Patent ID: 8458957
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: E05D,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A pocket door system consisting of: a single pocket door adapted for sliding into and out of an enclosed vertically extending wall or pocket to enable and prevent egress through a framed door opening, said single pocket door having a pair of opposite vertically extending side door surfaces and a flat horizontally extending bottom door surface; said single pocket door including a roller mechanism mounted at a top door surface and a lower guide mechanism consisting of a receiving slot that is mounted and extending only upward into said door, above said flat horizontally extending bottom door surface and being centrally located only at said flat horizontally extending bottom door surface, said single pocket door completing covering said framed door opening when fully extended from said pocket; said enclosed vertically extending wall having a side boundary on each side of said pocket; said pocket door system further consisting of a floor track having no moving parts and said floor track mounted only upon a floor surface entirely secluded within the enclosed wall or pocket, said pocket door system further consisting of a flat, planar vertically protruding element extending up vertically from said floor track; said floor track and said centrally located flat, planar vertically protruding element being located only within the enclosed wall or pocket, for insertion into the flat, planar centrally located vertically extending receiving slot of said horizontally extending bottom door surface, said pocket door system further consisting of said floor track not extending out from the enclosed wall or pocket into the framed opening for improved safety; said pocket door system further consisting of said floor track not being attached to said respective side boundaries on each side of said pocket; said single pocket door further consisting of respective left and right vertically extending side surfaces, said bottom surface of said horizontally extending bottom door surface being separated from a floor of said frame opening by an uninterrupted gap therebetween; said pocket door system further consisting of said centrally located floor track not being attached to said respective vertically extending left and right side surfaces of said single pocket door, and an upper track and said roller mechanism comprising a connecting arm extending from a top of said door, a pair of rollers extending from said connecting arm, and said rollers riding in tracks formed in an extended member mounted on a ceiling portion that extends contiguously through at least a portion of both the framed door opening and the enclosed wall or pocket; wherein the pocket door system is constructed so that the roller mechanism engages the upper track as the flat, planar centrally located vertically extending receiving slot of the guide mechanism receives the flat planar centrally located vertically protruding element only within the enclosed wall or pocket in order to compel said single pocket door to slide into and out of the enclosed wall or pocket without wobbling and dislocation from the upper and floor tracks during intended operation.