocket which contains a bracing panel supported by the flanges of a pair of mutually perpendicular split sleeves. The sleeves are secured to a rotatable post, which normally assumes a preferred rotational position corresponding to the air-blocking position of the curtain in the door opening. The curtain, which also carries weights to facilitate its movement into and out of the latter position, is readily installed on, or removed from, its supporting structure.
Abstract:
A U-shaped frame is secured to a pair of spaced fence posts, and the frame has yoke members which secure the U-frame at the top and the bottom to the fence posts. A one-way gate or turnstile is provided by rotatable members on the U-frame having turnstile arms. A means of removably securing the U-frame to the fence posts is in the form of members securing the fence posts which can be manually tightened. The entire turnstile is designed to be readily removable from the fence line or readily insertable in a fence line; if the fence posts to which it is attached are weak, the U-frame tends to strengthen them.
Abstract:
An overhead door for the vertical opening of a truck trailer comprises a plurality of panels connected together by hinges, which extend the width of the panels and are confined within the panel. The panels, which are preferably formed of plastic, are counterbalanced by a spring, which is movable with the panels. The spring is wound by gears, which are connected thereto, cooperating with racks on the horizontal portions of the tracks on which the panels are movably supported. The bottom panel is locked to the trailer body by a locking mechanism, which is carried by the lowermost panel and cooperates with locking pins on the mounting angles on which the vertical portions of the tracks are supported.
Abstract:
A gate slidable along and pivotal on a stanchion carries a roller engaging a cam surface on a cam block to close the gate and stop the gate in a closed position. The block is rotatable on the stanchion and is connected by torsion rods to a collar fixed to the stanchion.
Abstract:
Two sliding doors or window sashes are supported on tracks of two rockers longitudinally juxtaposed on the bottom member of the door or window frame and each carrying two parallel tracks, the two pairs of tracks on respective rockers being aligned when both rockers are in an opening or in a closing position, and only one track of one rocker being aligned with one track of the other rocker when the rockers are in the opening and closing position respectively, whereby the doors or window sashes may both extend in the plane of the frame to obstruct the same or be practically coextensive in the direction of their sliding movement and offset transversely of this direction.