Patent ID: 8109315
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: E05B,E05D,E05Y,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An accordion partition comprising: a pair of panels each lying in a generally vertical plane and each having horizontally spaced inner and outer side edges, the panels being adjacent each other with the inner side edges of each panel closely juxtaposed with and parallel to each other; a hinge joining the inner side edges of the panels; horizontal and generally parallel upper ceiling and lower floor tracks above and below the pair of panels; upper and lower trolley hardware on each of the panels offset from the respective inner edges and riding in the respective tracks, whereby the panels can move horizontally relative to one another between an extended use position lying generally coplanar with each other and with the tracks and a stowed position extending at an angle to each other and transversely of the tracks; respective latches on each of the outer edges shiftable between a locked position engageable in one of the tracks and an unlocked position clear of the one track; coupling elements on both of the latches interengageable only in the extended use position for shifting both of the latches synchronously between the respective locked and unlocked positions only in the extended use position; and means on only one of the latches for manually shifting the one latch between the locked and unlocked position, whereby in the stowed position movement of the one latch manually between the locked and unlocked positions has no effect on the other latch.