Patent ID: 6068040
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: E06B

Abstract:
An edge retainer adapted to be secured to a slat of an overhead rolling door formed of a plurality of elongate substantially horizontal slats each defining a slat plane and having two opposing substantially parallel longitudinal edges and a lateral edge at each longitudinal end, adjacent slats being hingedly interlocked at their longitudinal edges to enable the door to assume a rolled condition when the door is open and a substantially planar condition when the door is closed, the retainer comprising first and second members having mounting portions for bridging a lateral edge of a slat and for being secured to opposite surfaces of the slat to receive at least a portion of a lateral edge sandwiched therebetween, and an end lock integrally formed with one of said mounting portions for extending from one side of the slat plane to the other side thereof, a wind lock integrally formed with the other of said mounting portions and extending from said other side of said slat plane to said one side thereof, whereby longitudinally outwardly directed forces on at least one of said windlock and end lock promotes said mounting portions to press against and grip a sandwiched portion of a lateral edge of the slat between said mounting portions.