Soft-closing device for a sliding door
AssigneeDoor & Window Hardware Co.
InventorsJames Chang, Sung-Hui Lin
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Abstract
A soft-closing device has a base, a cylinder, a slider and a resilient member. The base has a track channel and at least one guiding channel. The cylinder is mounted in the base and has a housing and an expansion rod. The slider is mounted slidably in the track channel, is connected pivotally to the expansion rod and has two holding arms, a positioning pin and a holding recess defined between the holding arms. The positioning pin is mounted slidably in the at least one guiding channel. The resilient member has two ends connected respectively with the base and the slider.
Claims14
A soft-closing device for a sliding door comprising:
- a base having a chamber defined in the base;
- a track channel defined in an outer surface of the base and communicating with the chamber;
- and at least one guiding channel defined in the outer surface of the base and communicating with the chamber, and each one of the at least one guiding channel having an end provided with a positioning recess;
- a linear damper mounted in the chamber of the base and comprising a housing;
- and an expansion rod retractably mounted on the housing;
- a slider mounted slidably in the chamber along the track channel, extending out from the base via the track channel, connected pivotally to an end of the expansion rod of the linear damper and comprising a body having two ends;
- two holding arms respectively formed on and protruding from the ends of the body to define a holding recess between the holding arms for receiving a portion of said sliding door;
- and a positioning pin mounted on the body and mounted slidably in the at least one guiding channel in the base;
- and a resilient member mounted in the chamber and having two ends connected respectively with the base and the slider, wherein the slider pivots from a first position in which the positioning pin is held in the positioning recess to a second position in which the positioning pin is released from the positioning recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.