Abstract: A pocket-door assembly includes a pair of trolley assemblies fixed to an upper edge of a vertically disposed door. A header member is positioned generally horizontally over the door and comprises a central plate portion with a pair of integrally formed downwardly extending tracks for receiving rollers of the trolley assemblies. The header member is attachable to a standard dimension lumber member of the wood frame structure within which the pocket-door assembly is intended to be inserted, and is preferably a unitary extruded metal structure. A plurality of vertical stud members are fixed at their upper ends to the header member on opposite sides thereof defining a pocket within which the door is receivable. The stud members each comprise a metal channel member having a generally C-shaped cross section into which a standard dimension lumber piece is inserted.

Abstract: A door apparatus includes a door movable between a closed position and an open position with respect to a stationary structure, and a support device for supporting the door. The support device includes a magnet mounted on one of the door and the stationary structure, and a member of a magnetic material mounted on the other of the door and the stationary structure. The magnet and said magnetic member cooperates with each other to produce a magnetic force therebetween to support at least part of the weight of the door.

Abstract: A magnetic door opener device adapted to be positioned below a countertop made of non-magnetic materials, the device having a pair of magnets which attractively interact with a pair of magnets attached to the bottoms of a pair of windows which are suspended on a trolley for movement to or fro to determine closed and opened positions of the window. The device underneath the countertop comprises a pair of spaced toothed sprockets supporting an endless belt having inner and outer runs, the outer run supporting a magnet adapted to magnetically cooperate with a magnet in the bottom of one of the windows, and the other run of the belt supporting a different magnet adapted to attractively cooperate with a magnet in the bottom of the other window. A motor control and limit switches are provided for controlling the opening and closing positions of the windows when a control switch is operated by an operator.

Abstract: A shower partition with a horizontal guide rail includes a door assembly displaceable in the guide rail by guide roller mounted on eccentric pins. Each eccentric pin is arranged in a hole provided through the upper edge of the door assembly. In the case of a shower partition of this kind, the purpose to be accomplished is to simplify vertical adjustment of the door assembly at low structural cost, and to ensure that the adjusted position is reliably secured. For this purpose each eccentric pin is slid in an elongated slot of the door assembly through an end opening. Also provided is a connector member having arms which bear upon opposite engagement surfaces of the eccentric pin in order to secure the latter against rotation.

Abstract: A sliding door mechanism for closing an aperture in a wall comprises an elongate support, a hanger pivotally connected to the support and arranged to be fixed to the door, and an arm on the support extending in the length direction thereof and carrying spaced apart first rollers. A track which, in use, is fixed to the wall, receives the first rollers. A guide rail mounted on the track. Second rollers are mounted on the support for engaging the guide rail. The arrangement is such that, in use, as the door reaches a closed position in which it closes the aperture from an open position in which the aperture is not obstructed by the door, the guide rail and second rollers causes the support to pivot about the contact points of the first rollers with the track and the hanger pivots relative to the support.

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 structure comprising movable doors for use in tub enclosures or shower stalls, each door having a frame and a panel mounted in the frame, and adjustment apparatus for raising or lowering one side of the door to compensate for out-of-plumb wall conditions, the adjustment apparatus comprising a pair of complementary adjustment members slidably inter-engaged along edges oblique with respect to the upper edge of the doorframe, a lower adjustment member being affixed to the doorframe and an upper adjustment member having a hanger assembly integral therewith provided with rollers or glides adapted to move on a track provided on a supporting doorframe or header.

Abstract: An edge mould (36) in the form of an aluminium extrusion, has a male portion (104) and a female portion (106), the latter being defined by at least legs (105, 109). The mould, when attached to a panel edge, enables the panel to be reversible, the male and female portions of abutting moulds mating to locate the two moulds and panels and to provide a sound and drought seal at the join between two panels. The male portion (104) may have a seal (132) in a channel (108) to assist in sealing abutting moulds. Panels using such edge moulds may be used in operable wall systems and in shopfitting systems.

Abstract: A device for suspending and guiding an oblique-displacement sliding door, especially for railroad cars, comprises a rolling element which is attached to the door by means of a connecting member (4) and comprises two rollers (Gs, Gi) mounted within a tubular guide track (6). The rolling surfaces (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) of the guide track (6) are located in oppositely-facing relation on each side of the connecting member (4) and at an oblique angle with respect to this latter. The profiles of the two rolling surfaces and of the two rollers are adapted to each other so as to prevent translational displacement of the rolling element (2) in a plane transverse to the guide track (6).

