E - Fixed Constructions – 06 – B
Patent
E - Fixed Constructions
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B
E06B 9/15 (2006.01) A47B 96/20 (2006.01) E06B 3/46 (2006.01) E06B 9/11 (2006.01) E06B 9/17 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2428774
A panel 1 for use as a flexible closure member capable of travel around an arcuate track or storage around a roller comprises a plurality of elongate hollow slats 2 each laterally adjacent to another and a backing material comprising at least one flexible substrate 9 secured to a face of each slat so as to connect the slats to one another. Each slat has an elongate front wall portion 4 and an elongate rear wall portion 6 opposite to and spaced apart from the front wall portion 4, which front and rear wall portions 4, 6 are interconnected by opposed, spaced apart, elongate side wall portions 8, 10. Respective front wall portions 4 are capable of defining a front face of the panel, while respective rear wall portions 6 provide the respective faces to which the flexible substrate is secured. One side wall portion 8 of each respective slat is profiled so as to provide an elongate protrusion laterally outwardly of the front and rear wall portions and the other side wall portion 10 is profiled so as to provide an elongate recess laterally inwardly of the front and rear wall portion whereby, when the panel is in a flat condition, respective protrusions and recesses provided by adjacent side wall portions 8, of adjacent slats 2 are capable of interengagement, thereby providing stability and stiffness of the panel, but whereby the respective protrusions are capable of separation out of engagement with one another so as to allow flexure of the panel during travel around an~ arcuate track or storage around a roller.
Elliot Keith Stuart
Gregson Simon
Riches Mckenzie & Herbert Llp
Rotalac Plastics Ltd.
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