Patent ID: 6665984
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A door comprising a tempered glass panel of a predetermined peripheral configuration defined by a substantially continuous peripheral edge, said panel further including opposite inner and outer surfaces bridged by said peripheral edge, a peripheral portion of said glass panel being defined by said peripheral edge and immediately adjacent surface portions of said opposite inner and outer surfaces, an open frame formed at least in part of molded polymeric!copolymeric synthetic plastic material, said open frame including an outer peripheral portion and an inner peripheral portion, said frame inner peripheral portion entirely bordering said glass panel peripheral portion including said glass panel peripheral edge and said immediately adjacent surface portions of said glass panel opposite inner and outer surfaces, said frame further including inner and outer surfaces defining therebetween respective inner and outer surface configurations of the frame and the wall thicknesses thereof, said frame inner surface configuration being substantially thick at said frame inner peripheral portion and defining thereat a substantially thicker wall thickness than at least one thinner wall thickness of said frame outboard of said frame inner peripheral portion, and said frame outer surface configuration defining a substantially continuous unstepped outer surface whereby only an inner surface of the door includes unaesthetic molding characteristics.