Abstract:
A side-hinged, 180 degrees rotatable window, having a window casement which is pivotably mounted about a first vertical axis and about a second vertical axis relative to a window frame. The window casement is supported hanging at its one upper corner via a head portion (27) on a pivot pin (26) in a carriage (25), which is displaceable in a horizontal guide (16) in the window frame. The window casement is pivotably mounted at its center axis at the one end of an upper and a lower support or pivot arm, the opposite end of which is pivotably mounted about a third vertical axis in the window frame. The carriage (25) is designed with a part-spherical seat (25') for an equivalent part spherical portion of the support head (27) of the first pivot pin.
Abstract:
A cable-type regulator assembly for controlling the movement of a window panel in a vehicle door assembly which incorporates an automatic adjustment bracket to compensate for dimensional variations of components associated with the window panel. The bracket is adjustably mounted on a glider assembly slidably mounted in a track of an elongated rail mounted in the door. The body of the glider assembly is connected to the window panel adjustment bracket by a pair of rivets fitted into associated elongated slots in the bracket and through spider-like spring washers between the heads of the rivets and the adjustment bracket. The rivets and slots permit inboard and outboard, fore and aft and limited pivotal movement of the window assembly during operation. The spider-like washers provide a spring device spring loading the panel assembly during its movement to different positions to ensure that it smoothly travels without vibration and noise regardless of limit stack variations in the doors, window panels, guide tracks or other window regulator elements.
Abstract:
A lock-out trolley for a garage door has a first trolley member having body and a pair of pivot pins connected thereto. A latch arm, pivotally mounted on the pivot pins, has a trolley engaging member for selectively engaging a second trolley member. A cardioid shaped aperture in the latch arm engages one of the pivot pins and may lock the latch arm out of engagement with the second trolley member. A spring biases the latch toward its engaged position.
Abstract:
A trolley assembly for a pocket door system comprises a central carrier having a plurality of rollers journaled for rotation thereon. A hanger member having a bolt portion which is threadedly received by the carrier includes a laterally extending pintle. The pintle is received within an aperture of a bracket member secured to an upper edge surface of a door. A locking member is insertable into the aperture after the pintle is received therein and includes an abutment portion selectively positionable in proximity to the hanger member. When inserted into the aperture, the locking member blocks relative movement between the bracket member and hanger member thereby preventing removal of the pintle from the bracket aperture. The door height is conveniently adjusted by removal of the locking member and dissociation of the bracket member from the pintle whereupon the hanger member can be selectively threaded inwardly or outwardly of the carrier.
Abstract:
In a vehicle door having a retractable window pane, there is provided an improved window regulator for moving the window pane between its full-open position and its full-closed position. The window regulator comprises an elongate plate secured to the door, the plate being formed with at least one guide rail which extends obliquely, at least one slider slidably engaged with the guide rail, a carrier secured to the window pane and mounting thereon the slider, so that the movement of the slider along the guide rail induces the movement of the window pane, guide means permitting the window pane to pivot during the movement of the same, a flexible wire connected at a portion thereof to the carrier, so that the movement of the wire induces the movement of the carrier and thus the window pane, and a drive unit mounted to the door for driving the wire.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a truck assembly which is movable along a track and adapted to support a door panel, or the like, for corresponding movement. The truck assembly comprises wheel members mounted to a pair of axles. The axle are in turn supported by a carriage assembly which includes bearing arrangements for each wheel. The carriage assembly further includes holding means for maintaining the bearing assemblies in supportive position. A hanger member for the door panel is also provided, and is mounted to the carriage.
Abstract:
A sliding door is constructed with a rectangular metal framework of C-frame channel rail sections joined at their corners. A plurality of vertically spaced horizontal reinforcing struts join the frame side rails. The top rail of the door is slidingly hung from a track by hangers including hanger brackets. The bottom frame rail is held in position by a guide track. A thin siding panel and other structure is secured to the front flanges of the framework. Twisting of the top rail, caused by the forwardly offset weight of the front mounted structure including the siding panel, is prevented by braces connected between the top rail rear flange immediately adjacent the hanger brackets and the rear flange of the next lowermost horizontal strut. Wind-caused twisting of the bottom rail and resultant disengagement from its guide track is prevented by braces connected between the rear flanges of the bottom rail and the next uppermost horizontal strut.
Abstract:
An improved wire-type door window regulator moves a window pane upward and downward relative to a door panel or body panel of an automotive vehicle in accordance with a rotating operation of a crank or electric motor. The wire-type door window regulator comprises: (a) a wire extending along an orbit in which the window pane moves upward and downward; (b) a wire driving mechanism to which the ends of the wire are secured and which winds and unwinds the wire so as to move the window pane to a desired elevation with respect to the door panel (window pane receiving well) according to the rotation thereof; (c) a substantially U-shaped-cross-sectioned guide rail member attached to the door inner panel or body panel and which extends in substantially the same direction as the motion of the window pane, having a longitudinal leg on each side thereof and one longitudinal leg being bent at a right angle to form a flange and the other longitudinal leg being folded backward by press working to form a guide runner; and (d) a mechanism for connecting the window pane to the wire for movement therewith having a substantially U-shaped-cross-sectioned groove matching the guide rubber so as to allow slidably the window pane to slide in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail member, a substantially L-shaped-cross-sectioned groove separate from the substantially U-shaped-cross-sectioned groove engaging the flange of the guide rail member, and a stop member for fixing the wire thereto. Therefore, the window pane can smoothly be moved upward and downward.
Abstract:
A drive mechanism for the window of a motor vehicle having a driven base member with the window affixed thereto and guided for movement along a longitudinal guide rail is activated by a driving member which is connected with the base member to drive the base member along the guide rail. A guide flange provided on the guide rail is engaged with slide elements formed on the base member which are arranged to rest against the sides of the guide rail and at least one of the slide elements is formed with a flexible construction. The slide elements include a pair of lateral slide elements arranged spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail which rest against one side of the guide flange and a central slide element arranged between the lateral slide elements which rests against the other side of the guide flange.
Abstract:
A mechanism for moving a sliding door of a railway car is capable of moving the sliding door between a first position in which the sliding door is supported on the body of the railway car and closes an opening in the railway car body and a second position in which the sliding door is supported by the mechanism and is moveable along the railway car body so that cargo may be loaded and unloaded into and out of the opening in the railway car. The mechanism includes a crank and a roller rotatably mounted on the crank. The crank is rotatably mounted to the sliding door about an axis of rotation which allows movement of the roller through an opening in the bottom portion of the sliding door while limiting lateral movement of the crank which allows for clearance between the roller and the opening when the roller moves through the opening in the sliding door. An actuating member is provided and is rotatably mounted on the sliding door about an axis. The actuating member has at least one lug thereon. A connecting member is provided which is rotatably mounted to the crank and is also rotatably connected to the lug about an axis spaced from the axis of rotation of the actuating member.