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US2941794A
US2941794A US578108A US57810856A US2941794A US 2941794 A US2941794 A US 2941794A US 578108 A US578108 A US 578108A US 57810856 A US57810856 A US 57810856A US 2941794 A US2941794 A US 2941794A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D15/00—Suspension arrangements for wings
    • E05D15/36—Suspension arrangements for wings moving along slide-ways so arranged that one guide-member of the wing moves in a direction substantially perpendicular to the movement of another guide member
    • E05D15/38—Suspension arrangements for wings moving along slide-ways so arranged that one guide-member of the wing moves in a direction substantially perpendicular to the movement of another guide member for upwardly-moving wings, e.g. up-and-over doors

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  • This invention relates to an improvement in building structures suitable for human occupancy, such as houses, apartments, stores, ofiices, factories, etc., and has for its purpose improvement in ventilation and increase in the eifective use of space. This is accomplished by providing removable wall sections so that all or a part of the wall areas can be eliminated and replaced at will quickly and with little or no effort.
  • My invention permits the removal of entire walls or parts of walls, either selected ones, or all of them, as desired. This permits the maximum of flexibility, so that one may make the most use of the structure itself as well as of sun, breeze and rain.
  • the walls can be closed in a watertight manner.
  • several walls may be installed successively to take care of the special condition.
  • the outermost wall may be for hurricane protection
  • a second wall inside of that for ordinary use and a third wall may be a screen for protection from insects.
  • parts of walls as, for example, panels, partitions, doors and the like.
  • the invention is a structure partially enclosing an area, such as a chamber or the like, and having a vertical partition capable of being raised to a horizontal position and stored, preferably above the area which it partially encloses, with the side which normally faces the area facing upward throughout its travel and during storage.
  • the structure has a partition, which is the term I use in the generic sense to include all of the foregoing examples, disposed vertically between one floor and an overhead shelter, which may be the roof or the next succeeding upper floor of the structure. Suspended below the roof or upper floor is a ceiling. At each lateral edge of the partition are columns extending between the floor and overhead shelter.
  • the partition To remove the partition, its top edge is moved outward horizontally and its bottom-edge is moved upwardly until the partition is horizontal, after which it is moved horizontally to storage, preferably between the ceiling and roof or upper floor of the chamber.
  • the initial movement of the partition is in a direction away from the area which it partially encloses, so that the surface of the partition which faces that area when the partition is vertical faces upward during its entire journey to and in the horizontal position. This permits objects attached to the wall, such as pictures, curtains, shelves, etc., to remain in their attached position without damage to them.
  • Fig. 2 is the same View as in Fig. l exceptthat the wall is in a partially open position;
  • Fig.3 is the same view as in Fig. 1 except that the wall is in a fully removed position;
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic view of the wall and the track guiding its movement, showing various positions of the wall;
  • Fig. 5 is a section view, taken along the line 5-5 of Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 6 is a section view, Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 7 is a section view, Fig. 6;
  • Fig. 8 is a section view, line 88 of Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the cable drive mechanism with the cable moving in a direction to remove the wall from its closed vertical position;
  • Fig. 10 is a section view similar it is enlarged and has a gear of Fig. 8 in cross-section.
  • supporting columns 11 rest on the floor G and support a roof 12 with a cantilevered canopy 14, or it could be a column-supported canopy, or roof to another room.
  • Supported between the columns is a section of removable wall 16.
  • a watertight closure 17; ,Beneath the roof taken along the line 6-6 of 16 is hung from straps 20 which are in turn hung from L-shaped brackets 22, each of which is mounted on a toothed rack 24.
  • Each rack 24 rides in a track 26 which is countersunk in the canopy 14 (see also Fig. 4) and guides and supports the top in its outward and return horizontal movement as hereinafter explained.
  • a gear 30 mounted on'a shaft 32, which gear has its teeth engaged with the rack 24.
