Patent ID: 7143803

Claim:
A lift-up, ventilated gate and a system for opening and closing the ventilated gate for use with a garage door, the system comprising: a) a garage door comprising a plurality of hingedly joined sections, each of the sections having a first end, a second end, a width and being supported in a garage door support to move the garage door between an open and a closed position; b) a ventilated gate having a top and a bottom, a frame, a ventilation section in the frame, an inside and an outside, a first end and a second end, being hingedly connectable to a driveway surface across a major portion of the width of the garage door and having a cable connection near the top of the ventilated gate on each of its first and second ends; and, c) a first and a second cable and pulley system adapted for support on at least one of the garage door supports and garage surfaces and connected near the top of the ventilated gate to the first and second ends of the ventilated gate respectively and to a first and a second side respectively of a top of the garage door so that when the garage door is lowered toward its closed position the cable and pulley systems raise the ventilated gate to an upright position so that the top of the ventilated gate engages a bottom of the garage door.