The present invention refers to a device especially designed for the synchronized actuation of two sliding doors, preferably two glass doors, such that the opening/closing motion supplied to one of them, by any means, both manual and mechanized, is transmitted synchronously to the other one.
The invention is indistinctly applicable to sliding doors shifting on the same plane, and to sliding doors functioning in different planes, with any angle, such as, for example, those corresponding to a corner of a room.
The invention is especially suitable for being applied to sliding glass doors, shiftable with regard to respective fixed panels, also of glass, framing the passage area including said doors.
The same applicant is owner of Spanish patent application number 9600632, which discloses a mechanism for sliding glass doors in which an upper rail and a lower guide parallel to the former participate, between which a fixed leaf and a shiftable leaf are situated, the upper rail, starting from a general inverted L-shape, having means for attaching stops limiting the run of the shiftable leaf, a rib which is longitudinal and oriented upward for the shifting of wheels associated to the shiftable leaf, and said shiftable leaf especially having a pair of suspension heads, in addition to incorporating respective wheels, each one of which heads configures a type of grip susceptible to being fixed to the upper edge of the shiftable leaf without needing holes or any other type of machining of the latter, specifically by simple tightening of said grip and by means of introducing sheets of an anti-slipping material between the grip and the shiftable leaf.
Maintaining the features of the previously mentioned patent in terms of the means of fixing each sliding door to its rolling elements, without any type of manipulation on the glass plate constituting said sliding door which may entail a risk of damaging or breaking it, the device proposed by the invention constitutes a technological advance in this field, enabling two sliding doors suspended from the corresponding guide with the mechanisms of patent number 9600632 to furthermore be able to be actuated synchronously, both in the opening motion and in the closing motion thereof.
To that end and more specifically, each one of said grips for fixing the corresponding wheel to the upper edge of the sliding leaf has an extension to which there is fixed by means of screwing a connection part, with a forked, T-shaped profile, through which the two sections of a cog belt arranged between two end and also cogwheels pass such that while one of the sections of the belt is susceptible to being shifted longitudinally and freely with regard to the connection part for the interior thereof, the other section is rigidly joined to said part through a wedge which can be actuated with a screw, which means that when the longitudinal shifting of the connection part occurs, due to the mobilization of the door to which it is associated, a parallel mobilization of the cog belt occurs, synchronously transmitting motion to the connection part fixed to the other door and in inverted position, such that said doors either separate from or approach one another, but always with simultaneous and synchronized motions.
Starting from this basic structure, participating in the device are two pairs of cogwheels, linked within each pair by means of a cog belt, each pair being situated in correspondence with one of the doors and said belts being able to be aligned or form a certain angle, the wheels in either case being cogwheels and double, with one wheel for the main belt of its own pair, and with another one of a larger diameter through which it directly meshes with the wheel belonging to the second pair, for the synchronized motion of both cog belts.
It has complementarily been provided that the lower profile of the fixed leaves, which frames the sliding doors, incorporates a dovetail side groove implying optimal tongue-and-groove coupling conditions for the profile constituting the lower guide of the sliding leaves, a guide on which a sleeve limiting the allowance of said sliding leaf with regard to the guide, as well as stops limiting the run of the repeatedly mentioned sliding leaf, can be removably assembled.
To complement the description being made and for the purpose of aiding to better understand the features of the invention, according to a preferred practical embodiment thereof, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description, in which the following has been depicted with an illustrative and non-limiting character:
In view of the mentioned figures, it can be observed how there is defined on the upper guide (1), equivalent to the one of patent number 9300632, duly fixed to the fixed leaves (2) and to the glass ends, as well as the sliding leaves (3-3′) themselves, and with the same rib (4) for rolling of the wheels (5) which, by means of the grips (6-6′), are joined to the sliding leaf (3), a lower groove (7) of an approximately rectangular profile opening, on which there is assembled the device for the synchronized actuation of the sliding leaves (3-3′), constituting the object of the present invention and which is that which is especially depicted in
Two modules participate in the mechanism, as can also be observed in said
Each module of the device consists of a connection part (13-13′) intended for being fixed to the corresponding cog belts (10-10′) of each one of said modules, the connection pieces (13-13′) adopting an inverted L-shaped profile, the vertical and lower branch of which is joined to the grip (6), as especially observed in
To synchronize the motion between the two complementary modules, that is, between the two cog belts (10-10′), respective cogwheels (18-18′) of a larger diameter meshing with one another are coaxially joined to the neighboring cogwheels (9-9′) of both modules, as is also observed in
To maintain the cogwheels (18-18′) duly meshed with one another, arranged between their respective shafts (19-19′) there is a joining part, mote specifically a joining strip (20) having respective U-shaped curves at its ends, which curves have openings (34) of an increasing width, as shown in
As a complement of the described structure, it has been provided that the fixing profile (21) for the lower edge of the fixed leaves (2) incorporates a dovetail groove (22) in its side branch facing the sliding leaf (3), providing two possibilities:
Firstly, it enables the coupling, by means of tongue-and-groove, of the lower guide (23) for the sliding leaf (3), with the collaboration of a sleeve (24) which can be inserted in its outer, asymmetrical and reversible branch, as shown in
Secondly, the same dovetail groove (22) can be used for fixing a lower stop (25) to limit and brake the run of the sliding leaf (3), which is logically interposed in the trajectory thereof, a stop the structure of which is observed in detail in
The upper rib (4) for shifting of the wheels (5) associated to the suspension grips (6-6′) of the sliding leaf (3) has also been provided as a fixing means for a stop (27), the one depicted in
As previously stated, the two sliding leaves can be coplanar, such as in the depiction of
For these angling cases, it has been provided that the two sections of the upper guide (1) forming said angle are joined to one another by means of a joining plate (30), which will be prefabricated and of a fixed angle adjusted to each particular case, as can be seen in
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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200303001 | Dec 2003 | ES | national |