E06B 9/56
Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures
Official title: Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor (devices of general interest specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material B65H75/34)
E06B9/56 (Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures) appears on 2,872 US grants and 3,060 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E06B- Granted patents
- 2,872
- Published applications
- 3,060
- Assignees
- 959
- Inventors
- 3,637
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 36 | 56 |
| 2004 | 39 | 69 |
| 2005 | 47 | 85 |
| 2006 | 58 | 77 |
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| 2021 | 153 | 167 |
| 2022 | 134 | 183 |
| 2023 | 141 | 154 |
| 2024 | 143 | 173 |
| 2025 | 145 | 116 |
| 2026 | 70 | 99 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- E06B 9/68Operating devices or mechanisms1,502
- E06B 9/80Safety measures against dropping or unauthorised opening755
- E06B 9/58Guiding devices681
- E06B 9/60Spring drums operated only by closure members329
- E06B 9/78For direct manual operation276
- E06B 9/62Counterweighting arrangements163
- E06B 9/64With lowerable roller71
- E06B 9/66With a roller situated at the bottom57
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