Patent ID: 6973753

Claim:
A sliding door system, comprising: a housing including a drive and a runway rail; an automatically driven sliding leaf having opposing horizontal edges and opposing vertical edges and connected to a traveling carriage by a support profile, said traveling carriage being movably mounted on said runway rail for movably supporting said sliding leaf, said drive being operatively connected for moving said traveling carriage along said runway rail for moving said sliding door between an open and a closed position, said sliding leaf also being pivotal about a vertical axis for pivoting open; and active sealing devices for producing seals along the opposing horizontal edges and the opposing vertical edges when the sliding leaf is in the closed position, wherein one of said sealing devices includes an automatically acting sealing strip mounted on a bottom of said sliding leaf, said automatically acting sealing strip being releasable from a sealing position by interaction with a release mechanism at one end of a transverse profile connected at the bottom of said sliding leaf, said release mechanism including a cam which actuates a release device of said sealing strip when said sliding leaf is moved out of the closed position, said cam having a side block and being rotatably supported on an axle body mounted in a longitudinal profile of said sliding leaf so that said release device travels rotationally around said side block of said cam and actuates said release device when the sliding leaf is pivoted open about the vertical axis.