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 track with a cavity, and an opening providing access to a channel in the cavity that provides a track guide for receipt of the pair of wheels. A shower door pane is provided with a pair of wheels mounted for rotation upon the shower door pane. Each of the pair of wheels is sized to be received in the channel for translation along the track. A vertical clearance of each of the pair of wheels within the cavity is less than a depth of the channel 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 an opening;
- a shower door pane;
- and
- 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 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 cavity, and an opening providing access to a channel in the cavity that provides a track guide for receipt of a pair of wheels;
- a shower door pane;
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- the pair of wheels mounted for rotation upon the shower door pane, each of the pair of wheels sized to be received in the channel for translation along the track, wherein a vertical clearance of each of the pair of wheels within the cavity is less than or equal to a depth of the channel 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 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;
- and
- 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.