Partition system including pocket door with light seals

Abstract

A partition system includes a freestanding partition system having a pocket-defining partition, and a pocket door slidably supported on the partition system for movement into and out of the pocket. The door includes a door frame having a bottom section defining a cavity that opens downwardly, and a stiff plate-shaped light seal is operably positioned in the cavity for vertical movement by gravity between different positions as the light seal engages and rides along a floor surface. The door includes an adjustable door frame having a rectangular shape with generally square corners and straight sides, but a trailing stile of the door frame is longitudinally adjustable such that, when adjusted, the rectangular shape changes to an orthogonal shape where at least one of the sides of the door frame is angularly distorted from the rectangular shape. This allows the door frame to be adjusted to better fit a door opening. The door further includes offset wheels that engage interior surfaces in the pocket-defining partition to accurately locate the door in the pocket to prevent damage, despite very low clearance. The door further includes a leading vertical side edge having a non-planar mating surface shaped to mateably dovetail into and engage an abutment surface on a lock jamb of the partition system in a manner that prevents light from leaking between the surfaces when the door is in a closed position.