Shower door leveler
AssigneeMr. Shower Door, Inc.
InventorThomas M. Whitaker
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Abstract
A shower door assembly including at least one door panel having a bottom surface, a bottom frame member including a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion including two grooves on a lower side thereof, the bottom portion including two sidewalls each having a top edge engaged in one of the two grooves, the door panel adjacent to and above the top portion of the bottom frame member, wherein the bottom surface of the at least one door panel is in a plane divergent to a plane of a bottom surface of the bottom frame member.
Claims13
A shower door attachment device, comprising:
- an elongated rail including a bottom portion connected to a top portion, said elongated rail having a length and a width;
- said bottom portion having a bottom wall and first and second sidewalls extending up from the bottom wall parallel to one another along the length of said elongated rail, each of the first and second sidewalls having a top edge that is sloped along the length of said elongated rail such that a height of said bottom portion, from the top edges to the bottom wall, decreases along the length;
- said top portion including a lower side with two elongated grooves, extending parallel to one another along the length of said elongated rail, each of the grooves receiving and at least partially concealing one of the sloped top edges of the first and second sidewalls along the length of said elongated rail;
- wherein said elongated rail has a rail height, between a top surface of the top portion and the bottom wall of the bottom portion, that decreases along the length of said elongated rail.
A shower door assembly, comprising:
- at least one door panel having a flat bottom surface;
- a bottom frame member with a length extending from a first distal end to a second distal end, said bottom frame member including a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion including an upper side and lower side with two grooves on the lower side, the two grooves being parallel to one another, the bottom portion including two sidewalls parallel to one another along the length, of the two sidewalls, each of the two sidewalls having a top edge engaged in one of the two grooves, of the two sidewalls and each of the two sidewalls having a bottom edge resting on a sloped threshold;
- said at least one door panel adjacent to and above the upper side of the top portion of said bottom frame member along the length;
- wherein said bottom frame member has a height from the upper side to the bottom edge of one of the two sidewalls, the height decreasing along the length of said bottom frame member.
A shower door attachment device, comprising:
- an elongated rail including a bottom portion connected to a top portion, said elongated rail having a length and a width;
- said bottom portion having a bottom wall and first and second vertical sidewalls extending up from the bottom wall along the length of said elongated rail, each of the first and second sidewalls having a top edge and a bottom edge;
- the top portion including a lower side with two elongated grooves each defined by inner and outer surfaces, extending along the length of said elongated rail, each of the two elongated grooves receiving between its inner and outer surfaces, and at least partially concealing, one of the top edges of the first and second sidewalls along length of said elongated rail;
- wherein the top edges of the first and second sidewalls slope along the length of said elongated rail such that said elongated rail decreases in height along the length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.