Lower guide for a sliding partition

Claim 1

Lower guide for a sliding partition for a wet chamber, particularly bath and shower rooms, with sliding doors which are suspended from an upper guide rail and can be pushed together and apart in telescopic fashion and which doors extend down into a guide slot open at the top and confined by an elongated lower guide member having two lateral guide walls and a bottom, the improvement comprising pivotal means for swinging a lateral guide wall outwardly in the direction from the guide slot about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out lateral guide wall measured from its highest point to the bottom of the lower guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom of the lower guide member, the swinging guide wall being supported between lateral frame parts with each lateral frame part having, coaxially with the swivel axis, a pivot pin, and, associated with each end of the swinging guide wall, there is a vertically extending elongated hole into which the pivot pin protrudes and is in the upper end of the elongated hole when the swinging guide wall is in the normal not swung-out position; and latch means being provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall from being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough for the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole.