Abstract: A spacer that attaches to a window sash in order to create an improved window construction. The window construction has a window frame with side tracks. A window sash is set within the side tracks of the window frame. Gap spaces exist between the window sash and the side tracks. To prevent cocking, spacers are provided. The spacers attached to the sides of the window sash inside the tracks where the spacer is not visible. Each spacer has a base, a spring arm that extends from the base, and a contact head that is supported by the spring arm. The base is mounted to the window sash within a gap space. The spring arm extends into the gap space and biases the contact head toward the side track. The contact head also presents a physical barrier to lateral movement. This inhibits the sash from cocking within the window frame.

Abstract: A movable device for a movable body has a reception body fixed to a support body or the movable body relatively moving to the support body, and includes a plurality of engagement portions protruding from the support body or the movable body by being separated from each other; a base body provided in the other of the support body or movable body; an abutment body formed to move along a movement direction of the movable body, and engaging one of the engagement portions in a case wherein the movable body moves in a movement completion position thereof; and an urging mechanism formed urgingly between the base body and the abutment body, restricting a movement of the base body or abutment body by urging, and releasing restriction of the movement by engagement of the abutment body with one of engagement portions.

Abstract: A fenestration operation hardware assembly includes at least one latch mechanism and an operation hardware assembly configured for coupling with a panel slidable within a frame. The latch mechanism includes a latch bolt and a latch biasing element coupled with the latch bolt. An operator of the operation hardware assembly is remote from the latch mechanism and is coupled with the panel. The operator includes an operator interface feature movable between initial and operating positions. In the initial position the latch bolt is in a projecting position, and in the operating position the operator interface feature moves the latch bolt into one or more withdrawn positions. The operation hardware assembly includes a retention assembly for retaining the latch bolt in a withdrawn position.

Abstract: A safety gate has two frame assemblies, a shaft fixing assembly and a stretcher assembly. A relative distance between the two frame assemblies is fixed by the shaft fixing assembly first. The stretcher assembly further pushes the two frame assemblies outwardly so that the two frame assemblies tightly abut against two walls of a mounting premise and can be held on the walls securely. When the safety gate is not in use, the stretcher assembly is released to loosen the safety gate from the walls and the stretcher assembly can be moved to elsewhere. As the safety gate can be repeatedly mounted without having to readjust the relative distance between the two frame assemblies with the shaft fixing assembly, the operation of the safety gate is easy and convenient.

Abstract: A synchronous pull device for slide cover mechanism includes two guide members, two slide seats and two pull assemblies. Slide guide sections are disposed on each guide member, whereby the slide seats can slide along the slide guide sections. First connection ends and second connection ends are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the slide seats. Each pull assembly includes at least two idlers, a middle idler and a pull cord. The two idlers are positioned beside two different ends of two different slide guide sections on opposite sides of the two guide members. The middle idlers are disposed between the two guide members near two ends of the slide guide sections. Each pull cord sequentially goes from the first connection end of one of the slide seats through one idler, the middle idler and the other idler to connect with the second connection end of the other slide seat.

Abstract: A sliding lid of an electronic device can move between an open state and a closed state, and in the open state, the external connecting terminals are exposed. The sliding lid includes a plurality of projecting shafts that project from the outer peripheral portion and a projecting portion that is formed on the surface of the device main body. A jack holder is provided with first guide rails and second guide rails that are rail members that guide the sliding lid, where first guide rails correspond to the projecting shafts of the sliding lid and second guide rails correspond to the projecting portion. In a closed state, the projecting shafts respectively abut the rails. While the sliding lid moves from the closed state to the open state, a projecting shaft separates from the first guide rails and the projecting portion slides to abut the second guide rails.

Abstract: An automatic closing assembly for a sliding door has a base, an adjusting device and a housing. The base is mounted on the sliding door and has a mounting bracket and a connecting frame. The connecting frame is mounted on the mounting bracket and has a damper barrel. The adjusting device is connected to the base and has a handle, a screw shaft, and a resilient device. The handle is rotatably connected to the base and rotates the screw shaft. The resilient device moveably engages the screw shaft and is selectively retracted by rotation thereof. The housing is telescopically connected to the base, is mounted around the adjusting device and comprises two tubes connected respectively to ends of the resilient device to transmit a returning force to the door.

