US 6,598,355 B2 · Anti-stacking system for operable walls

Abstract

An anti-stacking system for an operable wall includes a guide rail mounted on or adjacent to the track so that the guide rail is engaged by panel orienting members attached to the trolley bolt. The guide rail may be mounted on the track or to the track suspending brackets. In a preferred embodiment, the guide rail is integral with the track. Panel orienting members that engage the guide rails are mounted to the bolts of the trolleys, which bolts in turn are fixed rotationally to the panels. At designated areas in the room, the track is free of the guide rail to allow stacking of the wall panels when not in use. In wall forming areas, the panel orienting members engage the guide rails so as to cause the trolley bolts, and thus the panels, to be properly rotated into a proper wall-forming arrangement and to remain in the wall forming arrangement until moved to a storage area.

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Dependent claims

In a wall panel system having wall panels suspended from a trolley bolt of a track and trolley system and rotatable between a wall arrangement position and a stacking position to allow stacking of the panels when moved to a track section for storage of the wall panels, an anti-stacking mechanism to prevent stacking of the wall panels at other than the storage area, said anti-stacking mechanism comprising:

at least one guide rail adjacent the track and extending substantially along a length of the track outside the storage area;
a panel orienting member attached to the trolley bolt supporting a wall panel, said orienting member including at least one biasing arm engaging said at least one guide rail to prevent rotation of the panel to a stacking position at other than the storage section of the track.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Anti-stacking system for operable walls

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Anti-stacking system for operable walls

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Abstract

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