Jack Randolph Roten

Address:

523 Eucalyptus Dr, El Segundo, CA 90245

VIN:

JKALXSA147DA51089

Make:

CHRYSLER

Model:

CONQUEST 2DR LIFTBACK

Year:

2007

US Patent:

20100088961, Apr 15, 2010

Filed:

Oct 15, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/288126

Inventors:

Jack Roten - Park City UT, US

International Classification:

E05D 15/22
E06B 3/50
E05D 5/02

US Classification:

49209, 49506, 16387

Abstract:

The present invention is directed generically to a closure for a portal within a structure, and more specifically, to a closure such as a sectional-type door, comprising plural door panels wherein one or more door panels can be operated independently of the remaining door panels and thereby the ingress point may be only partially occluded. Presently, sectional-type doors are used to block ingress/egress into permanent structures such as commercial and residential garages, and on a reduced scale, to block ingress/egress into mobile structures such as panel vans and storage containers. Heretofore, sectional-type doors have typically been employed wherein the sectional door traverse tracks located on either side of a portal as a linked series of door panels. Due to the means by which the series of door panels are linked, a sectional-type door may only be in one of three states relative to the portal opening: fully closed to a lower aspect, fully open to an upper aspect, and partially open wherein the sectional-type door depends from an upper aspect and thereby providing an unoccluded gap in the lower aspect. By modifying the means by which an individual door panel is linked to neighboring panels, it possible to independently operate one or more sectional-type door panels and thereby provide an opening in a portal occluded by a sectional-type door wherein a lower aspect of the portal opening is occluded and an opening is provided above the lower aspect and below the upper aspect.