Patent ID: 9743810
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A47K,E05D,E05Y,E06B

Claim:
1. A shower door guide assembly comprising: a pair of spaced apart brackets, each bracket being adapted to be mounted to a support surface, and each bracket having a receptacle formed therein; and a crossbeam with a guide formed therein for cooperation with a roller assembly of a door, the crossbeam having a cross-section sized so that terminal ends of the crossbeam are each received in one of the receptacles of the pair of brackets for pivoting about a lengthwise axis of the crossbeam and translation in the receptacle during installation of the crossbeam terminal ends into the receptacles of the pair of brackets; wherein a vertical drop-in of the crossbeam is not permitted; wherein the receptacles are each formed into the corresponding bracket in a lengthwise direction of the crossbeam with a receptacle opening in the bracket adjacent the receptacle for extension of the crossbeam from the bracket; wherein an ingress opening is formed in at least one of the brackets intersecting the receptacle and the receptacle opening for installation of the crossbeam terminal end into the receptacle; wherein the ingress opening is formed generally normal to the lengthwise direction; wherein each receptacle is provided with a lower contact region, and a pair of lateral side contact regions; wherein the ingress opening is formed through one of the pair of lateral side contact regions; and wherein said one lateral side contact region is of a height less than the other lateral side contact region.