Abstract: A motor-driven window regulator for use with a horizontally sliding window installed in the rear window opening of a pickup truck cab. The sliding window is moved between a closed position wherein it fills a gap between two fixed, outboard mounted windows and an open position wherein it slides to overlap one of the fixed leaving the gap open. The sliding window is actuated by a pair of linear actuation cables, each of which is attached to the sliding window at a first end and to a motor-driven cable drive drum at a second end. The linear actuation cables extend away from the sliding window in opposite directions parallel with the direction of sliding movement and wrap around the cable drive drum in opposite directions so that rotation of the cable drive drum in one direction places a first cable in tension to pull the sliding window toward the open position and rotation of the cable drive drum in the opposite direction tensions the second cable to pull the sliding window toward the closed position.

Abstract: A window assembly for a motor vehicle body enclosing a passenger compartment has a structural frame mounting a sliding pane. Guide means are provided for guiding the sliding pane as it slides between its open and closed positions. The guide means includes kick-out means for forcibly guiding the sliding pane toward an offset, substantially parallel plane upon initial movement of the sliding pane from its closed position toward its open position. Such initial offset facilitates mounting of the sliding pane in its closed position in a plane substantially flush with an adjacent fixed position pane or other object of the window assembly of the vehicle body. Pull/pull type drive means are provided for operating the sliding pane. Specifically, a cable-and-drum drive mechanism of the window assembly includes a drive cable wrapped around a drive drum and attached to the sliding pane.

Abstract: A flush-closing multi-pane window assembly for a motor vehicle is provided, comprising a frame for mounting in a window recess in the vehicle body, one or more fixed-position panes mounted to the frame and at least one sliding pane mounted to the frame for sliding between an open position and a closed position. In its open position, the sliding pane overlaps a fixed-position pane, but in its closed position is substantially flush therewith. Guide means are provided for guiding the sliding pane as it moves laterally between its open and closed position. The guide means includes fixed members extending from the sliding panes substantially perpendicular to its direction of travel and kick-out means provided by the frame for engaging the fixed members at least during initial lateral movement of the sliding pane from its closed position to its open position.

Abstract: A vehicle door assembly including front and rear doors which are latched together, and wherein the usual center pillar is integral with the front door. The rear door can be unlatched from the front door and the rear pillar and opened independent of the front door. Rollers on the rear door slide in a bottom track to roll the door along side the rear of the vehicle.

Abstract: A device is provided for opening and closing a door (5) in a doorway (7) of a structure (9) in a railway or bus car comprising an upper ejection assembly, a lower ejection assembly and a translation assembly, the upper ejection assembly further comprising a translation slide bar. The upper and lower ejection assemblies comprise rotation arms (1, 11) joined at one side to the fixed structure (9) by hinges (13) mounted through curved slots on respective brackets (15), and at the other side to a frame which is integral with the door (5). A slide bar (37) passes through the doorway (7) and is pivoted at one end to a movable end of the upper arm (1), and at the other end to a fixed bracket (47) on the other side of the doorway (7).

Abstract: A cabinet with sliding doors includes tracks for supporting said doors and track shifting members for shifting the doors between two positions. In one position the doors are disposed adjacent a cabinet frame defining an opening, said doors sealing said opening. In another position of the tracks the doors are spaced away from the frame and each other so that they can slide at will to allow objects to be inserted or withdrawn from the cabinet. A handle may be used to shift the tracks back and forth. The doors may be transparent to permit the cabinet to be used for displaying as well as storing articles.

Abstract: Door provided with a door frame, and at least one mobile panel having a top and a bottom. The mobile panel is capable of displacement between a closed position where the mobile panel is in place in the door frame and an open position where the mobile panel is moved aside with respect to the closed position, and the mobile panel passes from one to the other of these two positions by lateral displacement in a lateral direction from the closed plane to the opening plane and sliding in the opening plane.

