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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 11, 1999
Jace N. Green, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Bryan K. Ruggles, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Richard F. Chacon, Brea, CA (US);
Newell Operating Company, Freeport, IL (US);
Abstract
An expandable and contractible cellular panel,comprises a plurality of parallel, aligned, elongated tubular sections,secured together at the median region of their adjacent longitudinal margins to form the panel,The adjacent tubular sections,of the panel,are made of a pair of substantially identical separate strips of sheet material from those forming the other adjacent tubular sections,The various adjacent pairs of strips are laminated together along their confronting longitudinal margins. Each strip is made of at least two separate flexible substrate sheets,having completely different appearances, and are secured together by welding together their longitudinal margins. The corresponding substrate sheets,of all the strips have corresponding positions in the panel,so that all the substrate sheets having one appearance are on one side of the panel,and those having a different appearance are on the other side of the panel,and the welded portions,are located in the laminated portion of the strips where they are hidden from view.