Surface-Mounted Rail Sliding Door with Trim Panel Reception Volume
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional pocket sliding doors require wall modifications or destruction for installation, limiting their integration in existing structures and failing to achieve the aesthetic effect of a pocket door without substantial installation complexities.
Innovation Solution
A sliding door device featuring a surface-mounted rail with preformed trim panels that create a reception volume for the door panel, allowing it to retract into the wall, and an additional connecting profile for secure panel attachment, enabling installation without wall modifications and optimizing aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If a pocket door is integrated into a wall, then the aesthetic effect of the door disappearing into the wall is achieved, but wall modification or destruction is required
Solution Approach 1:
A surface-mounted rail structure acts as an intermediary between the wall and the door panel. The rail includes a reception volume that receives the door panel when open, and cladding panels that cover the rail and create the aesthetic pocket door effect without requiring wall modification. This mediator enables the aesthetic effect while avoiding the need to destroy or modify the existing wall structure.
2Ease of manufacture
If a surface-mounted rail is used, then installation without wall modification is enabled, but the aesthetic effect of a pocket door is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The rail structure is merged with cladding panels to create a unified aesthetic appearance. The cladding panels are fixed to the rail and extend to cover the entire surface of the rail, making the rail invisible and creating the appearance that the door panel disappears into the wall. This merging combines the functional rail with aesthetic cladding to achieve both installation ease and visual appeal.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution extends from a simple surface-mounted rail into three-dimensional space by creating a reception volume that protrudes from the wall surface. This volume receives the door panel when open, and the cladding panels cover this protruding structure, transforming the flat wall surface into a dimensionally enriched structure that provides both function and aesthetics without wall modification.
3Shape
If the door panel is received in the wall, then the aesthetic effect is achieved, but wall destruction is required
Solution Approach 1:
The surface-mounted rail with reception volume serves as an intermediary structure that provides the pocket door effect without requiring the wall itself to be modified. The reception volume is created by the rail structure extending from the wall surface, and the door panel is received in this external volume rather than within the wall cavity, thus avoiding wall destruction.
4Ease of operation
If space is reserved for door panel movement, then the sliding mechanism can operate, but the surrounding space cannot be fully utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The door panel movement space is moved from the wall interior to an external three-dimensional volume created by the protruding rail structure. This allows the door panel to slide in front of the cladding panels rather than within the wall, enabling full utilization of the wall surface while maintaining operational space for the sliding mechanism.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a sliding door device (D) comprising a rail (400), a door panel (100), and trim panels (300), said rail (400) being surface-mounted above a door opening (O) in a wall (P), said rail (400) being pre-formed to accommodate said trim panels (300) which are attached to it, notable in that said trim panels (300) are dimensioned and pre-formed, on the one hand, to create a space (200) between the wall (P) and the back face of the trim panels (300) to accommodate said door panel (100) in the open position and, on the other hand, to occupy the entire height of the wall (P) on which they are installed. Applications: pocket door, sliding door.