Wardrobe or other container with folding doors
AssigneesDaiken Trade & Industry Co., Ltd., Murakoshi Screw Mfg. Co. Ltd.
InventorsKenji Ishizawa, Chiyokazu Higashi
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Abstract
A container assembly has two door sections of a folding door which are coupled together by means of hinges provided at upper and lower positions on the rear surfaces of the mutually adjacent inner vertical edge portions of the doors so that the doors can be folded, by pivotal motion, with the thus hinge-coupled inner-edge portions thereof protruding outwardly from the body, thus exposing the front opening of the body. Upper and lower movement enabling means mounted to each door section are movable on upper and lower rails of the body opening closed by the folding door.
Claims5
A container assembly comprising
- means defining a main body with a front opening, and having upper and lower portions,
- an upper rail mounted on the said upper portion,
- a lower rail mounted on the said lower portion,
- a pair of door sections arranged to close said front opening,
- hinge means connecting said door sections at adjacent vertical edges thereof,
- upper movement-enabling means mounted to each of the door sections and movable on the upper rail,
- lower movement-enabling means mounted to each of the door sections and movable on the lower rail,
- the movement-enabling means and the hinge means being so arranged that the door sections can fold so that the door sections protrude outwardly of the front opening to enable access to the container, and
- stop means provided at each end of at least one of said rails, said stop means serving releasably to retain the said movement-enabling means each said stop means comprising
- a frame secured to the corresponding said rail,
- a stop member,
- means mounting the stop member on the frame for horizontal turning motion, said stop member including
- a tapered guide portion,
- means defining a recess contiguous with the tapered guide portion,
- resilient means mounted on the frame of the stop means and biasing the stop member towards the corresponding rail,
- said movement-enabling means further comprising
- a shaft-like member extending substantially parallel to plane of the corresponding door section which shaft-like member can engage in the said recess after guidance along the tapered guide portion, the co-operation of the recess and the shaft-like member serving to retain the movement-enabling means on the stop means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.