US 12,221,829 B2
Appliance door synchronizing mechanism
Kalman Wertzberger, Brooklyn, NY (US); Meilech Friedman, Brooklyn, NY (US); Joseph Deutsch, Brooklyn, NY (US); Binyumen Itzkowitz, Brooklyn, NY (US); Robyn De Luca, Queens, NY (US); Wenhui Huang, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Naphtali Biegeleisen, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Assigned to The Steelstone Group LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed by The Steelstone Group LLC, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/590,505.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/145,115, filed on Feb. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0243528 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. E06B 5/00 (2006.01); A47J 37/06 (2006.01); E05F 17/00 (2006.01); E06B 7/28 (2006.01)
CPC E06B 7/28 (2013.01) [A47J 37/06 (2013.01); E05F 17/00 (2013.01); E05F 2017/008 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A door synchronizing assembly, the assembly comprising:
two doors for closing an opening to an enclosure, each door having a hinged outer edge at which the corresponding door pivots relative to a housing of the enclosure and a fixation point;
a central linkage adjacent a surface of the housing of the enclosure, the central linkage translatable substantially in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the opening of the enclosure; and
first and second rigid elongated elements, each of the first and second rigid elongated elements linking the central linkage with the fixation point of a corresponding door of the two doors;
wherein the movement of one of the two doors causes a translation of the central linkage which thereby generates a corresponding movement of the second of the two doors,
wherein the central linkage is located on or is fixed to a first end of a third rigid elongated element, the third rigid elongated element being fixed at or adjacent a side wall of the housing of the enclosure at a second end, and wherein the translation of the central linkage corresponds to a pivot of the third rigid elongated element about its second end, and
wherein the central linkage comprises two distinct pivot points adjacent the first end of the third rigid elongated element, wherein each of the first and second rigid elongated elements pivot relative to the central linkage at corresponding pivot points of the two distinct pivot points.