| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 052473000 | LOUVERED PANEL | 13 |
| 20080245015 | Bahama-Style Shutter with Improved Strength and Fabricability - A Bahama-style storm shutter design with improved impact resistance includes shutter blades which span the width of the shutter, supported at each end by an end cap locked within side rails and supported in the middle by a center mullion having slots machined to approximately matching the blade cross section. The storm shutter design eliminates the need for extra structure to attach shutter blades to the side rails, thereby eliminating cost and fabrication complexity. The pass-through center mullion provides structural support to the shutter blades, enabling the use of full width shutter blades and eliminating center blade attachment structure. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090139173 | Wlikins shutter assembly - A shutter system is disclosed which is unitized in a single rectangular frame or bracket with a window or door for use in a building opening that includes a plurality of shutter plates that can be folded and unfolded, each of the shutter plates having a hinged joint with adjoining shutter plates. The shutter assembly shields an enclosure from environmental elements. The rectangular bracket has guide members with tracks for guiding the shutter plates using extensions with rollers from each of the hinged joints to cooperate with the guide members. In one embodiment, the moveable flat plats slides behind the stationary flat plats. In another embodiment, the moveable flat plats are collected at one side of the rectangular frame providing maximum opening of the enclosure. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090235602 | Strengthened shutter system - An improved shutter system for covering an opening in a wall of a building provides a barrier assembly that reduces likelihood of slat dislodgement. The shutter system includes a mounting assembly having at least one pair of guide tracks, and a barrier assembly having a plurality of interlocking flexible slats and at least one slat retention plug. The slat retention plug is retainingly engaged to an end of one of the slats of the barrier assembly by at least one retention tab in a wall of one of the slats. The slat retention plug is adapted to be slidingly engaged within one of guide channels of inner surfaces of the guide tracks. The slat retention plug defines a shoulder engaging at least one stop member of at least one of inner surfaces of the guide tracks upon deflection of the slats. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090241454 | OUTDOOR ENCLOSURE LOUVER SYSTEM - A louvered door assembly for an outdoor electronic enclosure includes an outer panel attached to an inner panel. Channels for holding louvers are attached to both panels. Each channel has slots formed therein which receive the individual louvers and hold them in position without fasteners. The inner panel holds the louvers in the slots. The louvered door assembly provides a clean look, a compact arrangement, large air flow and resists water ingress into the enclosure. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090293399 | Metal bahama style storm shutter - A metal shutter with improved air and light transmission is provided. The shutter comprises a metal top, a metal bottom, and two metal sides, which can be collectively assembled into a frame. The frame can have a metal support column that can be affixed to the top and bottom. A number of metal slats can be affixed between the sides of the shutter, and can either pass through the center column or can be affixed to the center column. A hinge can be affixed to the top of the frame, and can also be affixed to a structure. The top, bottom, sides, support column, slats, hinge, and a lock all comprise the shutter. The hinge allows the shutter to rotate between a first, substantially vertical, position, and a second, non-vertical position. The lock holds the shutter to a structure when the shutter is in the first position. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090293400 | SHUTTER FOR COVERING NON-RECTANGULAR ARCHITECTURAL OPENINGS - A shutter for use in coverings for architectural openings having non-conventional geometries provides closure in both the room side up and room side down directions. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100058698 | DECORATIVE PLASTIC BATTEN SHUTTER - A decorative shutter assembly including a plurality of main slats arranged in side-by-side relation, end pieces positioned at each end of the main slats and each including laterally spaced tongues spaced and sized to fit in their respective open ends of the main slats at a respective end of the main slats, and cross slat structures positioned in overlying relationship to seams formed between inboard ends of the end pieces and the respective ends of the main slats. The cross slat structures are removably secured to the end pieces and to the main slats so that, following delivery of the shutter assembly to a building site, the cross slat structures may be removed, the end pieces and main slats may be secured to a building surface utilizing fastener members, and the cross slats may be repositioned over the fastener members to conceal the fastener members. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100107538 | Arch shutter - An arch shutter having a frame with an arch frame portion, and often with a linear lower frame portion, and louvres extending from side to side of the arch portion, parallel to the linear lower frame portion, and having a frame section of predetermined width, and bevel portions formed at each end of each louvre, the bevel portions removing a portion at each end of each louvre for providing clearance for rotation of each louvre without interfering with arch frame portion, and pivot pins inserted through drillings in the frame from the exterior. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100154340 | LOUVERED SHUTTER - A modular louvered shutter includes first and second stiles and a center section assembled using a tongue and groove joint. The center section is a solid piece have a plurality of rails and louvers cut into the center section. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100257804 | Frameless shutter - A frameless shutter has a shutter panel having stiles and spreaders that accommodate louvers that rotate so as to open and close the shutter panel. An installation plate is mounted within a window opening. A concealable hinge has a shutter mount fixedly attached to the shutter panel back side and a plate mount fixedly attached to the installation plate. The shutter mount and the plate mount removably attach to mount the shutter panel over the window opening. A window frame is mounted to a wall having the window opening so as to surround and decorate the shutter panel. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110041440 | Shutter with side pull bar - A shutter having a rectangular frame, and louvres, and with a side pull bar located along one edge of the frame and connected to the adjacent ends of the louvres, the louvres being pivotally mounted in the frame in parallel relation to one another, and being rotatable between open and closed positions, and having a pull bar having a plurality of hinge assemblies, a hinge sleeve member at one end on each louvre, each respective hinge assemblies being engaged with a respective sleeve member, and an anti rotation formation on each sleeve member engaging the interior of its respective louvre so as to to retain said sleeve member in its respective louvre. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20140137500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COVER FOR ENCLOSURE AND ENCLOSURE HAVING COVER - A cover for an enclosure includes a first louver panel having one or more first louvers. Also included is a second louver panel attached to the first louver panel and having one or more second louvers. The second louver panel having the one or more second louvers overlaps at least one of the one or more first louvers of the first louver panel. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20160115688 | SEALING LOUVERS FOR ROOF STRUCTURES - Louvered roof systems are provided with one or more louvers. Such louvers can be combined in an assembly that is movable between an open condition and a closed condition. In the closed condition, louvers in the assembly engage one another. In such engagement, a leg extending generally transversely from one louver may include a wing that extends generally transversely to the leg and that abuts a surface of an adjacent louver. Additionally or alternatively, in such engagement, a leg extending transversely from one louver may be received in a notch in an adjacent louver. | 04-28-2016 |