Abstract: To each panel is associated a panel suspension and guiding arrangement which comprises rollers cooperating with at least one guiding rail and through which the panel is slidably supported on the door frame. An extension of the guiding rails laterally beyond the door frame is avoided, in closing position of the door, through the provision of the panel suspension and guiding arrangement which is constructed to comprise a fixed guiding rail along which moves at least one roller movable with the panel, and a guiding rail movable with the panel and displaceable over a roller fixed in position. Such an arrangement facilitates the transportation, the handling and the mounting of doors, namely fully equipped landing doors, whether they be of the central opening or telescopic panel type.

Abstract: A guiding system for movable suspended partition walls comprising a main guide rail and two or more branch guide rails each extending from one side of the main guide rail to define two or more directional change points, a plurality of retainers movably disposed within the guide rails and suspending therefrom a plurality of partition walls, and guide members to select directions of movement of the retainers so that selected one or ones only among the retainers can move from the main guide rail into a selected one of the branch guide rails or vice versa without bringing the retainers to a stop at the directional change points.

Abstract: There is disclosed a door or wall construction which comprises vertically spaced upper and lower horizontal frame members and horizontally spaced vertical side frame members coupled with the upper and lower frame members to define a rectangular frame. A panel is joined with the lower frame member and side frame members to define a lower door portion. All of the frame members comprise elongate channels having substantially identical transverse, U-shaped cross sectional-dimensions and are oriented with open faces of the U-shaped cross sections facing inwardly, which open faces are dimensioned for embracing at least outer edge portions of the panel. A novel grill structure is also disclosed which forms an upper door portion. The grill structure comprises a plurality of vertically oriented, horizontally spaced elongate rods and a pair of elongate, U-shaped channels dimensioned for embracing and overlying the respective inwardly facing surfaces of the upper frame member and the second intermediate frame member.

Abstract: There is disclosed a door framing system for a barn door or the like wherein a plurality of horizontal and vertical frame members are joined together to define a generally rectilinear frame structure. All of the frame members are fabricated from sustantially U-shaped channel members of similar cross-section, such that they may be cut from stock material of said U-shaped cross-section. Corner joining brackets are employed which include a pair of transversely disposed base sections, with spaced side flanges extending from each said base section to provide a U-shaped surface configuration which will embrace the outer side faces of the frame members. The brackets including clamping means for coupling the brackets to the respective frame members.

Abstract: A sliding door is constructed with a rectangular metal framework of C-frame channel rail sections joined at their corners. A plurality of vertically spaced horizontal reinforcing struts join the frame side rails. The top rail of the door is slidingly hung from a track by hangers including hanger brackets. The bottom frame rail is held in position by a guide track. A thin siding panel and other structure is secured to the front flanges of the framework. Twisting of the top rail, caused by the forwardly offset weight of the front mounted structure including the siding panel, is prevented by braces connected between the top rail rear flange immediately adjacent the hanger brackets and the rear flange of the next lowermost horizontal strut. Wind-caused twisting of the bottom rail and resultant disengagement from its guide track is prevented by braces connected between the rear flanges of the bottom rail and the next uppermost horizontal strut.

Abstract: A guide structure for a door assembly of the type including a door member, an endless chain member coupled to the door, and a drive mechanism for drawing the chain member to cause the door member to move between opened and closed positions. The guide structure includes an elongated metal body for receiving the span portions of the chain member, and plastic guide members positioned within the body for guidingly engaging the chain member to assure a smooth, quiet operation of the door assembly with no metal-to-metal contact.

Abstract: Device for operating a sliding door comprising an endless chain guided over at least two wheels in a plane parallel to the plane of the door, said chain being provided with at least one catch which can co-operate with at least one abutment connected to the door for opening and/or closing said door. The guiding wheels of the chain being positioned such that the direction of movement of the catch has a relatively large vertical component at the beginning of the movement of the door.

Abstract: A movable device for restraining freight in a cargo area in a freight transporting vehicle, for use with a track extending along the cargo area at the top side portions of the vehicle. The device includes an upright stanchion having a vertically extending cargo restraining surface on one side normal to the track. A carriage rolls along the track to permit moving the restraining device to a desired position, and locking pins secure the stanchion in that position. A yoke connects the carriage with the stanchion, to provide a support framework for the stanchion that is rigid throughout its entire extent, in the vertical plane that passes through the center of gravity of the stanchion and is normal to the track, from the rollers of the carriage, along the roller axle and any supporting structure, along the yoke member, and across the stanchion to the vertical plane that passes through the center of gravity of the stanchion and is parallel to the track.