Abstract: A one-piece sunshade assembly for covering a vehicle sunroof includes guide flanges and a handle integrated into a sunshade panel that covers the sunroof. The guide flanges, handle, and sunshade panel are all formed from the same molding process to form the one-piece sunshade assembly from a plastic material such as polypropylene. An occupant of the vehicle grasps the handle that is molded to be recessed in the sunshade panel to slide the panel and cover and uncover the sunroof. The guide flanges extend from the sunshade panel to slidably engage guide rails and guide the panel as it is slid.

Abstract: The sliding device for a sliding panel comprises:a) a support which is shaped in or attached to the bottom portion of the panel, said support having a downwardly open upside-down U-shape;b) an oscillating arm secured to the support about a pivot axis which is horizontal and which extends transversely relative to the U-shape;c) sliding means fixed towards the free end of the oscillating arm;d) a pivoting cam which is secured to the support by a first axis of rotation and bears against the oscillating arm; ande) an adjustment screw which is fixed relative to the support and whose displacement serves to adjust the angle of rotation of the cam by means of a linkage between the cam and the adjustment screw.It may also include means for locking the oscillating arm in position relative to the support whenever the sliding means is in its high position within the support.

Abstract: A sliding panel includes a frame having top, bottom and side members. Expanders rotatably supporting rollers are partially disposed within the top and bottom members and are displaceable against spring tension inwardly and outwardly of said members. Clips are provided for retaining the expanders partially disposed within the top and bottom members and for limiting the outward displacement of the expanders. The arrangement described provides self-leveling of the rollers along the entire width of the panel.

Abstract: A side adjustable roller assembly for a sliding door comprises a housing containing a rotatable cam and a wheel carriage with a guide wheel mounted therein pivotally attached to the housing. The assembly is insertable into a recess in the edge of a door, being held therein by a slot in one end of the housing, and by a bend in a strip of spring steel attached to the housing at the other end which engage opposite ends of the recess, respectively. Contact of the cam surface with that of the wheel carriage controls the distance that the carriage can be pivoted into the recess by the door's weight, against the force of an associated spring urging the carriage away from the recess. The point of engagement of the cam surface with the carriage, and therefore the distance between the door's edge and the surface over which it is mounted, depends upon the degree of the cam's rotation, determined by adjustment of cam mounting trunions which can be accessed from the side of the housing.

Abstract: A vertical sliding door for a compartment within the main door of a refrigerator. A frame is positioned adjacent the front of the door liner and has opposing vertical U-shaped channels. The sliding door includes a cover portion having laterally extending vertical runners that are slidably engaged in the respective channels. Each of the runners has a pair of notches into which glide members are snapped. Each of the glide member has a mid portion boss that extends laterally beyond the runner edge to provide a smooth bearing surface for engagement with the U-shaped channel. In the open position, at least one of the glide member bosses is received in a detent to hold the compartment door open.

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.

Abstract: A unitary vent guide for a metal vent frame in a metal window jamb is formed from a resilient and self-lubricating plastic such as nylon and includes a body portion which snaps into a slot in the vertical faces of the vent frame. An outer portion of the body is formed as a tension arm which contacts an inner vertical face of the jamb. A plurality of the guides is installed on each vertical vent frame face and maintains the vent frame centered.

Abstract: A system of sliding doors commonly called patio-doors, having a wooden structure and well adapted for a household use. This device comprises a wooden rectangular frame receiving two glazed panels, one of which is sliding. The latter is supported on its lower portion by rollers. In the upper portion of the movable panel, the guiding system is constituted by a spring-loaded runner, preferably a channel whose two flanges extend into two parallel grooves on the top of the slidable panel. To remove the sliding panel from the frame supporting it, the operator lowers the retractable runner; this releases the upper portion of the panel from the frame and allows it to swing outwardly. A safety device is provided to prevent accidental removal of the upper portion of the sliding panel from the frame. Also described is a patio-door unit comprising two sets of glazed panels, each having one sliding panel.

Abstract: A holder 10 for a sash 11 running in a resin jamb liner 12 applies adjustable friction to a track 20 in the sash plow region of the sash run of the jamb liner. Track 20 has parallel edge guides 21 that are L-shaped in cross section to project from the sash run and extend toward each other. Holder 10 includes a carriage 25 that fits within the plow 19 of sash 11, and carriage 25 has a pair of runners 27 and 28 whose lateral edges are trapped under guides 21 to confine the runners to vertical movement along the track. Carriage 25 also has a friction shoe 35 variably pressed against the sash run surface of the track by an adjustment screw 15. Balance spring 13 pulls upward on carriage 25; and platform 26, connected to carriage 25 by adjustment screw 15, straddles plow 19 and supports the lower corner of sash 11. Screw 15 adjusts the friction of holder 10 within the sash run by the pressure it applies to friction shoe 35.

