Pet door

• US 20050284402A1
• Filed: 06/09/2005
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Innotek Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Innotek Incorporated
• Inventors: Becker, Kent
• Application Number:
  US11/150,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20050284402A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 119/484
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/32 Serving doors; Passing-through doors ; Pet-doors

Abstract

A pet door including a retracting exterior door revealing a passageway when open and an inner flexible door that covers the passageway.

Claims

1. A pet door, comprising:

a retracting exterior door revealing a passageway when open; and

an inner flexible door that covers said passageway.

2. The pet door of claim 1, further comprising a keyed entry system associated with said retracting exterior door.

3. The pet door of claim 1, wherein said retracting exterior door includes:

a plurality of slats each interconnected with at least one adjacent one of said plurality of slats; and

a rotating mechanism to accommodate the rolling of said plurality of slats thereonto and therefrom.

4. The pet door of claim 3, wherein said retracting exterior door includes a weather-proof seal.

5. The pet door of claim 3, wherein said inner flexible door includes a thermal insulation portion.

6. The pet door of claim 3, further comprising a control assembly for actuating said rotating mechanism, said control assembly receptive to a keyed transmission.

7. The pet door of claim 6, wherein said keyed transmission is at least one of an electromagnetic transmission and an optical transmission.

8. The pet door of claim 7, wherein said keyed transmission includes an identification signal.

9. A door assembly, comprising:

an exterior entryway door; and

a pet door installed in a lower portion of said exterior entryway door, said pet door including;

a retracting exterior door revealing a passageway when open; and

an inner flexible door that covers said passageway.

10. The door assembly of claim 9, further comprising a keyed entry system associated with said retracting exterior door.

11. The door assembly of claim 10, wherein said retracting exterior door includes:

a plurality of slats each interconnected with at least one adjacent one of said plurality of slats; and

a rotating mechanism to accommodate the rolling of said plurality of slats thereonto and therefrom.

12. The door assembly of claim 11, wherein said retracting exterior door includes a weather-proof seal.

13. The door assembly of claim 11, wherein said inner flexible door includes a thermal insulation portion.

14. The door assembly of claim 11, further comprising a control assembly for actuating said rotating mechanism, said control assembly receptive to a keyed transmission.

15. The door assembly of claim 14, wherein said keyed transmission is at least one of an electromagnetic transmission and an optical transmission.

16. The door assembly of claim 15, wherein said keyed transmission includes an identification signal.

17. A method of operating a pet door, comprising the steps of:

receiving an actuating signal to open a retracting exterior door;

opening said retracting exterior door, thereby revealing a passageway when open; and

keeping said passageway covered by way of an inner flexible door until a pet pushes against said inner flexible door.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said opening step includes rotating a plurality of slat members of said exterior door around a rotating mechanism.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said actuating signal is at least one of an electromagnetic transmission and an optical transmission.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said actuating signal includes an identification signal.