Abstract: A guide rail for a sliding door on an automotive vehicle is located along, under and adjacent to the weather strip which surrounds a rear side window. The weather strip is integrally formed with a lip along its lower edge, in the longitudinal direction thereof so that the lip can seal the gap formed between the rear quarter panel of the vehicle and the guide rail. It is desirable to provide a thin plate covering over at least one outer wall of the guide rail after the painting process. The covering is made of a lustrous material such as stainless steel or a plastic which can be easily colored.

Abstract: A sliding door construction including a door provided with rollers at its upper edge, which rollers are supported for rolling along a V-shaped portion of a guide rail having recesses adjacent the locations of the rollers in the closed position of the door for moving the door slightly downwards and towards the wall just before reaching its closed position. The guide rail is provided at one block for arresting the sliding movement of the door and a detachable cover for concealing the rollers and the upper edge of the door from view.

Abstract: A self-plumbing, counter-rotating trolley and track suspension system for supporting an operable wall panel is disclosed. The suspension system comprises a trolley assembly, including a pendant bolt to provide a common axle on which a pair of counter-rotating discs are rotatably mounted in spaced apart alignment. The track-contacting surface of each disc is spherically formed, with each surface generated from a common centerpoint but having unequal radii so that the surfaces generated by the radii have curvatures which are similar but are not congruent. The suspension system also includes a track having a pair of vertically spaced and diametrically arranged rails, each rail defining a cylindrical surface which is generated from the same common centerpoint of that of the discs, the locus of which lies above the rail-contacting surface of the upper disc.

Abstract: A modular sheet metal door structure consists of a plurality of upright modules of the same length which are fixedly connected to one another and have coplanar main webs forming one face of the door. A sheet metal sheath fixedly connected to side webs of the modules forms the other face of the door and has upright marginal portions which closely embrace the modules to form upright door sides. Identical sheet metal header means are fixedly secured to the ends of the modules to provide the ends of the door, and the header means are constructed to be detachably connected to stems by which the door may be suspended from track-mounted carriages for sidewise movement with either end of the door up.

Abstract: A slidable door assembly for opening and closing an opening or entranceway including a hanger plate having hanger and up-thrust rollers thereon, a door panel fixed to the hanger plate, and a support structure disposed above the door opening. The support structure includes a hanger track upon which the hanger rollers travel, and a horizontally oriented guide or bearing surface which co-acts with the up-thrust rollers. A door stabilizer is fixed to the door panel, adjacent to its trailing edge, with reference to its closing movement, which includes a roller whose rotational axis is disposed outside the vertical projection of the door panel. The roller of the door stabilizer co-acts with a guide surface, which may be the same guide surface used by the up-thrust rollers, to protect the up-thrust rollers from excessive force, and prevent untracking of the hanger rollers, when a force is applied to the leading edge of the door panel.

Abstract: A gate assembly including an upstanding frame member, an elongated main support member affixed to the frame member, an elongated intermediate support member capable of telescoping into the main support member, the intermediate support member including vertically disposed, spaced support sections, a plurality of rollers mounted on the vertical support sections, the rollers being rotatable on horizontal shafts extending from the vertical support sections, certain of the rollers extending slightly above the top edges of the vertical support sections and other of the rollers extending slightly below the bottom edges of the vertical support sections, an elongated inner support member having a generally T-shaped cross section with the top portion of the T member being disposed in a generally horizontal position, the inner support member being capable of telescoping into the intermediate support section, the horizontal portion of the T member having a thickness slightly smaller than the vertical spacing between the

Abstract: A pocket door assembly including a header structure which comprises a first element which is generally planar and generally horizontal. Second, third, fourth and fifth elements are each generally planar and each depend from the first element in sequential generally parallel spaced relationship. A roller support channel has a generally J-shaped cross section. The roller support channel depends from the first element. A door is generally planar and a plurality of rollers extend upwards beyond the top of the door. The rollers are spaced a predetermined distance apart. The second and third elements include a plurality of slots spaced the predetermined distance apart and allow passage of the rollers into the roller support channel.

Abstract: A corner connector arrangement is disclosed for use in joining like vertical and horizontal frame sections for use in framing panels in the assembly of sliding doors. The connector, comprised of two clamp sections and having protrusions bearing against the frame sections, is easily attached to any corner thereof, securing said frame section with a clamping engagement.

