Decorative louvered door and method
OwnerGennaro A. D'Onofrio, Jr., Dorothy L. D'Onofrioinventors
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Abstract
A decorative louvered door and kit and method of ornamentally decorating a conventional louvered door. The louvered door includes a perimeter frame having a plurality of spaced, angled louvers extending between opposing upright margins of the frame. One or more groups of adjacent louvers include an elongated mirrored strip adhesively attached onto the outwardly facing surface of each louver in the group. An elongated beaded decorative molding is adhesively attached onto the outwardly facing surface of one or more other groups of adjacent louvers so that, in the preferred embodiment, all of the louvers are decorated in alternating groups of mirrored strips and decorative beaded moldings.
Claims6
A decorative louvered door comprising:
- a frame defining a perimeter of said door;
- a plurality of parallel evenly spaced elongated rectangular flat louvers connected in uniformly angled orientation one to another and extending horizontally between opposing spaced upright margins of said frame;
- an elongated rectangular mirror adhesively connected onto an outwardly facing surface of each of a first group of adjacent louvers of said plurality of louvers.
A method of ornamentally decorating a louvered door which includes a frame defining a perimeter of said door and a plurality of parallel evenly spaced elongated rectangular flat louvers connected in uniformly angled orientation one to another and extending horizontally between opposing spaced upright margins of said frame, comprising the steps of:
- A. adhesively attaching an elongated rectangular mirror onto an outwardly facing surface of each of a first group of adjacent louvers of said plurality of louvers.
A kit for ornamentally decorating a louvered door which includes a frame defining a perimeter of said door and a plurality of parallel evenly spaced elongated rectangular flat louvers connected in uniformly angled orientation one to another and extending horizontally between opposing spaced upright margins of said frame, said kit comprising:
- an elongated rectangular mirror adhesively connectable onto an outwardly facing surface of each of a first group of adjacent louvers of said plurality of louvers;
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- an elongated beaded decorative molding having a highly reflective polished surface adhesively connectable onto an outwardly facing surface of a second group of adjacent louvers of said plurality of louvers, said second group being different than said first group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.