Patent ID: 6672360
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: E06B,Y10T

Abstract:
A goods-handling door, comprising: two vertical uprights, and a flexible panel mounted to move up and down between the two uprights, each upright comprising:an outwardly extending slideway for guiding one edge of the panel, the slideway being made up of two walls, each wall having an outside face and an inside face, the two inside faces defining a slide volume between them that is centered on a slide plane; each upright including a surface (14F) applied against a wall so that the slide plane is parallel to said wall, and so that said wall is situated at a sufficient distance (d) from the adjacent outside face (14E) of the slideway wall that is nearest said surface, and the volume situated between the wall and said adjacent outside face (14E) being unobstructed so as to be capable of receiving the edge of the panel when said panel is disengaged from the slideway; and wherein the panel is made up of at least one flexible curtain reinforced by at least one horizontal bar, said goods-handling door being characterized in that at least one wall (4A) of the slideway has a thickness such that the outside face (14D) of said wall lies substantially in a plane of the flexible curtain; and wherein the goods-handling door further comprises a slide shoe with a guide shoe (50) including a guide peg configured to penetrate into and slide in the slideway (4), and at least one slide tab (46, 55, 56) disposed to slide against the outside surface (14D, 14E) of a wall of the slideway.