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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2010
R. Peter Kimener, Loveland, OH (US);
Thomas Terrance Kimener, Loveland, OH (US);
Kenneth A. Frank, Cincinnati, OH (US);
R. Peter Kimener, Loveland, OH (US);
Thomas Terrance Kimener, Loveland, OH (US);
Kenneth A. Frank, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Midwest Industrial Door, Inc., Loveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A repositionable loading dock pit seal panel comprising: (a) a repositionable pit seal panel including a substantially incompressible height and width sized to substantially span an entire vertical dimension and substantially span an entire widthwise dimension of a loading dock pit to substantially close off a cross-sectional area of the loading dock pit when the repositionable pit seal panel is in a barrier position, where the repositionable pit seal panel is repositionably mounted to at least one of an overhead door, a surface partially defining the loading dock pit, and a surface adjacent to the loading dock pit, where the repositionable pit seal panel is repositionable between the barrier position inhibiting horizontal use of a vertically stored dock leveler and a storage position allowing horizontal use of the vertically stored dock leveler, where the repositionable pit seal panel in the barrier position cooperates with the overhead door to close off a loading dock opening defined by a loading dock doorway and the cross-sectional area of the loading dock pit, and where the width of the repositionable pit seal panel is less than a width of a bottom section of the overhead door.