Apple continues to seek patents for the designs of itsone-of-a-kind flagship retail stores, with the latest applicationrelated to the curved glass roof of the Upper West Side location inNew York City. The details of the Upper West Side store are revealed in a new patent application published this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Officeentitled "Support Structure and Building Including Same." Inparticular, the filing concentrates on the curved glass roof thatApple has constructed at the New York store. The documents describe the support structure implemented at thestore to support the massive glass structure that acts as both itsfront and its roof. The support structure on the sides of the building not only helpssupport the glass entrance and roof, but it also gives the storeits simple, elegant look by hiding utilities from view.
"In order to help maintain the glass look and feel of the building,building utilities can be routed through (the) support structure,hiding them from view and thereby preventing them from interruptingor interfering with the glass look and feel of the building," thefiling reads. "To accomplish this, utilities can be routed withinpurlins." The latest filing comes a week after the USPTO also revealedApple's intentions to patent the design of the huge class cylinder that serves as the entrance to its megastore in Shanghai, China.The underground retail location has an elaborate, 12-meter-tallcylinder assembled from a number of curved glass panels. Apple's Upper West Side store in New York City also features curvedglass on its roof, along with a front entrance that is 54 feettall, 75 feet wide and 30 feet deep, made primarily out of glass.It officially opened in November of 2009 . A long list of inventors is credited with the design of the UpperWest Side store.
They are Karl Backus, George Bradley, TimEliassen, Timothy W. Gudgel, Scott David Hazard, Holger Krueger,Marcin Marchewka, Michael Mulhern, Patrick O'Brien, JamesO'Callaghan, and Yutang Zhang. For the last few years, Apple has focused primarily on buildinglarger, more impressive stores that can accommodate the massiveamount of foot traffic they attract. During the company's mostrecent quarterly earnings conference call, Apple officials revealedthat Apple stores have an average of 18,000 visitors per store, per week, earning average quarterly revenue of $12.2million per location. I am Textiles & Leather Products writer, reports some information about thermal window curtains , waxed cotton fabric.
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