08-16-2010, 06:46 AM
Steve Wrote:... It took me a while to figure it out.......If we look at a close up of the door, you can see that the rollers are connected to the door with swivels. The center of the door would pull out and the right and left ends would then roll towards each other, essentially folding the door in half. It could then be rolled off to one side or the other. The track actually curves around the front of the building (I couldn't do this because my storefront windows are too high to allow that)
![[Image: ArchRoseGasStationfreightdoor.jpg]](http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r310/nazgul-np/ArchRoseGasStationfreightdoor.jpg)
Now that there's the enlargement I can see that the track does, in fact. turn the corner. I thought I saw that in the smaller picture, but discounted it as there's now way that would make any sense with what I assumed to be the typical solid, sliding door (I had one of them on my garage when I lived in Lansdale, PA ... a real pain to operate when it's pouring rain!)
Steve Wrote:The wooden piece at the bottom, that looks like a guide for a sliding door is really there to keep the center tight to the building when not opened. It could be spun out of the way to open the door.
I did notice that wooden piece and the fact that it looked like it could pivot but never put it together that the door might fold! Now tha's inventive ... and an interesting way to get large items in and out of a building that was obviously constructed with no thought to selling oversized items. Hats off to Mr. Rose!
Steve Wrote: I knew the door folded in some way (at the bottom it looks like three sections but the top looks like two, or many multiple sections). Kurt felt that it folded in half, and that is the way I believe it worked. One thing is for sure......it is an interesting door! ...
Geez ... you've got that right!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
