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US 12,460,463 B2Granted
Shower door guide assembly
AssigneeLiberty Hardware Mfg. Corp.
InventorThomas Simek
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Abstract
A guide assembly for a sliding shower door is provided with a bracket sized to be fastened to a shower door opening. The bracket has a first lengthwise retainer. A guide with a second lengthwise retainer is sized to be retained by the first lengthwise retainer of the bracket. The guide has at least one channel formed therein and is sized to receive a shower door pane within the channel for translation of the shower door pane relative to the guide.
Claims18
A shower door assembly comprising:
- a track sized to extend across a shower door opening;
- a shower door pane sized to cooperate with the track for translation relative to the track, wherein the shower door pane has a range of clearance relative to the track for installation and disassembly of the shower door pane relative to the track;
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- a guide sized to be installed to the shower door opening, the guide having at least one channel formed therein to receive the shower door pane for translation relative to the guide, wherein a depth of the channel exceeds the range of clearance of the shower door pane relative to the track;
- a bracket sized to be fastened to the shower door opening, the bracket having a first lengthwise retainer;
- and wherein the guide further comprises a second lengthwise retainer sized to be retained by the first lengthwise retainer of the bracket;
- and a pair of side plates, each sized to be fastened to an end of the guide or the bracket to limit translation of the guide relative to the bracket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.