Slide/swing patio door

Abstract

An apparatus and method for a slide/swing patio door including a frame having a first panel pivotally mounted on the frame and a second panel slidingly mounted in the frame in a plane adjacent to the first panel. The second panel slides toward the first panel until they are substantially congruent, at which time the first and second panels can be selectively moved out of the frame around a pivot of the first panel. Another embodiment includes a latch to couple the first panel and the second panel together before the panels can be moved around the pivot. An additional embodiment provides a lock pin mounted on the first panel configured to engage a box staple mounted on the frame. In addition, another embodiment further includes a guide mounted on the first panel aligned to engage the second panel, wherein the second panel is guided alongside of the first panel and supported by the guide on the first panel during movement around the pivot.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.