Patent ID: 9605474
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: E06B

Claim:
1. A garage door screen for use with an overhead garage door and a garage floor located in a garage interior, comprising: (a) a main screen assembly, wherein said main screen assembly includes an extensible screen, wherein said screen includes a retracted position in which said screen is maximally retracted within said main screen assembly, and an extended position in which a portion of said screen extends above the garage floor and said screen is not maximally retracted within said main screen assembly; (b) an opening in the garage floor sufficient to receive said main screen assembly, therein; (c) means for detachably-attaching said screen proximate a lower portion of the garage door when the garage door is disposed in a fully lowered position; (d) wherein said main screen assembly includes a housing for storing at least a portion of said main screen, therein, and wherein said housing includes a slot that extends longitudinally across a portion of a top of said housing, and wherein said screen is able to extend out of said housing through said slot and retract into said housing through said slot; (e) wherein said main screen assembly includes at least one plate that extends over and covers at least a portion of said opening, and wherein said plate is able to transfer a weight of a vehicle driving over said plate to said main screen assembly; (f) wherein said plate includes a first angled plate that is hingedly attached along a first side of said first angled plate to said housing proximate a first side of said slot, and wherein said plate includes a second angled plate that is hingedly attached along a first side of said second angled plate to said housing proximate an opposite second side of said slot, and wherein said first angled plate includes an opposite second side, and wherein said second angled plate includes an opposite second side, and wherein said first side of said first angled plate is disposed at an elevation that is equal to or greater than an elevation of said second side of said first angled plate when said main screen assembly is properly disposed in said opening, and wherein said first side of said second angled plate is disposed at an elevation that is equal to or greater than an elevation of said second side of said second angled plate when said main screen assembly is disposed in said opening; and (g) wherein, when the garage door is disposed in the fully lowered position and said screen is attached to said lower portion of the garage door, and when the garage door is then raised above the fully lowered position, said screen is urged upward and out of said main screen assembly an amount that is equal to an elevation that said lower portion of the garage door is elevated above the garage floor.