Abstract: A door system of the swivel-sliding type for use in a vehicle, suitable in particular for a vehicle for public transport, the door system comprising at least one door panel; suspension means for the at least one door panel, which comprise a telescopic guide; and a drive system for the at least one door panel, wherein the drive system comprises at least one piston-cylinder assembly of which a first movable part is connected to the telescopic guide via a system of arms and rods so as to cause the telescopic guide in operation to perform a plugging movement, while a second part of the piston-cylinder assembly is provided with a projection extending into a track having a first section extending substantially transverse to the at least one door panel and an adjoining section extending substantially parallel to the telescopic guide, the projection forming a part of a pantograph construction mounted between a fixed pivot point and a point of attachment on the door panel, said pantograph construction transmitting the

Abstract: A single sliding sash in which a sliding door, which is positioned on the internal side of a fixed section when open and which closes an open section when closed, is fixed to a window frame. This window frame has the fixed section on one side thereof and the open section on the other side. Upper guide rails are provided on a head. The sliding door is supported, with the aid of sliding door support pieces, by a pair of sash pulleys, which travel along the upper guide rails so as to change the position of the sliding door in the direction of the shash pulleys. A bend space is provided close to a door front edge hard frame of the upper guide rails. One end of the bend space communicates with a guide space which is provided between the guide rails, whereas the other end of the bend space is arranged on the external side of the guide space.

Abstract: A roof system for a vehicle has forward and rearward roof windows. The forward roof window is opened and closed by means of a sliding roof member. The sliding roof member can slide beyond the rearward roof window when the forward roof window is open.

Abstract: A multi-directional track and trolley system for movably supporting wall panels in which the track includes spaced track flanges forming a track slot and at least one track intersection having a curved track element with a curved edge and the trolley includes radial support wheels rotatably mounted in laterally spaced tandem pairs on a plate, frame or rigid trolley body for rotation about spaced parallel horizontal axes. The trolley is provided with guide rollers adjacent each end thereof and a centrally disposed panel supporting member which depend from the trolley body and are positioned in the track slot with the guide rollers mounted for rotation about generally vertical axes to guide the trolley.

Abstract: A movable safety cover for covering an elongated opening in a floor. Has a plurality of deck carriers positioned adjacently and supported on each elongated side of the opening by a respective carrier track. Has track roller members mounted at each end of the side members of a carrier in a position slightly out of contact with the track member when the side members are in frictional contact and engaging the track in rolling relation when one end of the carrier is lifted up slightly from the frictional contact of the tracks. Has a plurality of low profile rolling ball transfer members mounted on top of the side members to permit the carrier to roll across the top of an adjacent carrier.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to guide structure in a piece of furniture having a group of sliding doors including first and second doors alternately disposed in a coplanar relation when in respective closed positions thereof. Each first door is slidably guided in a lateral direction by 2 first group of guide members via rigid connecting elements connected thereto and sliding elements in sliding engagement with the first group of guide members. Each of the second doors is not only slidably guided in the lateral direction by a second group of guide members but is forwardly shiftable in the piece of furniture via articulating parallelogram linkages connected thereto and sliding elements in sliding engagement with the second group of guide members. A third group of longitudinal guide members are disposed adjacent and extend parallel to the first and second groups of guide members.

Abstract: This invention relates to a window assembly with a window frame having a first window sash mounted fixedly in the frame and a second window sash mounted for movement between a closed position and at least one open position in parallel relation to the first sash. The window frame has a main frame and an auxiliary frame that mates with the main frame to define a common frame outline and to combine with at least one of the sash to define guideways to guide the second sash as it moves between the closed position and an open position.

Abstract: A window assembly for a vehicle has a frame for connection with vehicle body structure, a fixed window in the frame which is substantially flush with the frame at its exterior, a sliding window moveable between open and closed positions and releasable locks for locking the sliding window in its closed position. The sliding window when moved to its open position is parallel to and behind the fixed window and when moved forward its closed position is also automatically cammed and moved outwardly so as to lie in the same plane and be flush with the fixed window.

