Acme General Corporation

The Stanley Works

Robert Brydolf

John R Johnson

John D Gephart

Kenneth K Kellems

A track assembly for a bi-fold door comprises a guide track having an elongated flat base, a pair of sides, and a pivot bracket. The outer edge of each side of the track is inwardly directed toward the base and defines a channel therein. A pair of runners extending from the pivot bracket provides means for reinforcing a portion of the guide track and reduces track vulnerability to deformation caused by lateral forces.

Track and pivot bracket for bi-fold doors

A drawer handle can be removably mounted over a drawer front without fasteners or the like. The drawer front has a recessed region to facilitate opening the drawer, and the drawer handle can be snap-locked onto the drawer front to cover the recess and provide an optional means of opening the drawer. The drawer handle is of inverted U-shaped channel configuration including elongated front and rear flanges extending along a narrow base of the channel. The front and rear flanges can be spread apart to facilitate slipping the channel over the drawer front so the base of the channel rests on the upper edges of the drawer front, and the front and rear flanges overlie front and rear faces of the drawer front. The rear flange covers the recess in the drawer front, while the front flange is foreshortened relative to the rear flange and extends across the mid-point of the recess to provide a means for opening the drawer. A locking flange extending along the bottom edge of the rear flange projects into a slot adjacent a rear face of the drawer for snap-locking the handle into releasable engagement with the drawer front. Projecting ribs adjacent the rear face act as stops against lateral sliding movement of the handle. The front and rear flanges can be spread apart to release the locking flange from engagement with the slot so the channel can be removed from the drawer front.

Drawer with removable handle

A hanger is provided for suspending a slat of a multi-slat folding partition from an overhead track. The hanger has a shaft with a head at its upper end and a tang at its lower end. The tang is for engaging a hole through the top of the slat. A clip is on the shaft for holding the tang in the hole in the slat when the clip is in its lower position. A bogie is mounted on the shaft between the clip and the head of the shaft. The bogie engages an overhead track for suspending the slat for movement along the length of the track.

Hanger for folding partition

This pivot assembly for a swinging or folding door can be readily adjusted for door height or position of the door pivot axis relative to the door jamb. An L-shaped bracket is connected into the corner between the floor and door jamb. The bracket has a number of discontinuities parallel to the floor to prevent translation. A pivot is mounted on the lower corner of the door, preferably by a plastic sleeve. The sleeve is threaded on the inside and a threaded pin is mounted therein. The lower end of the pin has means directly engaging the jamb bracket to prevent rotation and translation of the pin. To adjust the door in most embodiments it is lifted so that the head of the pin is out of engagement with the teeth in the slot. The pin is rotated by hand to move it up or down in the threaded sleeve. The pivot axis of the pin is adjusted by moving the pin to a desired position on the bracket. In other embodiments a sliding portion on the pin is moved out of engagement with the bracket to adjust door height and distance of the pivot axis from the jamb.

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Pasadena, CA, United States of America

Robert Brydolf