RUNNER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a runner, the assembly operation of which to a door panel is conducted simply, in which the removal operation of a runner base is also conducted simply and by which the door panel in a construction field is hung and separated simply as a whole. SOLUTION: A holding case 11 is buried and fixed at the corner section of the door panel 3. The runner base 12 is installed detachably to the case 11 from the lateral outside. A lock pin 24 is mounted on a lock piece 23 set up to the runner base 12. The lock pin 24 is engaged with the lock groove 22 of the case 11, and the runner base 12 fitted to the case 11 is fixed and held in an inseparable manner. An inclined cam surface 29, against which the pin 24 is abutted, is formed to the inlet of the groove 22. The pin 24 receives reaction from the cam surface 29 under the state in which the locking of a release lever 26 is released and operated, and pushed out in the direction that the pin 24 is slipped off from the case 11 by a component force in the horizontal direction of the reaction. The runner base 12 can be separated forcibly from the case 11 by the pushing-out force. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO