US Patent Class 160
FLEXIBLE OR PORTABLE CLOSURE, PARTITION, OR PANEL



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  DF  CLASS NOTES
1  DF  AUTOMATIC CONTROL
2  DF  .~ Nonthermal automatic initiator
3  DF  .~.~ Force initiated
4  DF  .~.~.~ Weight
5  DF  .~.~ Weather and/or light initiated
6  DF  .~ Nonfusible thermal initiator
7  DF  .~ With starting or driving means
8  DF  .~ With retarding means
9  DF  .~ With releasing means for operator and/or counterbalance
10  DF  WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, OR SIGN
11  DF  WITH WIPER OR CLEANER
12  DF  WITH INSECT EXITS
13  DF  .~ Applied to slidably interconnected frames or panels
14  DF  .~ Zigzag or crimped surface
15  DF  .~ Spaced or overlapping sections
16  DF  .~ Conical, prismatic or other protuberances
17  DF  .~ Bar, grooved or apertured
19  DF  WITH HOOD, CANOPY, SHIELD STORAGE CHAMBER, OR OUTRIGGED RIGID PANEL
20  DF  .~ Outrigged rigid panel, with flexible panel sides
21  DF  .~ Changeable size
22  DF  .~ For outrigged flexible panels (i.e., awnings)
23.1  DF  .~ For roll type
24  DF  .~.~ Portable
25  DF  .~.~ With plural flexible or portable panels
26  DF  .~.~ Casement housed roll
27  DF  .~.~.~ Fabric free edge connected to movable closure
28  DF  .~.~ Fabric free edge connected to movable closure
29  DF  .~.~ Movable hood, canopy, shield, storage chamber, or outrigged rigid panel
30  DF  .~.~.~ Mounted upon movable closure
31  DF  .~.~ Combined with frame or demountable side guides
32  DF  .~ For plural strip, slat, or panel and/or pleating type
33  DF  .~.~ Casement housed
34  DF  .~.~ Venetian blind and/or collapsing
35  DF  .~.~ Pleating or edge hinged gathering type
36  DF  .~.~ Edge hinged, slidably mounted
37  DF  .~ Slidable into storage chamber
38  DF  .~ Structure
39  DF  .~.~ Extensible
40  DF  WITH FILLER AND FILLER TYPE
41  DF  .~ For roll type
42  DF  .~.~ Between outrigged roll type
43  DF  .~ Between parallel plane, relatively slidable panels
44  DF  WITH LIQUID SUPPLYING AND/OR DRAINING MEANS
45  DF  WITH OUTRIGGERS (I.E., AWNINGS)
46  DF  .~ Floor or ground engaging outrigger
47  DF  .~ With groove engaging mounting means
48  DF  .~ With rigid closure
49  DF  .~.~ Movable rigid closure related
50  DF  .~ With nonoutrigged flexible panel
51  DF  .~.~ Convertible
52  DF  .~.~ With nonoutrigged roll type
53  DF  .~ Umbrella type
54  DF  .~ Plural outrigged type
55  DF  .~.~ One roll type
56  DF  .~ Nonplanar fabric arrangements
57  DF  .~.~ Planar surface, with sides
58.1  DF  .~.~.~ Sides foldable, rollable, or collapsible
59  DF  .~ Multi-positional
60  DF  .~ Convertible
61  DF  .~ Plural strip, slat, or panel type
62  DF  .~.~ Telescopic and/or collapsible
63  DF  .~ With fabric having diverse areas
64  DF  .~ Adjustable size
65  DF  .~ With braced outrigger
66  DF  .~ Roll type
67  DF  .~.~ Shiftable position roll
68  DF  .~.~ Fabric free edge connected operator
69  DF  .~.~ Multi-part outrigger
70  DF  .~.~.~ Two part, intermediate pivot
71  DF  .~.~.~ Telescopic
72  DF  .~.~ Swinging outriggers
73  DF  .~.~.~ With pivotal motion preventing means
74  DF  .~.~.~ Sliding pivot
75  DF  .~.~ Sliding outriggers
76  DF  .~ With fabric frame
77  DF  .~.~ Pivoted
78  DF  .~ Multi-part outrigger
79  DF  .~.~ Two part, intermediate pivot
80  DF  .~.~ Telescopic
81  DF  .~ Swinging
82  DF  .~.~ With sliding pivot
83.1  DF  .~ Rigid or nonmovable