Abstract: A hanger bracket is disclosed for supporting and connecting sound absorption panels wherein the panels have a top frame member with a depending lip portion. The hanger bracket is usable for both fixed and movable sound absorption walls. The hanger bracket is comprised of two substantially identical bracket members having upper and lower generally vertical plates residing in offset substantially parallel planes. The bracket members are connected to each other, and to the support member, by connector means at the upper vertical plates. The lower plates have at least one punched-out tab portion extending generally inwardly then upwardly which engage the depending lip of the panel frame to thereby support the panel.The hanger bracket is attachable to both a fixed support member and to a movable trolley support member. A fixed sound absorption wall having one or more sound absorbing panels is provided wherein the hanger bracket supports the panels and is secured to a fixed support member.

Abstract: Sliding door, meant especially to be used in fire protection or insulation, whereby the sliding door comprises a framework consisting of a number of profiles on which framework panels are attached.

Abstract: An elevator system including an elevator car having an entranceway, a door having one or more door panels mounted for movement to open and close the entranceway, a door operator for the door, and mounting hardware for mounting the door operator on top of the elevator car. The mounting hardware provides horizontal and vertical adjustment of the door operator, with all adjustments being easily made from the top of the car. When the elevator car has a two-speed door, the high and low speed hanger tracks are horizontally spaced from one another, and they are mounted outside of the vertical projection of the door operator frame. The door hanger plates for both the high and low speed door panels are disposed between the hanger roller tracks. The spacing between the high and low speed roller tracks enables the hanger plates and door panels to be placed in position, or to be removed, from the top of the car.

Abstract: A suspension system primarily designed for use with operable walls and partitions can be constructed utilizing a plurality of identical tracks joined together in a system having a junction between such tracks and a trolley which is movable along the tracks and across the junction. Each of the tracks includes a pair of first spaced, parallel flanges and a second pair of spaced, parallel flanges located beneath the first pair. The trolley includes a bearing plate carrying a plurality of downwardly extending spherical bearings and a support plate located parallel to and underneath the bearing plate and the downwardly extending bearings. The trolley is adapted to be positioned in any of the tracks with bearings on the trolley supporting the trolley on the first pair of parallel flanges and with the support plate being located between the pairs of flanges.

Abstract: A system consisting of a door closure and door hanger which are integrated to achieve improved operation and simple construction and particularly characterized by a single action pneumatic cylinder and an internal return spring coiled around the piston rod to achieve pneumatic opening of the sliding doors and spring closing of the latter respectively in combination with novel track units featuring removing the load on the balls when the doors are in closed position and shorter track units less subject to longitudinal deflection of the passenger vehicle. The return spring is taken advantage of to produce unhurting impact and closure force at the end of the closing course and to eliminate the sealing requirements around the piston rod at the corresponding end of the pneumatic cylinder.

Abstract: An elevator system including an elevator car having an entranceway, a door having one or more door panels mounted for movement to open and close the entranceway, a door operator for the door, and mounting hardware for mounting the door operator on top of the elevator car. The mounting hardware provides horizontal and vertical adjustment of the door operator, with all adjustments being easily made from the top of the car. When the elevator car has a two-speed door, the high and low speed hanger tracks are horizontally spaced from one another, and they are mounted outside of the vertical projection of the door operator frame. The door hanger plates for both the high and low speed door panels are disposed between the hanger roller tracks. The spacing between the high and low speed roller tracks enables the hanger plates and door panels to be placed in position, or to be removed, from the top of the car.

Abstract: The system includes a plurality of movable heat insulating shutter sections forming a barrier to produce a "dead air gap" adjacent the interior of a window and increasing the heat insulation capacity of the windows. The sections are suspended by wheels, rollers or gliding fittings from guide tracks situated above the shutters and are movable therealong between opened and closed positions. The sections are provided with vertical and horizontal friction or pressure seals which, when the sections are in the closed position, seal the sections together and to the window embracement. The tracks and the suspending fittings are formed such that the sections can be pendulum-like pivoted away from the window in order to disengage the pressure of the seals and thus facilitate movement of the sections between the open and closed positions without friction at these seals.

Abstract: A structure comprising by-pass doors each having a frame and a panel mounted within the frame, the doors being suspended from a track by means of hangers each having a roller pivotally mounted at one end thereof supported and guided on a track, the hanger comprising a mounting shank engaged in a channel of the door frame with an elongate slot provided in the shank having a screw disposed within the slot and engaged in an aperture provided in the door frame, thereby adjustably securing the hanger to the door frame.

