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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2008
Willis J. Mullet, Gulf Breeze, FL (US);
Kelly Ray Green, Jay, FL (US);
Thomas B. Bennett, Iii, Wooster, OH (US);
Willis J. Mullet, Gulf Breeze, FL (US);
Kelly Ray Green, Jay, FL (US);
Thomas B. Bennett, III, Wooster, OH (US);
Overhead Door Corporation, Lewisville, TX (US);
Abstract
A door system () including, a door (D) movably mounted on a track assembly (), a counterbalance system () connected to the door and having at least one spring (), a tool adapter () proximate at least one end of the counterbalance system, a detachable winding assembly () adapted to selectively engage and selectively rotate the tool adapter to adjust tensioning of the spring, and a locking assembly () interacting with the counterbalance system to maintain a selected tensioning of the counterbalance system upon detaching the winding assembly from the tool adapter.