84.01  DF  PLEATING TYPE
84.02  DF  .~ With power operating means
84.03  DF  .~ Multiple section unit
84.04  DF  .~ With preformed pleats
84.05  DF  .~.~ Honeycomb type
84.06  DF  .~ With slide guides
84.07  DF  .~ Fan type (e.g., for arched windows)
84.08  DF  .~ Plural panel type
84.09  DF  .~ Lazy-tong links pivot about axes transverse to panel
84.11  DF  .~ Lazy-tong links pivot about axes parallel to panel
85  DF  PLURAL RUN TYPE
86  DF  .~ Endless
87  DF  PLURAL AND/OR WITH RIGID CLOSURE
88  DF  .~ Nonplanar, nonparallel arrangement
89  DF  .~ Diverse types
90  DF  .~.~ With rigid closure
91  DF  .~.~.~ Diverse rigid closures
92  DF  .~.~.~ Swinging rigid closures
93  DF  .~.~.~.~ Intermediate axis
94  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With opposite, parallel, offset flexible panels
95  DF  .~.~.~.~ Flexible or portable panel related to rigid closure operating or fastening means
96  DF  .~.~.~.~ Facing flexible or portable panel and mounted for optional or conjoint movement
97  DF  .~.~.~.~ Flexible or portable panel complementary to form complete closure
98  DF  .~.~.~ Roll type flexible panel
99  DF  .~.~.~.~ Connected to slidable rigid closure
100  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Fabric free edge connected closure
101  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible panel between slidable parallel plane rigid closures
102  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible panel connected to and moved by slidable rigid closure
103  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible or portable panel related to rigid closure operating or fastening means
104  DF  .~.~.~ Grille or shutter type
105  DF  .~.~.~ Flexible panel removably mounted in slidable rigid closure guides
106  DF  .~.~.~ Removably mounted over fabric in frame
107  DF  .~.~.~ Plural strip, slat, or panel type
108  DF  .~.~ Roll and hanging or drape type only
109  DF  .~.~.~ Shiftable position
110  DF  .~.~.~.~ With extensible pole, roller, bar, or support therefor
111  DF  .~.~.~.~ Vertically slidable
112  DF  .~.~.~ With extensible pole, roller, bar, or support therefor
113  DF  .~ Plural strip, slat, or panel assemblies
114  DF  .~.~ Nonplanar
115  DF  .~.~ Multiple section unit
116  DF  .~.~.~ One closing passage through another
117  DF  .~.~ Mounted on opposite sides of single opening
118  DF  .~.~.~ Track guided
119  DF  .~.~ Mounted on opposite sides of single support
120  DF  .~ Roll type
121.1  DF  .~.~ Single roll
122  DF  .~.~ Differently directed fabrics
123  DF  .~ Hanging or draped type
124  DF  .~.~ Side-by-side arranged, on single pole or track
125  DF  .~.~ Shiftable pole
126  DF  .~.~ Laterally overlapping fabrics and/or co-elevational parallel tracks
127  DF  COMBINED
128  DF  CONVERTIBLE
129  DF  .~ Plural movably interconnected strip, slat, or panel type
130  DF  PLURAL STRIP, SLAT, OR PANEL TYPE
131  DF  .~ Longitudinally crooked strip, slat, or panel
132  DF  .~.~ Bow or U-shape, pivoted together at ends
133  DF  .~ Roll type
134  DF  .~ Fan type
135  DF  .~ Portable
136  DF  .~ Parallelogram type
137  DF  .~.~ Plural differently movable parallelogram section with a common side
138  DF  .~.~ With operator
139  DF  .~.~.~ Unit collapsing only
140  DF  .~.~.~.~ Diverse types of operators
141  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ One operator a spring
142  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ One operator a weight