Abstract: A positioner for a movable window sash embodies a guide bracket carried by the sash with one side of the guide bracket spaced from and facing an adjacent side of a window frame and extending in a plane which is inclined relative to a plane extending in the direction of movement of the sash with the opposite side of the guide bracket being parallel to said one side thereof. A wedge-like member has a first surface in sliding engagement with said one side of the guide bracket. A second surface of the wedge-like member extends parallel to and faces the adjacent side of a window frame and is movable into and out of engagement with the window frame in response to sliding movement of the wedge-like member in opposite directions. An actuator mounted for sliding movement along said opposite side of the guide bracket is operatively connected to the wedge-like member to move it in opposite directions. A resilient member urges the wedge-like member into engagement with the adjacent side of the window frame.

Abstract: A thermal shutter device with vertical travel for use in combination with a window unit comprising a window frame & glass panels mounted in the window frame which is installed in a building outer periphery walls such as a dwelling, this device which is a thermal insulation construction comprising at least two thermal shutters with vertical travel & means to seal said thermal shutter device to create a sealed chamber between shutter device & window construction, the shutters can be of laminate construction with rigid insulation mounted in vertical track allowing shutters to slide up & down on compressible insulation slide means, when in closed mode they will greatly reduce heat transfer or infiltration either direction through said window construction, therefore reducing energy used to heat or cool said building, therefore helping our countries energy conservation program.

Abstract: A stationary window frame slidably mounts a pair of sash assemblies that are retained in the frame by fixed retainer bars limited to the lower half of the frame and by a pivotally suspended retainer for the upper half. The sash assemblies may be removed from the frame in their raised positions after displacement of the pivoted retainer to a release position.

Abstract: An adjustable auxiliary window element is provided for easy installation in and removal from a window frame, and particularly for use as a storm window device. The auxiliary window element includes a window pane which is perimetrically encased in side, top and bottom channel members, and four corner members, and a pair of cover channel members, each adjustable disposed so as to cover two corner members and a side channel and adapted to snugly fit in a window frame. The corner members have resilient members secured thereto which bias said cover channel members outwardly.

Abstract: An adjustable supporting roller device has a roller bracket pivoted on a mounting bracket to be attached to an object to be supported, and a novel combination lead screw and follower assembly for releasibly securing the roller bracket in retracted position during handling and shipment of the object and adjustably extending the roller bracket for use.

Abstract: A window construction comprising a master frame and a pair of glazed window sashes which are double-hung in the window frame for normal operation and are provided with means to permit inward tilting of the sashes for cleaning and servicing of the same as may be required. The master window frame and both of the sashes mounted therein are each formed of an assembly of sections having the same hollow cross-sectional shape throughout the lengths thereof to provide not only the master frame but also each sash with a perimetrally continuous plenum of confined air which effectively serves as a thermal insulating barrier. Each of the window sashes is fitted on its opposite side edges with hollow thermal insulating spring-pressed weatherstripping members which respectively resiliently engage and made weather-tight contact with vertically extending runways provided therefor in the opposite side rail members of the master frame.

Abstract: A roller assembly is provided for a sliding screen door, and the like, which includes a housing adapted to be supported as a friction fit in an opening in the edge of the door, and which also includes a roller supported in the housing. The roller may be spring-biased by a flat spring member which constitutes a resilient support for the roller and which is hooked into the housing.

Abstract: A screen door is provided having a spring-loaded adjustable bonnet on the top side or bottom side thereof, or both, and which includes two adjustment means which permit the bonnet to be set at any desired displacement from the top side or bottom side of the door to fit the door to a variety of doorway heights. Each adjustment means includes a serrated corner lock member which fits into the door frame and which serves firmly to lock the adjacent corner of the door frame, the corner lock member including an integral bushing which fits between two aligned holes in the door frame. Each adjustment means also includes an internally-threaded, headed sleeve which extends through one of the holes from one side of the door into the bushing, and an externally-threaded bolt which extends through the other hole from the other side of the door into the bushing, the bolt being threaded into the sleeve.