Shower door assembly
AssigneeLiberty Hardware Mfg. Corp.
InventorsThomas SIMEK, Nathaniel Faltin Dutton SCHULTZ
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Abstract
A shower door assembly is provided with a shower door pane, and a track with a side opening. A pair of wheels is mounted for rotation upon the shower door pane. Each of the pair of wheels is sized to be received in the track for translation along the track. A diameter of each of the pair of wheels is greater than a vertical dimension of the side opening to prevent removal of the pair of wheels from the track while in a vertical orientation, and to permit the pair of wheels to be removed in an angled orientation.
Claims20
A shower door assembly comprising:
- a track with a side opening;
- a shower door pane;
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- a pair of wheels mounted for rotation upon the shower door pane, each of the pair of wheels sized to be received in the track for translation along the track, wherein a diameter of each of the pair of wheels is greater than a vertical dimension of the side opening to prevent removal of the pair of wheels from the track while in a vertical orientation, and to permit the pair of wheels to be removed in an angled orientation.
A shower door assembly comprising:
- a track with a side opening;
- a shower door pane;
- a pair of posts connected to the shower door pane;
- a pair of wheels each mounted for rotation upon one of the pair of posts, each of the pair of wheels sized to be received in the track for translation along the track, wherein limited clearance for the pair of wheels in the side opening prevents removal of the pair of wheels from the track while in a vertical orientation;
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- a guide provided at a lower end of the shower door pane and sized to receive the shower door pane for translation relative thereto;
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- wherein a distance from each post to an outer diameter of the corresponding wheel is less than an overlap between the guide and a bottom of the shower door pane to limit disengagement of the pair of wheels from the track in the vertical orientation.
A method to assemble a shower door assembly, the method comprising:
- installing a track to a shower stall;
- angling a shower door pane away from a vertical orientation;
- installing wheels of the shower door pane into the track;
- pivoting the shower door pane to the vertical orientation;
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- installing a guide to limit the shower door pane to the vertical orientation to avoid removal of the shower door pane from the track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.