Integrated sliding door/panel system
AssigneeDirtt Environmental Solutions Ltd.
InventorsGeoff Gosling, Mogens Smed
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Abstract
A sliding door apparatus for opening and closing an opening in a wall, including a longitudinally extending track member mountable along an upper edge of the opening; a door movably mountable on the track member for side to side movement thereon between an opened and closed position; and damping means disposed within the track member actuatable in response to the side to side movement of the door to break the door's movement as it approaches its fully opened and closed positions.
Claims23
A sliding door apparatus for opening and closing an opening in a wall, comprising:
- a longitudinally extending track member mountable along an upper edge of said opening;
- a door movably mountable on said track member for side to side movement thereon between an opened and closed position;
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- damping means disposed within said track member actuatable in response to said side to side movement of said door to brake said door's movement as it approaches its fully opened and closed positions.
Apparatus for absorbing the energy of a moving object, said apparatus comprising:
- a housing having a piston chamber formed therein;
- a piston disposed in said chamber for axial movement therein;
- a plug member held in said piston chamber in opposed relation to said piston, said plug member creating a fully or partially air-tight seal with said piston chamber;
- means interconnecting said piston to said moving object, wherein movement of said object moves said piston towards said plug member which compresses air between said piston and said plug member to absorb the moving object's energy.
Apparatus for suspending a sliding door for opening and closing an opening in a wall, said apparatus comprising:
- a stringer member for connection along an upper edge of said opening, said stringer member having an axially aligned channel therein formed along at least a portion of said stringer's length;
- a track member having a longitudinally extending flange member thereon adapted to engage said channel in said stringer to connect said track member to said stringer member without the use of fasteners;
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- a door adapted to be suspended from said track member for side to side movement of said door relative to said track member.
A method for suspending a sliding door for opening and closing and opening in a wall, said method comprising the steps of:
- connecting a stringer member to an upper edge of said opening, said stringer member having a channel extending longitudinally therein along at least portions of said stringer member's length;
- connecting a track member to said stringer member without the use of fasteners, said connecting step comprising inserting a flange member on said track member into said channel to secure said track member to said stringer member;
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- suspending said sliding door from said track member by aligning rollers on said door in a roller channel in said track member so that said door can move from side to side relative to said track member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.