Movable or removable closures – Collinear closures – one moves to offset position – Moved closure has additional movement
Patent
1986-04-25
1987-11-10
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Movable or removable closures
Collinear closures, one moves to offset position
Moved closure has additional movement
49148, 49213, 16 95R, 16102, E05D 1520
Patent
active
047048190
ABSTRACT:
A flat sliding door unit comprising a main rail extending in the right and the left directions along the upper door frame; swing arms provided aside the main rail and supported by the upper door frame or an extension thereof; sliding doors, each of which is provided with a pair of rollers to be shifted along the main rail and secured to upper both ends of the sliding door; wherein the swing arm is provided with an engaging pin at the tip thereof; a hook member to detachably engage the engaging pin and extending from the roller stay disposed on the leading end in the opening direction of the sliding door; an opening part of the hook member being directed in a fixed direction so as to depart from the engaging pin when the sliding door is slid along the main rail in the opening direction; the sliding door being retained in the closure position when the hook member engages the engaging pin; and, upon swinging of the sliding door to one side, the swing arm swings to shift the roller retaining the swing arm to a door-movement-starting position on the main rail.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1109071 (1914-09-01), Judia
Anderson Gerald A.
Dorner Kenneth J.
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