Curtain for storage rack
AssigneeAmerican Business Forms, Inc.
InventorGregory Scott Guyette
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Abstract
An example curtain system can include: a curtain forming a flexible body with an opening at each corner of the body; a tensioning device at each corner of the body of the curtain to couple the curtain to a backside of a rack, wherein each tensioning device includes a hook member with a first end sized to engage an opening in the rack and a threaded second end; and a nut configured to be threaded onto the threaded second end of the hook member to tension the curtain relative to the rack.
Claims20
A curtain system, comprising:
- a curtain forming a flexible body with an opening at each corner of the body;
- a tensioning device at each corner of the body of the curtain to couple the curtain to a backside of a rack, wherein each tensioning device includes a hook member with a first end sized to engage an opening in the rack and a threaded second end;
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- a nut configured to be threaded onto the threaded second end of the hook member to tension the curtain relative to the rack.
A curtain system, comprising:
- a curtain forming a flexible body with an opening at each corner of the body;
- a tensioning device at each corner of the body of the curtain to couple the curtain to a backside of a rack, wherein each tensioning device includes:
- a u-shaped body defining two openings;
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- a hook member extending through the two openings of the u-shaped body, the hook member having a first end sized to engage an opening in the rack and a threaded second end;
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- a nut configured to be threaded onto the threaded second end of the hook member to tension the curtain relative to the rack.
A method for spanning an opening in a backside of a rack, the method comprising:
- positioning a curtain to span the opening in the backside of the rack;
- coupling a body of a tensioning device to an opening formed in each corner of the curtain;
- coupling a hook member of each tensioning device to a corner of the rack forming the opening;
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- rotating a nut onto the hook member of each tensioning device until the curtain is sufficiently tensioned to span the opening in the backside of the rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.