Patent ID: 8381445

Claim:
A sealable sliding door system comprising: a header comprising at least one tilt actuation surface; a lower track parallel to the header; and a door panel slideably moveable along the lower track and the header, the door panel comprising: a first side edge; a second side edge; an upper edge; a lower edge; a panel surface bounded by the first side edge, the second side edge, the upper edge and the lower edge; a lower sealing member movably actuatable with respect to a lower sealing edge of the door panel between a retracted position and a sealed position, the retracted position configured for slideable movement of the door panel along the lower track, the sealed position closing a lower distance between the lower sealing edge of the door panel and a corresponding adjacent surface, wherein the lower sealing edge corresponds to the lower edge of the door panel and the corresponding adjacent surface is a floor surface; an actuator configured to advance the lower sealing member into the sealed position when the door panel reaches a predetermined location corresponding to a closed configuration; and an upper sealing edge comprising at least one door tilting interface configured to interact with the at least one tilt actuation surface, which tilts the door panel in a direction normal to the panel surface to reduce an upper distance between the upper edge of the door panel surface and the header when the door panel reaches the predetermined location corresponding to the closed configuration.