Shop Curtains Raise, Lower Automatically
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"We wanted an easy way to partition off part of our 50 by 50-ft. shop so we could wash or paint equipment without getting water or paint all over everything," says John Imhoff, who, along with Dave and Ivan Kindig, set up four automatic curtains in his farm shop.
Each curtain is simply a 20 by 50-ft. conventional plastic tarp hung from the rafters. An electric gear motor attaches to one end of a 2 in. dia. steel pipe sewn into the bottom of the curtain. The motor "walks" up and down on a piece of sq. tubing that runs from floor to ceiling, rolling - or unrolling - the curtain as it goes.
A cable runs from the motor up over a pulley and down to a counterweight on back of the curtain so it raises evenly without binding.
To raise and lower the curtains, Imhoff simply throws an electric switch.
"It could be adapted to work on any size curtains," he says. "It works so well, we're in the process of patenting it."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Imhoff, R.R. 2, Box 52, Roanoke, Ill. 61561 (ph toll-free 888 817-5646 or 309 923-7345; fax 7845; E-mail sbfarms@daveworld.net).
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Shop Curtains Raise, Lower Automatically FARM SHOP Miscellaneous 22-6-39 "We wanted an easy way to partition off part of our 50 by 50-ft. shop so we could wash or paint equipment without getting water or paint all over everything," says John Imhoff, who, along with Dave and Ivan Kindig, set up four automatic curtains in his farm shop.
Each curtain is simply a 20 by 50-ft. conventional plastic tarp hung from the rafters. An electric gear motor attaches to one end of a 2 in. dia. steel pipe sewn into the bottom of the curtain. The motor "walks" up and down on a piece of sq. tubing that runs from floor to ceiling, rolling - or unrolling - the curtain as it goes.
A cable runs from the motor up over a pulley and down to a counterweight on back of the curtain so it raises evenly without binding.
To raise and lower the curtains, Imhoff simply throws an electric switch.
"It could be adapted to work on any size curtains," he says. "It works so well, we're in the process of patenting it."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Imhoff, R.R. 2, Box 52, Roanoke, Ill. 61561 (ph toll-free 888 817-5646 or 309 923-7345; fax 7845; E-mail sbfarms@daveworld.net).
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