  • a pulley 34 mounted on the shaft 32 between the pulley 34 and the gear 39 is a normally engaged clutch 36 which connects the pulley 34 and the gear 34 and causes them to move in unison when it is engaged.
  • the clutch is controlled by a normally deenergized solenoid which, when the clutch to be disengaged and thereby pulley 34 from the gear 30.
  • a wheel 40 mounted on a shaft 42 imbedded in the wall 16.
  • a gripping device 48 for gripping a cable, which device is controlled by a solenoid.
  • Each wheel 40 is guided by a track 44 having a U- shaped cross-section, with the open part facing the wall 16.
  • Each track 44 is in the shape of an inverted L, with a vertical leg 44a countersunk in a column 11 for the height of the column, and a horizontal leg 44b. extending inwardly from the column for a distance roughly equal to the height of the wall. lies above the ceiling 18.
  • the effect of the track is to prevent the wheel 40, and hence the bottom of the wall 16, from rising in a direction other than vertical when the wall .is raised, until the wheel has reached the junction of the legs 44a and 44b and the Wall is in a horizontal position with its inside surface up. After the wheel and the bottom of the wall have reached this junction, the effect of the track is to prevent them from moving in a direction other than horizontal when the to disconnect the Patented June 21,
  • an endless cable 50 runs over the pulleys 34, over pulleys SZmounted at each end; of each track 44 and through each gripping device 48.
  • Other pulleys 54 are located as needed to provide free movement of the cable, Pulleys are spring-mounted: as necessary to keep the cable taut.
  • the cable is driven by a motor 56.
  • the solenoid controlling the clutch 36 is energized, causing the clutch to disengage and to disconnect the gear 30 and the rack 24 from the pulley 34.
  • the movement of the cable 58 causes the bottom of the wall to move upward until the wall is level.
  • the top of the wall moves outward in a horizontal plane guided by the track 26 to which it is connected through the rack bar and straps and brackets as previously explained.
  • the cable pulls the bottom inward, guided by the wheel 40 riding in the track 44.
  • the top of the wall moves inward in a horizontal plane, again guided by the track 26.
  • the reverse operation is as follows: With the wall in its open horizontal position, the motor 56 is energized in the reverse direction and it impels the cable 50 in the direction opposite to that shown in Fig. 9.
  • the solenoid controlling the gripping device 48 is energized so that the device grips the cable 50, causing both the bottom and top of the wall to move in reverse, the bottom along the track 44 toward the closed vertical position and the top first outward and then inward in a horizontal plane, guided as before by the track 26.
  • the solenoid controlling the clutch 36 Simultaneously with the energizing of the solenoid controlling the gripping device, the solenoid controlling the clutch 36 (see Fig. 8) is energized, causing the clutch to disengage and the rack 24 and the gears 30 to run free of the pulley 34.
  • the solenoid controlling the gripping device 48 is deenergized and the cable is released. Simultaneously with this release, the solenoid controlling the clutch 36 is also deenergized, causing the clutch to engage and thereby connecting the gear 30 to the pulley 34.
  • the movement of the pulley 34 causes the gear 30 to drive the rack 2-4 inward and the rack in turn drives the top of the wall inward until it is in its closed vertical position in alignment with columns 11.
  • a mechanism for moving a vertical partition comprising means for moving the top of the partition horizontally, means for moving 11161301120111 of the partition upward in a vertical plane and means for moving the entire partition horizontally in a direction opposite to that of the first horizontal movement after the bottom has moved upward to the height of the top.
  • a mechanism for moving a vertical partition comprising means for moving the top of the partition horizontally, means for moving the bottom of the partition upward in a vertical plane and means for moving the entire partition horizontally in a direction opposite to that of the first horizontal movement after the bottom: has moved upward to the height of the top, said top of the partition horizontal moving means including a gear-,- clutch means and a toothed bar, said gear being rotatably mounted in a fixed position, said bar being slidably mounted in a horizontal plane for support of the top of said partition and said clutch means being capable of engaging the gear and bar for the firt partof the first horizontal movement of the partition and disengaging the gear and bar for each of said movements of said partition thereafter, said means for moving the entire partition horizontally being a t'ensioned member.