143  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Weighted parallelogram element extension
144  DF  .~.~.~.~ Spring
145  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ In brace
146  DF  .~.~.~.~ Weight
147  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Strand carried
148  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Weighted parallelogram element extension
149  DF  .~.~.~.~ With gearing
150  DF  .~.~.~.~ With strand and pulley
151  DF  .~.~.~.~ Unit carried operator
152  DF  .~.~ With means to hold unit in partially collapsed or collapsed position
153  DF  .~.~.~ Combined tension and compression means
154  DF  .~.~.~ Pivoted compression bar
155  DF  .~.~.~.~ Friction catch
156  DF  .~.~.~ Tension members
157  DF  .~.~.~.~ Flexible member foreshortened at end
158  DF  .~.~.~.~ Friction catch
159  DF  .~.~ Unit collapsing on guides
160  DF  .~.~ Unit pivoted to support
161  DF  .~.~ Unit structures
162  DF  .~.~.~ With additional set of plural strips, slats or panels
163  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural diverse additional sets
164  DF  .~.~.~.~ Additional set composed of interconnected strips, slats or panels
165  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pivots parallel to unit plane
166.1  DF  .~ Venetian blind type
167  DF  .~.~ Changeable position assemblies
168.1  DF  .~.~ With accumulating means
169  DF  .~.~.~ Accumulated at stationary end
170  DF  .~.~.~ Drum or roller wound strand
171  DF  .~.~.~.~ Axially traversed drum or roller
172  DF  .~.~.~ With side guides
173  DF  .~.~.~ Units and subcombinations thereof
174  DF  .~.~ Adjustable strip, slat, or panel angle
175  DF  .~.~.~ With latch or detent
176.1  DF  .~.~.~ With angle adjusting means
177  DF  .~.~.~ Units and subcombinations thereof
178.1  DF  .~.~ Subcombination or structure thereof
178.2  DF  .~.~.~ Cord lock
178.3  DF  .~.~.~ Slat support (e.g., tape ladder)
179  DF  .~ Plural fabrics in a single frame
180  DF  .~ One closing opening in another
181  DF  .~ With mounting or supporting means
182  DF  .~.~ Removable frame-type support
183  DF  .~.~ Nonplanar nonparallel arrangement on support
184  DF  .~.~ Strip, slat, or panel not interconnected for relative motion
185  DF  .~.~ Strip, slat, or panel interconnected for diverse relative motions
186  DF  .~.~ Arranged to provide plural passageways on opening
187  DF  .~.~.~ Strip, slat, or panel pivotally interconnected
188  DF  .~.~ With operating means
189  DF  .~.~.~ Counterbalance and additional operator
190  DF  .~.~.~ Counterbalance only
191  DF  .~.~.~.~ Spring
192  DF  .~.~.~ Spring
193  DF  .~.~.~ Strand
194  DF  .~.~ Movably mounted track
195  DF  .~.~.~ Pivotally mounted
196.1  DF  .~.~ Unit hung from horizontal track
197  DF  .~.~.~ Strips, slats, or panels slidably interconnected
198  DF  .~.~.~ Track parallel to axis of interconnection pivots
199  DF  .~.~.~ Strip, slat, or panel constrained for pivotal folding
200  DF  .~.~.~ With independently movable strip, slat, or panel
201  DF  .~.~ Track guided
202  DF  .~.~.~ Strips, slats, or panels slidably interconnected
203  DF  .~.~.~ Unit pivoted to support, pivot displaced from unit plane
204  DF  .~.~.~ Track parallel to interconnection pivot axis
205  DF  .~.~.~ With independently movably strip, slat, or panel
206  DF  .~.~.~ Strip, slat, or panel constrained for pivotal folding
