Doors – Does a swing-slide frameless glass door mechanism exist

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I would like to have glass around my square-ish shower (90cm × 100cm) in bathroom corner. It should only consist of two pieces:

  1. the fixed wall (100cm wide)
  2. door (90cm)

But instead of swinging doors opening inwards/outwards I'd like doors to swing-slide open inwards.

Looking from top down doors would open this way:

Sketch of slide-swing doors

Benefits of such door mechanism:

  1. easy shower access – door never in the way
  2. water dripping off the doors goes inside shower
  3. full width door without any wall side fixed glass

I would like to know if anyone has seen this kind of mechanism. I know how such mechanism should work but I don't know whether it's possible to buy it anywhere. I expect doors to be top hung (6mm toughened glass would weight somewhere around 30kg) with a slide running at the top side on the wall for the doors to open correctly. The main problem there may be is the weight of glass but I suppose it could be done without additional bottom support.

Would I have to contract someone to create such mech for me or is it possible to buy it anywhere? Or maybe somebody has already seen such product somewhere?

Best Answer

Expanding on my comment: I think that the main problem with the proposed setup is lacking a slide or rail on the bottom. Without a slide on the bottom the glass door can swing perpendicular to the sliding direction. See the below explanation for what I mean.

I have a sliding shower door with a sliding mechanism on the top (a stainless steel rail with 2 wheels per door on top of the rail) and a tiny U channel on the bottom to keep the door from swinging. I know, I need to clean the shower a little...

Top sliding rail

The door is sliding in the direction of the blue arrows. The U channel on the bottom is keeping the door from swinging in the direction of the red arrows. This U channel is about 2 CM long and seems to be made from aluminium.

Bottom channel

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