Shower enclosure

US5337424A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ideal-Standard GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ludger Strack · Hürth, DE
• Konrad Bergmann
• Klaus Laeller · Meckenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 23, 1992
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1994
• Expiry date: Oct 23, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63C10/08
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A shower partition of the type which is attached to a wall and which can be swiveled as well as swung open and closed, between a rest position and an open position in which the shower partition forms an enclosed shower stall in conjunction with the wall to which it is attached. The shower partition includes a pair of separate subunits, each of which includes a plurality of segments which are hinged with one another. A first end of each subunit is attached to the wall in spaced apart relationship with respect to the first end of the other subunit, and opposite, second ends of the subunits abut one another, when opened, to form the shower stall. When the subunits are opened to form the shower stall, the inner segments are able to fold outward to the rest position while the outer segments are able to fold inward into the rest position but are blocked from folding further outward. Locking elements are attached on the longitudinal edges of the outer segments which engage with one another when the subunits are opened to form the shower stall and which are disengageable from one another only by inwardly directed folding of the outer segments.