Abstract: A side window for motor vehicle includes a window frame fixed to a longitudinal side of a motor vehicle body, a pair of guide rails mounted on the window frame in a longitudinal direction, a first windshield slidably mounted on the guide rails, a second windshield installed in the window frame and tiltable toward the exterior of the vehicle body around a pin supported at one end thereof by a preset angle, a slide-crank mechanism for freeing the slide path of the first windshield from the second windshield in response to sliding the first windshield and for arranging both first and second windshields in a same plane in closed position of both first and second windshields.

Abstract: Tilt-slide mechanism for moving a wing of a window or door to a parallel stop position and in this position for shifting it horizontally. The mechanism has lower and upper shift arms, wherein the lower arms 10 are in each case pivotally mounted (on the one hand) on the lower transverse wing beam and (on the other hand) on a traveling carriage. A releasable blocking device is provided for the lower shift arms when they are located in the parallel position. The blocking device consists of a two-armed hinged supporting lever and a guide pivot pin; its lower arm is shiftable along a guide slot on the wing. The guide pivot pin of the supporting lever combines with a detent recess to join the guide slot on the wing to the blocking device for fixing the lower shift arm relative to the wing in the parallel stop position.

Abstract: Hardware for a door or window, in which the closure can be moved out of the opening in the stationary frame to another position parallel to the said opening and then moved horizontally to a position that is non-coextensive with the opening. Upper and lower swing arms are provided, each connecting the closure to a traveling carriage. A releasable locking device is provided to lock the closure in the outer position, the device having a supporting lever connecting the swing arm to the carriage. This lever is brought into working position during the movement of the closure by means of a control lug with a thrust abutment located on the frame. The supporting lever consists of a bell crank pivotally mounted on the carriage, which crank carries the control lug at the end of one arm directed toward the stationary frame. The other arm, extending toward the swing arm, is pivotally connected to a connecting rod which is also swingably connected to the swing arm.

Abstract: The sliding door cupboard structure comprises a body closable frontally by at least two mutually sliding doors, and a guide plate supported on the body and spanning substantially the full width of the body. With the guide plate there operatively interact support elements for each of the sliding doors, to which there are connected link elements operative with the guide plate which are adapted to permit free displacement of the support elements with respect to the guide plate at all places on the plane defined by the guide plate itself.

Abstract: A door device for furniture, which has a plurality of door members provided laterally in opposition to each other in a front opening of a furniture body, longitudinal sliders capable of moving the door members in the longitudinal direction with respect to the furniture body, and a lateral slider capable of moving the door members in the lateral direction with respect to the furniture body, the front opening being opened by sliding one of the door members forward and then sideways to superpose the door member on the front surface of the adjacent door member, a plurality of support rails fixed to the portions of the furniture body which correspond to the door members, and a support roller which is adapted to engage a support rail on the side of the door member adjacent to the door member to be opened, when the lateral slider is extended to more than a predetermined extent during the lateral sliding of the door member to be opened to cause the lateral slider to be inclined slightly due to the load of the same do

Abstract: A flat sliding door unit comprising an upper suspension secured to the upper frame on the front of a furniture, a lower suspension secured to the lower frame on the front, and a pair of sliding doors disposed on the right and left sides and supported by the suspensions, the upper suspension comprising a straight rail extending in the right and left directions, a pair of side rails disposed on the right and left sides and extending rearwardly from the central part of the straight rail, and a pair of pointers for switching the door path from the straight rail to side rails, the lower suspension comprising a straight rail extending in the right and left directions, a side space formed to extend rearwardly from the central part of the straight rail, and side paths formed to extend obliquely rearwardly from both ends of the straight rail, and, the right- and left-hand sliding doors each being provided, at both lower ends, with a pair of lower sliding bodies to slide along the rail of the lower suspension and, furt

