Patents Assigned to Columbia Manufacturing Corporation
  • Patent number: 4899493
    Abstract: A roller assembly is provided as an easily replaceable assembly for use with a sliding door. The roller assembly includes a roller or wheel mounted in a roller housing and carried in a cantilevered manner at one end of a leaf spring. The opposite end of the leaf spring is permanently bent to form a hook which is engageable with a mounting tab on an upper or lower door edge through a mounting insertion gap in the door edge such that the leaf spring extends across a bearing tab. When the hook is engaged on the mounting tab the roller is carried in a roller receiving pocket in the door edge such that the leaf spring bears against a bearing tab. The leaf spring allows the roller to move into and out of a roller receiving pocket to accommodate imperfections and obstructions in a stationary track on the door frame in which the roller travels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Columbia Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: James E. Baumgarten
  • Patent number: 4873741
    Abstract: A sliding door roller apparatus includes a replaceable wheel assembly that can be easily removed and replaced on a holding member. The wheel assembly includes a resilient housing, a wheel, and an axle on which the wheel turns. The resilient housing has a pair of opposite facing sidewalls, each having an integral end portion that extends toward and overlaps the other. Each end portion includes at least one locking finger that is positionable within an opening on the holding member. The resiliency of the housing permits the locking fingers to be placed or removed from an opening located on the holding member.The apparatus also includes an adjustment mechanism that positions the wheel assembly outside the sliding door frame to permit the frame to be properly aligned within its door opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Columbia Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Harry Riegelman
  • Patent number: 3990183
    Abstract: Doors are slidably mounted in tracks by structure which cooperates with and follows the course of the tracks even around sharp corners and curves to permit sliding of the doors into out of the way storage positions. The sliding door assembly is illustrated forming a bathtub/shower enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: Columbia Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel H. Meggs, Janos Beny
  • Patent number: D300364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Columbia Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Harry M. Riegelman