Swing door and roll-up door with plural door facade

Details Swing door and roll-up door with plural door facade Swing door and roll-up door with plural door facade

1998-03-05

2001-05-08

Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3634)

Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel

Plural and/or with rigid closure

Diverse types

C160S113000, C160S116000, C160S201000, C049S169000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06227278

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to doors used to selectively open and close openings in structures. The doors include swing doors and roll-up garage doors used with buildings having doorways located in a vertical position to close the doorway and a horizontal position to open the doorway.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Garage doorways in antiquated garages are closed with swinging doors attached to upright supports with hinges. These doors must be moved outwardly to open the doorway. The swinging doors require ground and head clearances to allow the doors to open and close. The designs of the swinging doors are having an architectural renaissance. In order to obviate the clearance requirements of the swinging doors, laterally roll open doors were developed. The roll open doors have a number of vertical sections hinged together in side-by-side relation. The doors are supported on right angle tracks for movement along the tracks between a closed position and an open position. The tracks are mounted on headers above the doorways and side supports extended inwardly from one side of vehicles in the garages. This makes it difficult to access and egress from the side of the vehicles adjacent the open doors. This problem was overcome with roll-up overhead doors. The roll-up overhead doors have horizontal panels that are hinged together. Rollers mount the panels on side tracks having vertical and horizontal sections to locate the door in a vertical closed position and an overhead horizontal position. The roll-up doors must be opened to allow a person to enter and exit the building.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a combined swing door and roll-up overhead door having a plurality of transverse panels for closing a doorway in a structure, such as a garage. Adjacent panels are connected with hinges to allow the door to articulate from a vertical position to a horizontal position as it moves along the side tracks which support the door adjacent a doorway. A border frame mounted on the front of the panels has openings accommodating a door facade. The frame has upright side and middle members and a transverse top member joined to the side members providing an outline of a doorway for the door facade. The swing door located adjacent one side of the roll-up door permits entrance and exit of a person from the building without opening the roll-up door.
An embodiment of the roll-up overhead door has a plurality of transverse panels comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, and intermediate panels. Hinges connect adjacent panels to allow the door to articulate from a vertical position to a horizontal position as it moves along side tracks which support the door adjacent a doorway. Each panel has framework to cover the inside of the framework. An outside wall of each panel includes sheet members attached to the framework to cover the outside of the framework. The outside sheet members are two or more one-piece wood sheet materials, such as exterior cedar plywood. The lower edges of the outside sheet members overlap an upper portion of the framework of an adjacent panel to provide a stepped interface between adjacent panel which inhibits the flow of wind, dust, water, and snow through the door. A border frame attached to the outside of the panels sets out openings that simulate side-by-side doorways. A swinging double door facade is imparted on the panel sections between the side and center border frame members. The roll-up door the center border frame has an upwardly curved or arched shape. The swinging door facade has arched windows located below arch of the top border frame. The sheet members of the outside walls of the panels are located below the windows. The swing door has a size, shape and configuration that follows a vertical section of the roll-up door to provide a four swing door facade.


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