Abstract: An elevator system including an elevator car, an elevator door, and a door operator for operating the door to open and close an entranceway to the car. The door has integral hanger brackets which are fastened to a hanger plate associated with the door operator. The door may be easily mounted, oriented and aligned in the field by a fastening arrangement and method which includes clamping bolts and jacking bolts. The clamping bolts are adjusted to initially support the weight of the door. Jacking bolts are then coupled between the hanger bracket and hanger plate, and the jacking bolts are actuated to align the door and set the sill gap. The clamping bolts are then tightened to maintain the selected alignment and sill gap. The clamping bolts, jacking bolts and the frictional area contact between the clamped surfaces all co-operate to support the weight of the door, and the clamped surfaces additionally function to add structural stiffness to the door and its support.

Abstract: A partition wall for wet chambers, particularly for bathrooms or stall showers with several wall panels which are slidable either with each other or with respect to each other with each wall panel suspended in an upper guide rail with sliding or roller guides and with the lower guide ledges of the panels guided in a lower closed guide member, shaped with step-like guide rails on top of each other. In a preferred form the upper suspension of each wall panel is positioned outside the line of the center of gravity of the wall panel.

Abstract: A structural support mounting means for precision, telescoping, linear slide mechanisms of the type having an outer slide member and an inner slide member, each being held in sliding relationship by ball bearings or the like, the balls being operably disposed in a ball retainer between the inner and outer slide members. The structural support mounting means is defined by an elongated rail having oppositely disposed channels formed longitudinally therein, to structurally support and receive a pair of oppositely arranged slide mechanisms, wherein each adjacent slide member is affixed to a central, load-carrying bracket for longitudinal movement of the load secured to the bracket thereof, and wherein an elongated, structural-reinforcing bar member is adapted to be received and fixedly mounted within the inner slide member.

Abstract: A suspension system for operable partitions providing for several degrees of lost motion freedom, wherein the suspension system comprises an overhead track, a series of discrete panels, and a pair of carriers for each panel to suspend the respective panels individually from the track for movement of the panels between the point of use and a storage area that is remote from the space being subdivided, with each panel having a trackway along its upper end mounting a pair of trolleys that are connected one each to the respective carriers for the panel, for movement of the panel in its plane relative to the carrier supporting it.

Abstract: A hanger is disclosed for supporting sound absorption panels wherein the panels have a top frame member with a depending lip portion. The hanger has a horizontal portion and a vertically downwardly depending portion, with the vertically downwardly depending portion having an upwardly and inwardly formed portion which can engage the depending lip of the frame of the panel to support the panel while the horizontal portion of the hanger is attached to supporting means. The formed portions can be useful in holding together abutting panels.A horizontally movable sound absorption wall is disclosed having one or more sound absorption panels supported by a top frame member, a hanger attached to the top frame member, and a track and guiding means for guiding the hanger along the track.

Abstract: An elevator system including an elevator car, a passenger opening in the elevator car, a door operable between open and closed positions relative to the passenger opening, and a door operator for the door. The door operator includes a drive motor, a drive for imparting linear motion to the door, speed control and limit switches, associated door control, and various accessory equipment, such as emergency lighting control, alarm bell, and control for object sensing door re-opening devices, all mounted within a common enclosure on the top of the elevator car, which permits open wiring between the electrical components. The common enclosure also functions as the hanger roller track and up thrust roller guide.

Abstract: An assembly of a track member for suspended doors designed for ceiling or door opening header mounting having a separate fascia member mechanically interlocking therewith and secured in place and laterally supported by a spring member.

Abstract: A warp resistant fire door structure is disclosed, which includes a frame and a pair of front and back panels mounted thereon. The panels are secured permanently to the frame only at points adjacent their lateral edges. At other points, the panels are heat releasably bonded to the frame to be able to expand and contract relative to the frame in the presence of ambient temperature extremes.

Abstract: Two sliding doors are supported to hang vertically, without floor guides for their lower edges, by offsetting the planes of the doors relative to the planes of the supporting tracks in directions so that the lower portions of the doors press towards each other. Intermediate doors, in three or more door assemblies, may be supported to hang vertically. Arms, attached to doors and supporting rollers bearing on the tracks, are interfingered, thereby avoiding general arm interference and maintaining lapping of doors.

Abstract: An alignment device for bi-fold doors is provided which consists of wedge-shaped members fastened to the bottom of the door. The complimentary wedge-shaped members engage each other and pull the bottom edge of the door into alignment and are substantially invisible from either side of the door.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a trench revetment device which includes a hollow post having a wall facing the interior of a trench and with the wall having a generally centrally disposed slot therein. A guiding head is carried by the post for receiving the end of one or more bracing studs and to position such braking stud or studs longitudinally of the post. The guiding head includes a head member disposed within the post and carrying sets of rollers facing in opposite directions and engaging opposite surfaces of the slotted wall. The head member also carries a support element for mounting a bracing stud with the support element extending through the slot.