207  DF  .~.~.~.~ Vertical track
208  DF  .~.~.~ A single strip, slat, or panel connected to track
209  DF  .~.~.~ With means to force against mount or support
210  DF  .~.~ Pivotally mounted unit
211  DF  .~.~.~ Strips, slats, or panels slidably interconnected
212  DF  .~.~.~ Support pivot at angle to interconnection pivot axis
213  DF  .~.~.~ Constrained for pivotal folding
214  DF  .~.~ Slidably mounted unit
215  DF  .~.~ Removable unit
216  DF  .~.~.~ Strip, slat, or panel slidably interconnected
217  DF  .~.~.~ Pivotal interconnection necessary to removal and insertion
218  DF  .~ Movably interconnected
219  DF  .~.~ Unit having diverse areas
220  DF  .~.~ Interconnected for plural relative motions
221  DF  .~.~.~ Doubly extensible by sliding only
222  DF  .~.~ Slidably interconnected
223  DF  .~.~.~ Plural individually interconnected strips, slats, or panels
224  DF  .~.~.~ With operator and/or anti-friction means
225  DF  .~.~.~ With relative slidable motion preventing means
226  DF  .~.~.~ Embracing type
227  DF  .~.~.~.~ Integral embracing means
228  DF  .~.~.~ Tongue, bead, bolt, or dog into groove or slot
229.1  DF  .~.~ Edge-to-edge interconnected
230  DF  .~.~.~ Single covering fabric
231.1  DF  .~.~.~ Interconnected by strand, fabric, rubber, or plastic
231.2  DF  .~.~.~.~ Interconnected by rubber or plastic
232  DF  .~.~.~ Hollow, filled, or covered elements
233  DF  .~.~.~ With relative pivotal motion preventing means
234  DF  .~.~.~.~ Acting to keep unit planar only
235  DF  .~.~.~ By curled or bent side edges
236  DF  .~ Strip or slat structure
237  DF  WITH FABRIC HAVING DIVERSE AREAS
238  DF  ROLL TYPE
239  DF  .~ Framed
240  DF  .~.~ Adjustable size frame
241  DF  .~ Plural roll
242  DF  .~ Shiftable position roll
243  DF  .~.~ Roll translated for winding or unwinding operation only
244  DF  .~.~.~ Fabric free edge adjustable
245  DF  .~.~.~ Spring roller
246  DF  .~.~ Straight line non-axial translation in fabric plane only
247  DF  .~.~.~ Center operated, roll support
248  DF  .~.~.~ Rack and pinion operated
249  DF  .~.~.~ One side, nonstrand operated
250  DF  .~.~.~ Extensible roller and/or roll support
251  DF  .~.~.~ Step-by-step
252  DF  .~.~.~ Strand shifted
253  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pulley or drum lift on roller
254  DF  .~.~.~.~ Winding drum
255  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With roll guide
256  DF  .~.~.~.~ Roll intermediate guides for translating strands
257  DF  .~.~.~.~ With position holding means
258  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Strand holder
259  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Roll guided
260  DF  .~.~.~.~ Roll guided
261  DF  .~.~.~ With elevator rod
262  DF  .~ Crooked roll, noncylindrical flexible roller
263  DF  .~ Adjustable dimension roll
264  DF  .~ With fabric reinforcements
265  DF  .~ With fabric free edge connected operator
266  DF  .~ With guides or fabric edge holders
267.1  DF  .~.~ Fabric side edge and stick
268.1  DF  .~.~ Fabric side edge
269  DF  .~.~.~ Clamping
270  DF  .~.~.~ Slot or channel type
271  DF  .~.~.~.~ Fabric receiving
272  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Guide mounted in a channel
273.1  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With interlock between fabric and guide
274  DF  .~.~ Stick guided only
275  DF  .~.~.~ With positive stop or detent
