Adjustable sliding screen apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9920559-B2
Application number	US-201615091131-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2016
Priority date	Apr 9, 2015
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

An adjustable sliding privacy screen for a premium class passenger suite may include a guide rail mounted to a wall partition. The adjustable sliding privacy screen may also include a yaw and roll adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the guide rail and to the screen. The yaw and roll adjustment bracket may include a flanged adjustment screw for adjusting the yaw and roll of the screen and a locking screw for securing the yaw and roll adjustment of the screen. The screen may also include a ball joint adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the guide rail and to the screen. The ball joint adjustment bracket may include a ball joint and adjustment screw for adjusting the pitch of the screen and a locking nut for securing the pitch adjustment of the screen. The device of the present invention thus allows for the adjustment of the yaw, roll, and pitch of the screen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A premium class aircraft passenger suite enclosed by a fixed partition and an adjustable sliding privacy screen comprising:
an upper guide rail mounted to an upper portion of the fixed partition;
a lower guide rail mounted to an upper portion of the fixed partition at an opposite end of the fixed partition from the upper guide rail;
an upper yaw and roll adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the upper guide rail and attached to an upper portion of the screen and having a yaw and roll flanged adjustment screw;
a lower yaw and roll adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the lower guide rail and attached to the lower portion of the screen and having a yaw and roll flanged adjustment screw;
an upper ball joint adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the upper guide rail, spaced apart from the upper yaw and roll adjustment bracket along the upper guide rail, attached to the upper portion of the screen, and having a pitch adjustment screw; and
a lower ball joint adjustment bracket slidingly attached to the lower guide rail, spaced apart from the lower yaw and roll adjustment bracket along the lower guide rail, attached to the lower portion of the screen, and having a pitch adjustment screw.

2. The premium class aircraft passenger suite of claim 1 wherein the upper yaw and roll bracket and the lower yaw and roll bracket each further comprise:
a plurality of roller bearings sized to slide in respective upper guide rail and lower guide rail;
a truck attached to the plurality of roller bearings;
a carriage attached to the truck and having a void; and
a cradle attached to the screen and to the carriage, sized to fit within the void of the carriage and movable within the void as the flanged adjustment screw is manipulated.

3. The premium class aircraft passenger suite of claim 2 wherein the upper yaw and roll bracket and the lower yaw and roll bracket each further comprises a pair of locking screws which extends through the carriage, into the void, and contacts an upper surface of the cradle.

4. The premium class aircraft passenger suite of claim 1 wherein the upper ball joint adjustment bracket and the lower ball joint adjustment bracket each further comprise:
a plurality of roller bearings sized to slide in the respective upper guide rail and lower guide rail;
a truck attached to the plurality of roller bearings;
a carriage attached to the truck; and
a ball joint attached to the truck and to the screen and housed in a housing.

5. The premium class aircraft passenger suite of claim 4 wherein the upper ball joint adjustment bracket and the lower ball joint adjustment bracket each further comprises a locking nut for securing the pitch adjustment of the screen.

Assignees

• Be Aerospace Inc

Inventors

• Druckman David J
• Frost Ian L

Classifications

• B64D11/0606 Primary

  with privacy shells, screens, separators or the like (class dividers B64D11/0023) · CPC title

• E05Y2900/502

  for aircraft or spacecraft · CPC title

• E06B3/4636

  for doors (E06B3/4609 and E06B3/4654 - E06B3/4681 take precedence; sliding shower doors A47K3/34) · CPC title

• E05D15/0678

  on balls or floating rollers · CPC title

• E05D15/0643 Primary

  on balls or floating rollers · CPC title