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US 6,298,766 B1Granted
Blast protection of curtain walls
OwnerUzi Morinventor
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Abstract
Protective apparatus including a plurality of spaced, slender tensile elements installed in a room inwards of a glass panel of a curtain wall of the room, wherein when the glass panel is destroyed by an explosive blast, the tensile elements generally prevent fragments from the glass panel from flying inwards past the tensile elements.
Claims9
A room protection system comprising:
- at least one stationary tensile element installed in a room inwardly of a glass panel of the room;
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- a tensioner associated with said at least one stationary tensile element, wherein when said glass panel is destroyed by an explosive blast, said at least one tensile element generally prevent fragments from said glass panel from flying inwards past said at least one tensile element.
A room protection system comprising:
- at least one glass panel which is formed with at least one of a coating and a lamination;
- at least one stationary tensile element installed inwardly of said glass panel, wherein when said glass panel which is formed with at least one of a coating and a lamination is destroyed by an explosive blast, said at least one tensile element generally prevent fragments from said glass panel from flying inwardly into a room past said at least one tensile element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.