276  DF  .~.~.~.~ Reciprocable detent
277  DF  .~.~.~ Guides of bar or strand form
278  DF  .~.~.~.~ With release mechanism
279  DF  .~.~.~.~ Guide strand axially through or into stick
280  DF  .~.~.~ Leading edge holders movable axially of stick
281  DF  .~.~.~.~ With release mechanism
282  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With guide engaging rollers and friction elements
283  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And roll brake
284  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With guide engaging rollers
285  DF  .~.~.~.~ With guide engaging rollers and friction elements
286  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And roll brake
287  DF  .~.~.~.~ With guide engaging rollers
288  DF  .~.~.~.~ With axially acting friction elements
289  DF  .~.~.~ With friction elements
290.1  DF  .~ With fabric leading edge fastening means
291  DF  .~ With brake or stop
292  DF  .~.~ Plural
293.1  DF  .~.~ Limit of travel
294  DF  .~.~.~ For spring operated roller
295  DF  .~.~.~.~ Screw operated brake or stop
296  DF  .~.~ Speed limiting
297  DF  .~.~ Ball or roller, form brake or stop
298  DF  .~.~ Friction
299  DF  .~.~.~ For spring operated roller
300  DF  .~.~ Pawl or detent
301  DF  .~.~.~ For spring operated roller
302  DF  .~.~.~.~ Spring urged pawl or detent
303  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pawl or detent mounted off the roller
304.1  DF  .~.~.~.~ Sliding pawl or detent
305  DF  .~.~ For spring operated roller
306  DF  .~.~.~ With means to prevent uncoiling of spring on removal from support
307  DF  .~.~ For strand operated roll
308  DF  .~.~.~ Strand operated brake or stop
309  DF  .~ With rotating means
310  DF  .~.~ Electric operation or control
311  DF  .~.~ Motor or fluid pressure control
312  DF  .~.~ Plural, diverse
313  DF  .~.~ Spring
314  DF  .~.~.~ External of roll
315  DF  .~.~.~ With winding or tensioning means
316  DF  .~.~.~ Nested helical springs
317  DF  .~.~.~ Plural
318  DF  .~.~.~ With spring anchor
319  DF  .~.~ Strand
320  DF  .~.~.~ With weight or handgrip
321  DF  .~.~.~ Endless
322  DF  .~.~.~ With compensating and shock absorbing spring
323.1  DF  .~ With supporting or journaling means or with roller end structure
324  DF  .~.~ With pintle clamping or holding means
325  DF  .~.~ With pintle journaled in rolled
326  DF  .~.~ With roller gudgeons
327  DF  NONFRAMED PLURAL EDGED HELD FABRIC
328  DF  .~ With fabric stretching means
329  DF  .~.~ Resilient stretching means
330  DF  HANGING OR DRAPE TYPE
331  DF  .~ Motor operating means or electric or fluid pressure control
332  DF  .~ Chain, cable, and/or strand type
333  DF  .~ Shiftable position pole
334  DF  .~.~ Plural motions
335  DF  .~.~ Swingable
336  DF  .~.~.~ Vertical swing
337  DF  .~.~.~ With pole operating means
338  DF  .~.~ Vertically shiftable
339  DF  .~.~.~ With strand operator
340  DF  .~ With fabric operating means
341  DF  .~.~ Laterally gathered fabric
342  DF  .~.~.~ Lazy tongs
343  DF  .~.~.~ Spring or screw
344  DF  .~.~.~ Strand
345  DF  .~.~.~.~ Hollow or slotted track
346  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With anti-friction means
347  DF  .~.~.~.~ With anti-friction means
348  DF  .~ With pleating means
349.1  DF  .~ With bottom or intermediate holding, weighting, or draping means
349.2  DF  .~.~ Intermediate holding means
350  DF  .~ Portable
351  DF  PORTABLE
352  DF  NONPLANAR (E.G., THREE DIMENSION)
