Reversing edge for gates

• US 3,352,059 A
• Filed: 07/08/1965
• Issued: 11/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Comprehensive Manufacturing Services, L.L.C.
• Original Assignee: Louis P. Metz
• Inventors: Metz, Louis P.
• Application Number:
  US04/470,465
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• US Class Current: 49/27
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/26 between closing doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/48 by transmission of mechanical forces, e.g. rigid or movable members
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/104 for elevators

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION WITH A WALL HAVING AN OPENING AT A FIXED LOCATION AND A PANEL MOUNTED FOR MOVEMENT TRANSVERSELY WITH RESPECT TO THE OPENING, THE MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE POSITIONING OF THE PANEL COMPRISING A FLEXIBLE SHEATH MOUNTED ON A HORIZONTAL EDGE OF THE PANEL, A MOVABLE CONTROLLING CABLE HAVING AN END PORTION FIXEDLY MOUNTED WITH RESPECT TO SAID OPENING, A CONTROL MEMBER AT A FIXED LOCATION WITH RESPECT TO SAID OPENING AND HAVING A MOVABLE OPERATION PORTION, A MEMBER ACTUATING SAID MOVABLE OPERATING PORTION TO WHICH ANOTHER END PORTION OF THE CABLE IS CONNECTED, SAID CABLE HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY WITHIN SAID FLEXIBLE SHEATH AND DEFLECTABLE IN RESPONSE TO DEFORMATION OF SAID SHEATH, AND GUIDE MEMBERS FOR SAID CABLE CARRIED BY SAID PANEL WHEREBY SAID CABLE IS TRANSFERABLE WITH RESPECT TO SAID PANEL UPON MOVEMENT OF SAID PANEL.