Abstract: A lateral sliding sash comprises a sash frame having upper and lower frame members and two upright frame members; a first sash piece slidably mounted on the sash frame; a second sash piece; two sets of sliding members slidably mounted on the lower and upper frame members, respectively, the sliding members of each set being separated a predetermined distance and capable of being moved together; and two sets of linkarms pivotally connected to the sets of sliding members at their one ends, and to the lower and upper surfaces of the second sash piece at their other ends, respectively. The linkarms of each set are parallel to each other, so that the second sash piece can be pushed to engage in the sash frame and in alignment with the first sash piece, and can be pulled to disengage from the sash frame by the movements of the sets of linkarms and slid laterally with the sets of sliding members along the lower and upper frame members.

Abstract: A coplanar closure sliding window having improved performance and sealed type characteristics. A window frame is constructed using a single profile, the vertical sections of the window sashes being formed by another profile and a horizontal section of sashes being constructed from a third type of profile.

Abstract: A sliding door structure suitable for furniture and the like, comprises a first door (1) and a second door (2), respectively slidable on a pair of parallel, spaced upper guides (4,6) and a pair of parallel, spaced lower guides (3,5). The said first door (1) is connected to rollers (17), which roll on the guides (4), by a mechanism (10-40) able to cause a coplanar positioning of the doors (1,2) in the closure position, and displacement of the first door (1), substantially perpendicularly with respect to the door translation direction, to superimpose the first door (1) over the second door (2) during opening of the doors themselves.

Abstract: An operable wall system having a primary track and several storage tracks intersecting said primary track can be improved by the use of rotary switches at the intersections of the primary and storage tracks and by the use of a positioning structure carrying holders capable of being actuated so as to engage and disengage wall sections or panels being moved between said primary and said storage tracks. When such an operative wall structure is employed to move a wall section or panel on to the primary track from the storage tracks the panel to be moved is engaged by the holders and then these holders are moved through the movement of the positioning structure so as to place the section or panel being moved on to the switches. The holders are then disengaged from the panel or section and the switches are manipulated so as to allow the panel to be moved along the primary track. In storing panels the reverse of this series of operations is employed.

Abstract: A sliding door assembly for a vehicle body has a first, slidable door hung from an upper slide rail, and this door may be swung from a closed position in a parallel plane with a second door to an open position. The first door is swung between open and closed positions by a hand-operated lever of a lever mechanism; the lever is rotatable about a pivot pin to actuate operating rods to pivot a carriage so that rollers on the carriage rest at 45.degree. to the horizontal when the first door is closed, with an upper part of the circumference of each roller being received in an elongate slot.

Abstract: A panel assembly for a door or window including a generally quadrilateral frame member having a panel member operatively connected therewith for movement between a closed position and opened positions wherein the frame member is either tilted about one edge thereof or moved laterally offset parallel to itself. Latch means provided between the panel member and the quadrilateral frame include at least one releasing arm and an angular housing, with the angular housing being connected at a corner of the panel member with two adjacent members thereof and with the releasing arm having a panel-side end at which the releasing arm is connected with the angular housing.

Abstract: Apparatus for opening aligned sliding leaves of furniture, wherein the or each sliding leaf comprises, at its upper part, an upper track for receiving a first roller having a vertical axis and connected to a movable part of a slide guide fixedly secured to or integral with the furniture. The movable part is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the leaf and is provided with an engagement member, such as a pin, coupled with a first pulley connected, by means of an inextensible, flexible element, to a second pulley in a lower part of the furniture. The second pulley is supported by a horizontal shaft extending across the width of the door leaf and is provided at its ends with a pair of arms, acting upon lateral trolleys supported by pairs of rollers sliding in guides rigidly secured to the furniture. The trolleys carry a U-section member in which run horizontal-axis second rollers and vertical-axis third rollers, rigidly connected to the door leaf by means of a lower support member.

