Partition, more particularly for a corner or circular shower

A partition for a corner or circular shower, comprising:

• at least one stationary wall-element for connection to a wall,
• at least one guide-rail which is connected to said at least one wall-element and is carried by said wall-element, and extends over an entrance-area located at one side of said wall-element,
• at least one door-element movable along said guide-rail by means of a guide body in order to open and close said entrance area, said guide-rail and said door-element being curved,
• at least one pivot-lever having one end hinged to said at least one door-element adjacent an outer vertical longitudinal edge of said door-element, said pivot-lever, in a closed position of the door-element, lying adjacent, behind and substantially in parallel with said at least one wall-element, and said pivot-lever having another end remote from said door-element pivotally secured to said wall-element by means of a bearing-support,
• wherein said door-element comprises a guide-element, and wherein said partition rests on a shower-tub, said shower tub comprising a front edge associated with said entrance-area, said front edge being provided with an upwardly open guide-channel in which said guide-element engages.

A partition for a corner or circular shower, comprising:

• at least one stationary wall-element for connection to a wall,
• at least one curved guide-rail which is connected to said at least one wall-element and is carried by said wall-element, and extends over an entrance-area located at one side of said wall-element,
• at least one curved door-element movable along said guide-rail by means of a guide-body in order to open and close said entrance area,
• at least one pivot-lever having one end hinged to said at least one door-element adjacent an outer longitudinal edge of said door-element, said pivot-lever, in a closed position of the door-element, lying adjacent, behind and substantially in parallel with said at least one wall-element, and said pivot-lever having another end remote from said door-element pivotally secured to said wall-element by means of a bearing-support, wherein
• said door-element comprises a guide-element,
• said partition rests on a shower-tub, said shower-tub comprising a front edge associated with said entrance-area, said front edge being provided with an upwardly open guide-channel in which said guide-element engages,
• said guide-channel is concave and is arranged between a front part and an inner part of said front edge, said front part having an upper edge which is at a level higher than an inner edge of said inner part, said door-element having a lower edge which is at a level higher than said inner edge of said inner part but at a level lower than said upper edge of said front part,
• said inner part has a contour which is curved in a direction opposite the curvature of said concave guide-channel,
• said inner edge of said inner part is located vertically above the lowest point in said guide-channel, by an amount which is less by a factor 0.2 to 0.5 than the total depth of said guide-channel with respect to said upper edge,
• said inner part and said guide-channel extend horizontally at least over said entrance-area, said inner part having an end which is at a predetermined distance from an outer edge of said shower-tub, said front part extending so far as said outer edge of said shower-tub,
• said guide-element is narrow in a horizontal direction and is arranged at a lower end of a profiled rail of said door-element, and
• said guide-element comprises a flexible brush and is displaceable in a vertical direction, said brush being secured to and resiliently supported in said guide-part by means of springs.

A partition for a corner or circular shower comprising:

• two stationary wall-elements for connection to walls,
• a curved guide-rail connected to said two wall-elements and carried by said wall-elements and extending over an entrance-area located generally between said wall-elements,
• two curved door-elements movable along said guide-rail by means of respective guide bodies in order to open and close said entrance area,
• an upper guide-rail secured at an upper edge of each of said two wall-elements, said upper guide-rails being curved in said entrance-area forwardly into the exterior opposite an interior space delimited by said partition, each of said guide-rails comprising between the middle of said entrance-area and outer-edges of said wall-elements an inward bulge directed toward said interior space, said guide-rails thus having an undulating configuration,
• a pivot-lever provided for each door element, each pivot-lever having one end hinged to its respective door-element adjacent an outer longitudinal edge of said door-element and, in a closed position of the respective door-element, lying adjacent, behind and substantially in parallel with a respective one of said wall-elements, and each pivot-lever having another end remote from said respective door-element pivotally secured to said respective wall-element by means of a bearing-support, an axis at the hinge point of each pivot-lever being at a predetermined distance from a connecting line which runs between the guide-bodies of said guide-rails, said predetermined distance increasing at the beginning of the opening movement of the door-elements,
• each door-element comprising a bearing-part providing the hinging of said pivot-levers to said door-elements, each bearing-part being secured to an outer end of a corresponding door-element,
• each of said bearing-supports being located substantially centrally of a corresponding wall-element, and
• said inward bulges having centers located at said exterior, and said entrance-area having a center located at said interior space.