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US 4,072,179 AGranted
Structure adapted to be successively drawn and telescoped
OwnerHan-Ichiro Naitoinventor
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Abstract
A structure comprising a plurality of partition members in sheet form each providing a pair of spaced opposite partition faces connected at one side and non-connected at the other side. These partition members are grouped into a telescoped assembly by guiding each of them into the internal space of another when not in use. When in use, the partition members are successively drawn from the telescoped assembly to provide continuous partition faces of a partition between two compartments of a room, sliding door or a window shutter.
Claims14
A telescopable paritition comprising:
- a plurality of partition members all of substantially the same size and configuration and each in sheet form and each having a pair of spaced opposing partition faces joined together along one respective side of each and unjoined at their other sides,
- each said partition member having the spacing between its opposed faces increasing gradually from its joined edges toward its unconnected edges to thereby permit telescoping of one of said member into the next,
- guide means for supporting said partition members and permitting movement of said members between a first drawn position in which the joined sides of one said member lie adjacent to the unconnected sides of an adjoining member to a second telescoped position in which said joined sides of said one member lie adjacent to said joined sides of said adjoining member,
- and means for limiting the distance between said joined sides of a pair of adjoining members to a predetermined amount when said members are telescoped one into the other.
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A telescopable partition comprising:
- a plurality of partition members all of substantially the same size and configuration and each in sheet form and each having a pair of spaced opposing partition faces,
- each said partition member having resilient connecting means which joins said opposed partition faces along a respective side of each face and tends to maintain said opposed faces generally parallel to each other when said partition members are in their non-telescoped state, said opposed partition faces being unjoined at their other sides,
- guide means for supporting said partition members and permitting movement of said members between a first drawn position in which the joined sides of one said member lie adjacent to the unconnected sides of an adjoining member and to a second telescoped position in which said joined sides of said one member lie adjacent to said joined sides of said adjoining member,
- and means for limiting the distance between said joined sides of a pair of adjoining members to a predetermined amount when said members are telescoped one into the other,
- said resilient connecting means acting when said partition members are telescoped each into the next to permit said opposed faces to diverge outwardly and thereby permit the close telescoping of all said partition members into a relatively small space.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.