Abstract: An insulated single plane window or door assembly including a casing defining a generally rectangular opening in a building wall and having first and second pairs of spaced parallel tracks with each pair being adapted to support a glazing frame with the glazing frames normally disposed for sliding movement in parallel laterally spaced vertical planes and for pivotal movement to incline the glazing frames from their respective vertical planes, with one pair of tracks being adapted to displace the glazing frame supported therein laterally into the vertical plane of and into substantially edge-to-edge relation with the other glazing frame to close the door or window assembly. The casement includes a mullion extending transversely of the rectangular opening adjacent to the juxtaposed edges of the two glazing frames when in the closed position and a resilient seal is provided between the mullion and an external surface of the respective glazing frames.

Abstract: An operable wall system which is especially desirable for use with large and/or heavy wall panels can be constructed so that each panel in the system is supported from a track structure by two separate trolleys. The track structure includes a terminal section having two parallel end sections joined to the main portion of the track structure through a junction. This junction is provided with cams which cooperate with differently oriented flange wheels on successive trolleys so that the panels can be moved between a position in which they are aligned with one another beneath the main portion of the track structure and a position in which they are suspended from the end sections and are located in side by side relationship.

Abstract: A double panel sliding door arrangement where the two panels will lie in one plane when shut, said arrangement comprises upper and lower rails disposed on upper and lower wall portions of a door mounting frame to laterally move and guide right and left door panels by means of rollers provided at the upper and lower ends of the right and left sliding panels. The rails each have at the right and left sides thereof an oblique portion bent backwards, a rail switching portion and a guide portion in such a manner that one panel can be shifted beforehand, and to switch the rail. The sliding panels can be fully closed without a gap between the panels with only one rail without the necessity of chamfering the inner ends of the panels.

Abstract: A closure panel assembly including a frame member and a panel member adapted to be tilted relative to the frame member and also laterally offset relative thereto by movement parallel to itself is equipped with a panel latching mechanism which includes a locking member engaging between the panel member and the frame member to lock the lower end of the panel member relative to the frame member when the panel member is to be moved to its tilted position while enabling release of the lower end of the panel member when the panel member is to be parallel laterally offset.

Abstract: A sliding window assembly is flush mountable within a window opening in the body of a vehicle and includes a frame nested and sealed within the body. A fixed or stationary window is mounted and sealed within one end of the frame. Opposed top and bottom inwardly curved first and second channel tracks are formed within the frame. A slidable window is mounted and sealed within the frame and aligned with the stationary window. Opposed longitudinally spaced first and second guide pins on the top and bottom of the slidable window extend into the first and second tracks respectively. On retraction of the slidable window, it is positioned upon the interior portion of the vehicle parallel to and spaced inwardly of the stationary window.

Abstract: A sash is mounted in a first position in a fixed frame and is movable laterally into a second position where it is parallel to the first position. A plurality of swing arms connect the sash to a movable carriage so that in the second position the sash can be moved along a linear path between a closed position and open position relative to the first position of the sash in the fixed frame. At least one of the swing arms has a control arm pivotally attached to it. The control arm has a locking member engageable within and movable along a slot in the carriage. The locking member can be secured within a section of the slot angularly offset from the main section of the slot when the sash is in the second position. With the locking member secured in the angularly offset section, the sash is retained in the second position. A lug secured to the fixed frame is located in the path of the carriage as the sash moves along the linear path toward the closed position.

Abstract: A moveable, rollaway door or window panel is provided in a structure having one moveable panel and one fixed panel. The moveable panel, when in its closed position, is substantially co-planar with the fixed panel; and when in its fully open position, it is substantially co-extensive with and on the interior side of the fixed panel. A pair of control rods, one at each side, is concealed within the sash structure of the moveable panel, and is secured at its top and bottom ends to a cam member. Each cam member has a guide member which co-operates with a guide track, and is rotatable with respect thereto. The cam members at the upper ends of the control rod are connected to each other by a tie rod or cable in such a way that rotation of one of the control rods causes an equal rotation in the same direction of rotation of the other of the control rods, thereby assuring planar movement of all four corners of the moveable panel.

