A fellow worker was looking for a display enclosure with some kind of door to would protect the display when unused. When driving home I was looking at a very small flat rolling curtain door in my car .... that brought me to an idea. Back home I studied how this curtain door was made and I studied how this could be used in a display enclosure. The final idea was to make the curtain rolling up and make is sliding behind the display.

A creative challenge unable to resist, thus here we go!

I first made the rolling curtain door, using my CNC milling machine and composite brushed aluminum as material. The curtain is made of a series of small strips (5mm wide) glued on a rubber strap .... and yes it bends!

The next step was the left and right side of the enclosure, with a smooth groove in which the curtain slides. Therefor I used white PMMA (acrylic glass). Finally I used the same composite aluminum material to make the front and the back.

On the back a small rod is foreseen to mount the enclosure on a pole. A long screw goes through the rod to hold the left and right side together.