Foldable door for closet

• US 5,782,282 A
• Filed: 07/17/1997
• Issued: 07/21/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chang Than Chen
• Original Assignee: Chang Than Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Chang Than
• Primary Examiner(s): Purol, David M.
• Application Number:
  US08/895,944
• Time in Patent Office: 369 Days
• Field of Search: 160/206, 160/199, 160/229.1, 160/135, 160/40, 49/383, 16/250
• US Class Current: 160/206
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 3/12 with two parallel pins and one arm
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/00 Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/20 for furnitures, e.g. cabinets
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2007/365 Rounded shape at gap, e.g. cylindrical
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/485 Sectional doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/362 the gap between the door and the door frame at the hinge side being constructed in a way to remain too small or too wide to cause injury

Abstract

A foldable door includes two door panels each having a rounded adjacent side. A safety member is disposed in the gap formed between the door panels and includes two curved recesses for engaging with the rounded adjacent sides of the door panels. Two couplers are secured to the safety members and each includes two shafts engaged in the door panels for pivotally coupling the door panels together and for allowing the door panels to be rotated about the shafts. The safety member may enclose the gap for preventing a user from being hurt between the door panels.

Claims

1. A foldable door comprising:

two door panels each including a rounded adjacent side and each including an upper portion and a lower portion having a hole formed in said rounded adjacent side, said door panels defining a gap between said rounded adjacent sides thereof,

a safety member disposed in said gap defined between said rounded adjacent sides of said door panels and including two curved recesses for engaging with said rounded adjacent sides of said door panels,

two couplers each including two shafts engaged in said holes of said door panels for pivotally coupling said door panels together and for allowing said door panels to be rotated about said shafts respectively, and

means for securing said safety member to said couplers for allowing said safety member to enclose said gap defined between said door panels and for allowing said safety member to prevent user from being hurt between said door panels.

2. A foldable door according to claim 1 further comprising two upper bars and two lower bars secured to said upper portions and said lower portions of said door panels, said upper and said lower bars each including a first end having a sleeve engaged in said holes of said door panels, said upper bars each including a second end having a roller secured thereon, said shafts of said couplers being engaged in said sleeves of said upper bars.

3. A foldable door according to claim 1, wherein a first of said door panels includes a second rounded side opposite to said rounded adjacent side, said foldable door further includes an end beam including a curved recess for engaging with said second rounded side of said first door panel.