Abstract:
The present invention relates to sliding doors for closure of entranceways and to companionway entrance closure for watercraft in particular. A sliding plastic door panel is provided and the door panel, being translucent, admits light into the interior of a cabin area. The entire door assembly is mounted on the outside of a boat cabin and does not take up space in the cabin interior, but allows more usable cabin space within.Upper and lower plastic tracks are provided for movement of plastic roller trucks therein. The door panel, the two open tracks and the roller assembly are non metallic and non-corroding and the rollers do not require lubrication. The door panel and other parts do not require painting and provide a track and roller arrangement in which the weight of the sliding door panel is directed downward against the bottom of the track, and provides a sliding door that is smooth and easy to use in operation, and very attractive in appearance.
Abstract:
An integral plastics body mounted on a corner connector for a door can serve as either a hanger or guide. As a hanger, the assembly supports the weight of a door for sliding along a horizontal overhead track having a downwardly extending L-shaped limb. If used as a guide with such a track, the plastics body can move vertically relative to the corner connector. Rigid posts extend upwardly from the body for encompassing opposite sides of the foot of the L-shaped limb on the track. A flexible finger extending upwardly from the body has a hook that fits over the top of the foot on the L-shaped limb for safely latching the plastics body to the track, thereby preventing toppling of the door. A tab on the finger permits it to be manually flexed to withdraw the hook from over the foot and release the plastics body from the track.
Abstract:
A shower door mounted on rails for movement thereon and having a lower guide assembly which is free-floating and which comprises a flange retained in a lower sill track slot and having the other end hingedly mounted on a flange of the shower door.
Abstract:
Apparatus for hanging sliding doors of a closet include upper and lower track members each of which has a rear wall and guide rails for guidingly supporting the rollers of at least two sliding doors. At least one longitudinally extending groove is formed in each track member and is accessible through the rear wall. A threaded nut is positioned non-rotatably but displaceable lengthwise within each groove. A bracket having a pair of mutually substantially perpendicularly extending legs is connected to each track member by one of its legs. The other leg of each bracket has at least one hole formed therein for reception of a fastening element so that such other leg can be connected to a selected vertical wall of the closet. A threaded fastening element is insertable through the one bracket leg into the groove and is threadedly cooperable with the threaded nut to connect the bracket to the track member.
Abstract:
This invention relates to structural members for mounting and guiding sliding doors and includes an integral extrusion to avoid the high expenditure for mounting the entire structure. The integral extrusion profile is torsionally rigid, and has runner and guide rails arranged exactly vertically, one above the other, which are engaged by runner and guide rollers of the carriage of L-shaped cross-section supporting a door board.
Abstract:
A stile and rail forming a corner, are connected by a unitary corner connector having a first upright portion disposed in a channel of the stile, a laterally extending portion, and a second upright portion spaced from and extending in the same direction as the first upright portion and disposed in an opening in the rail spaced laterally from the stile. The first upright portion includes a shoulder and the channel includes a shoulder, with the shoulders being in engagement to lock the corner connector to the stile. The second upright portion includes a shoulder engaging a shoulder defining the rail opening to lock the corner to the rail. When the connector is an upper connector a member is adjustably connected to the second upright portion which suspends the connector to an upper track. When the connector is a lower connector, an elongated guide element is slidably connected to the second upright portion which guides the connector on a lower track. Other details to the corner connector guide element, and adjustable member are embodied herein.