Abstract: An insulated multiple component single plane building structure portal closure embodying as components thereof a portal closure frame with glazing frame transversely disposed parallel tracks aligned the opposite sides thereof and adapted through use of glazing frame hardware in combination therewith to slidably receive therein one or more glazing frame sashes or panels in either a vertically or horizontally operable window or door assembly wherein the respective sash or panel members thereof are displaceable from a contiguous abutting single plane configuration within the portal closure frame track structure for parallelly slidable displaced movement for opening structure inward pivotal tilting, and removal therefrom or replacement thereto, wherein the entire portal closure frame and glazing frame structures incorporate complementary to the single plane secured closure configuration thereof transverse thermal barrier connectors intermediate the building structure interior and exterior exposure surfaces thereo

Abstract: A railway house car side has an elongated opening closed by four doors disposed in end-to-end relation lengthwise of the car with respect to each other, two of the doors, which may be designated end doors, being movable solely lengthwise of the car to uncover the end portions of the opening, the other two doors, which may be designated center doors, being movable transversely, to disalign them transversely of the car side from the end doors and lengthwise of the side alongside of the end doors to uncover the center portion of the opening. The edges of the end doors nearest the respective ends of the car side have beveled flanges engageable with outwardly diverging door stops on the car side to wedge the end doors against the car side when closed and the opposite edges of the end doors have flanges overlaid by the adjacent center door edges to hold the end doors against the car side, and the edge of one center door overlies that of the other to afford a seal between them.

Abstract: A drop action panel arrangement for operable partitions of the multidirectional type, wherein the partition is made up of a plurality of discrete panels each having a pair of carriers riding on an overhead track to facilitate movement of the panels between the point of use and a storage area that is remote from the space being subdivided. The individual panels are vertically movable relative to their carriers and are arranged to be releasably supported on their carriers in an elevated position above the floor to arrange them for movement between points of storage and points of use. At the point of use the panels are released from dropping under gravity onto the floor for manual juxtaposition and squaring with adjacent panels to form the partition. The individual panels have adjustable base shoes for squaring of the panels, and a top seal arrangement for sealing the gap between the individual panels and the track.

Abstract: The sliding wall includes a central wall section and two end wall sections, with the sections being co-planar in the closed state and movable, transversely of the car, out of the closing plane and into a shifting plane in which they are displaceable longitudinally of the car past closed wall sections. During shifting, the sliding wall sections are supported by rollers engageable with a rail, provided in an upper longitudinal stringer, and with the outer lateral surface of an outer lower longitudinal supporting beam, the stringer and the supporting beam forming, in cooperation with two corner posts, a side frame of the freight car. The upper rail is a single rectilinear and uninterrupted rail extending substantially the full length of the upper stringer. Each end section has, in the upper portion of its end adjacent the central section, an outwardly opening pocket having a horizontal catch member extending thereacross.

Abstract: An insulated multiple component single plane building structure portal closure embodying as components thereof a portal closure frame with glazing frame transversely disposed parallel tracks aligned the opposite sides thereof and adapted through use of glazing frame hardware in combination therewith to slidably receive therein one or more glazing frame sashes or panels in either a vertically or horizontally operable window or door assembly wherein the respective sash or panel members thereof are displaceable from a contiguous abutting single plane configuration within the portal closure frame track structure for parallelly slidable displaced movement for opening structure inward pivotal tilting, and removal therefrom or replacement thereto, wherein the entire portal closure frame and glazing frame structures incorporate complementary to the single plane secured closure configuration thereof transverse thermal barrier connectors intermediate the building structure interior and exterior exposure surfaces thereo