Aug 4, 2026

US12698953 - Impact resistant garage door

A garage door assembly provides resistance to both bullets and impacts while enabling the garage door to move between a horizontal open position and a vertical closed position. The garage door is formed with panels having a front impact shield, a rear plate, and high strength ballistic material sandwiched therebetween. Each panel is formed with a rearwardly extending structure that incorporates lateral extensions of the ballistic material in the panel and forms a hollow portion that encircles a bollard on opposing sides of the garage door. Each panel has a horizontal end cap at the opposing horizontal edges thereof, interconnected by opposing threaded members to encapsulate the sandwich construction of the panels. A cable overlapping the panels can be clamped to horizontal edges of each panel to reinforce the central portion of the garage door. The thickness of the front impact shield varies the resistance characteristics of the door.

Inventors: Amos B. Glick
Filing date: 2023-02-09

garagedoorimpactballistic

The patent describes an impact-resistant garage door assembly designed to withstand bullets and impacts, featuring panels made of high-strength ballistic material sandwiched between an impact shield and a rear plate. Each panel is interconnected with a pivot mechanism and incorporates rearward extensions that slide along vertical bollards, allowing the door to move between open and closed positions.

Claim 1

1 . An impact resistant garage door having a plurality of horizontally extending panels, including a top panel, a bottom panel and multiple middle panels, interconnected by a pivot located between adjacent ones of the panels to permit rotation of the adjacent panels relative to each other, comprising: a vertical bollard supported rearwardly on opposing sides of the garage door; each said panel having a panel body formed with a layer of high strength ballistic material sandwiched between a front impact shield and a rear plate; the top and bottom panels also having opposing rearward extensions of the panel body, which encircles the respective bollards, said rearward extensions sliding vertically along the bollards when the garage door moves between raised and lowered orientations. a vertical bollard supported rearwardly on opposing sides of the garage door; each said panel having a panel body formed with a layer of high strength ballistic material sandwiched between a front impact shield and a rear plate; the top and bottom panels also having opposing rearward extensions of the panel body, which encircles the respective bollards, said rearward extensions sliding vertically along the bollards when the garage door moves between raised and lowered orientations.

Google Patents

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