Claims
- 1. A goods-handling door comprising:
- two vertical lateral uprights, each of them having a vertical slideway;
- a raisable flexible curtain having a bottom edge;
- curtain lifting means including an electric motor for lifting said curtain in order to leave way to a person or a goods-handling vehicle;
- a plurality of horizontal reinforcing bars, each of said bars being fixed to said curtain,
- each of said reinforcing bar having two ends which slide in said slideways, said plurality of reinforcing bars including intermediate reinforcing bars and a lowermost reinforcing bar disposed at a distance above said bottom edge of said curtain; and an additional, flexible bar, disposed at said bottom edge of said curtain, said flexible bar being flexible and deformable so that a shock received at the bottom edge of the curtain will not injure a person or damage a goods-handling vehicle.
- 2. The goods-handling door according to claim 1, wherein said flexible bar is lighter than said lowermost reinforcing bar.
- 3. The goods-handling door according to claim 1, wherein said flexible bar includes a coil spring receivable within a sheath formed along said bottom edge of said curtain.
- 4. The goods-handling door according to claim 1, wherein said flexible bar includes a plurality of rigid members disposed end to end in a sheath formed along the bottom edge of said curtain.
- 5. The goods-handling door according to claim 1, wherein said curtain lifting means further include a horizontal winding shaft actuated by said electric motor and disposed above the curtain, for winding up said curtain around said wind shaft.
- 6. The goods-handling door according to claim 1, wherein said curtain lifting means further include vertical belts and a horizontal winding shaft for winding said belts, said horizontal winding shaft being disposed above said curtain and actuated by said electric motor, said belts being attached to said lowermost reinforcing bar and passing slidably by said intermediate reinforcing bars, such that the curtain is folded concertina-like when said belts are wound up around said belts are wound up around said wind shaft.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 748,972, filed Aug. 23, 1991, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Ser. No. 566,623, filed Aug. 10, 1990, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,072,767.
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Continuations (1)
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