353  DF  WITH PLURAL FRAMES
354  DF  WITH NONRIGID FRAME OR BORDER ELEMENTS
368.1  DF  WITH MOUNTING, FASTENING, OR SUPPORTING MEANS
368.2  DF  .~ Shiftable support for overlooking shield; e.g., pillow sham type
369  DF  .~ For framed type
370  DF  .~ With guide for strand
370.1  DF  .~ Grain car type temporary closure
370.21  DF  .~ Automobile windshield weather protector or sunshield
370.22  DF  .~.~ Roll type
370.23  DF  .~.~ Pleating type
371  DF  FRAMED TYPE
372  DF  .~ Adjustable frame size
373  DF  .~.~ With excess or extensible fabric
374  DF  .~.~ Double extensible
374.1  DF  .~.~.~ Expandable at corner joint (e.g., artists's canvas stretcher frame)
375  DF  .~.~ Shiftable edge bar section only
376  DF  .~.~.~ With spring thrust
377  DF  .~ Collapsible or knockdown
378  DF  .~ Fabric stretching
379  DF  .~ With intermediate reinforcing bars, members, or braces
380  DF  .~ Two superimposed frame elements, fabric clamping
381  DF  .~ With corner structure
382  DF  FABRIC FASTENING MEANS
383  DF  .~ To elongated element
384  DF  .~.~ Additional things fastened
385  DF  .~.~ With modified fabric
386  DF  .~.~.~ Plural layers in panel portion
387  DF  .~.~.~ With fabric hem
388  DF  .~.~.~ With loops
389  DF  .~.~.~ With strips or strands
390  DF  .~.~.~ With fabric openings or pockets
391  DF  .~.~ Longitudinally divided or with fabric receiving externally exposed channel or groove
392  DF  .~.~.~ Internal fastener larger than groove or channel fabric exit
393  DF  .~.~.~.~ With end cap and/or sleeve
394  DF  .~.~.~.~ Sheet material elongated element
395  DF  .~.~.~ Elongated fastener in channel or groove
396  DF  .~.~.~.~ With end cap and/or sleeve
397  DF  .~.~.~.~ Sheet material elongated element
398  DF  .~.~.~ With pointed, piercing, and/or hook elements
399  DF  .~.~.~ Externally applied clamp, clasp, sleeve, or end cap
400  DF  .~.~ Sheet or strand
401  DF  .~.~ By sleeve and/or end cap
402  DF  .~.~ By externally applied clamp or clasp
403  DF  .~.~ By elongated fastener
404  DF  .~.~ By pointed, piercing, and/or hook elements
405  DF  MISCELLANEOUS AND PROCESSES OF USING
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900  DF  VERTICAL TYPE VENETIAN BLIND
901  DF  LAZY-TONG CONNECTED PLURAL STRIPS, SLATS, OR PANELS
902  DF  VENETIAN BLIND TYPE BRACKET MEANS
903  DF  ROLL TYPE BRACKET MEANS
904  DF  ELECTRIC OR PNEUMATIC AWNING OPERATOR
905  DF  LAZY-TONG-LINK AWNING OPERATOR
906  DF  SCREW-THREADED AWNING OPERATOR
907  DF  SPRING (OTHER THAN SPRING ROLLER) AWNING OPERATOR
908  DF  STRAND AWNING OPERATOR
909  DF  .~ Endless strand
910  DF  .~ Drum wound strand
911  DF  WORM GEAR AWNING OPERATOR
912  DF  RACK-AND-PINION AWNING OPERATOR
913  DF  GEAR AWNING OPERATOR
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DIGESTS
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DIG 1  DD  Auto radiator screens
DIG 2  DD  Auto screens and miscellaneous
DIG 3  DD  Auto visors and glare shields
DIG 4  DD  Auto side awnings
DIG 5  DD  Awning head and front bars
DIG 6  DD  Bath curtains
DIG 7  DD  Fabric
DIG 8  DD  Flexible door
DIG 9  DD  Fireplace screen
DIG 10  DD  Roll screen
DIG 11  DD  Roll screen idler roll
DIG 12  DD  Overlapping, on windows
DIG 13  DD  Suction cup
DIG 14  DD  Step joints
DIG 15  DD  Web-to-tube fasteners
DIG 16  DD  Magnetic
DIG 17  DD  Venetian blinds, motor driven
DIG 18  DD  Zipper
DIG 19  DD  Storm sash