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US3044540A (en) * 1960-04-25 1962-07-17 Evadna B Hammersley Canopy-door unit
US3107400A (en) * 1961-11-03 1963-10-22 Hugh Stubbins And Associates I Movable wall partition
US3280508A (en) * 1964-03-13 1966-10-25 Ralph L Dugger Door
US20080127560A1 (en) * 2006-09-27 2008-06-05 Remy Harvey Garage door opener

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US845829A (en) * 1906-12-18 1907-03-05 Frederick C Tacke Shelf-door.
US1222090A (en) * 1915-07-06 1917-04-10 Thomas W Findley Electrically-operated trolley-door.
US1251724A (en) * 1917-06-13 1918-01-01 William M King Mechanism for automatically operating doors.
US1472864A (en) * 1922-05-24 1923-11-06 William F Burns Automatic electric window guard
US1789189A (en) * 1928-03-13 1931-01-13 Truscon Steel Co Door-operating mechanism
US1792119A (en) * 1927-10-10 1931-02-10 Peelle Co The Warehouse door
US1880850A (en) * 1928-03-21 1932-10-04 Owen L Dautrick Garage doorlock
FR749232A (fr) * 1933-01-19 1933-07-20 Porte oscillante avec voies de roulements circulaires doubles
US1940485A (en) * 1931-12-28 1933-12-19 Beeman Door operating mechanism
US2037085A (en) * 1935-10-14 1936-04-14 Naylor Paul Overhead sliding door
US2074870A (en) * 1935-01-04 1937-03-23 Koch Butchers Supply Company Refrigerator
US2542432A (en) * 1947-10-20 1951-02-20 Harold L Cook Automatic door operating mechanism
DE857914C (de) * 1951-04-20 1952-12-04 Herbert Baumer Antrieb fuer ein Kipptor
US2706538A (en) * 1948-12-17 1955-04-19 Henry J Kaiser Company Building structures
DK61692A (da) * 1986-04-30 1992-05-12 Ciba Geigy Ag Substituerede 2,4-diamino-5-cyano-pyrimidiner, middel indeholdende disse forbindelser samt deres anvendelse til topisk bekaempelse af skadeorganismer paa dyr og planter

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US845829A (en) * 1906-12-18 1907-03-05 Frederick C Tacke Shelf-door.
US1222090A (en) * 1915-07-06 1917-04-10 Thomas W Findley Electrically-operated trolley-door.
US1251724A (en) * 1917-06-13 1918-01-01 William M King Mechanism for automatically operating doors.
US1472864A (en) * 1922-05-24 1923-11-06 William F Burns Automatic electric window guard
US1792119A (en) * 1927-10-10 1931-02-10 Peelle Co The Warehouse door
US1789189A (en) * 1928-03-13 1931-01-13 Truscon Steel Co Door-operating mechanism
US1880850A (en) * 1928-03-21 1932-10-04 Owen L Dautrick Garage doorlock
US1940485A (en) * 1931-12-28 1933-12-19 Beeman Door operating mechanism
FR749232A (fr) * 1933-01-19 1933-07-20 Porte oscillante avec voies de roulements circulaires doubles
US2074870A (en) * 1935-01-04 1937-03-23 Koch Butchers Supply Company Refrigerator
US2037085A (en) * 1935-10-14 1936-04-14 Naylor Paul Overhead sliding door
US2542432A (en) * 1947-10-20 1951-02-20 Harold L Cook Automatic door operating mechanism
US2706538A (en) * 1948-12-17 1955-04-19 Henry J Kaiser Company Building structures
DE857914C (de) * 1951-04-20 1952-12-04 Herbert Baumer Antrieb fuer ein Kipptor
DK61692A (da) * 1986-04-30 1992-05-12 Ciba Geigy Ag Substituerede 2,4-diamino-5-cyano-pyrimidiner, middel indeholdende disse forbindelser samt deres anvendelse til topisk bekaempelse af skadeorganismer paa dyr og planter

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3044540A (en) * 1960-04-25 1962-07-17 Evadna B Hammersley Canopy-door unit
US3107400A (en) * 1961-11-03 1963-10-22 Hugh Stubbins And Associates I Movable wall partition
US3280508A (en) * 1964-03-13 1966-10-25 Ralph L Dugger Door
US20080127560A1 (en) * 2006-09-27 2008-06-05 Remy Harvey Garage door opener

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