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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1997
Thomas J Husting, Sheboygan Falls, WI (US);
Kohler Co., Kohler, WI (US);
Abstract
A door system includes a sill having a ledge extending across the bottom of an opening to a bathing enclosure and having a raised lip along an exterior side of the ledge. A pair of parallel tracks are above the opening with a first door suspended from and slidable along the first track freely above the ledge. A second door and a third door are suspended from and slidable along the second track being freely suspended above the ledge. A pair of door retainers are attached to the first door and engage the other doors to prevent the doors from swinging into each other. A stop member is attached to the sill on an interior side of the ledge to retain three doors above the ledge between the stop member and the raised lip.