GB875480A - Draught excluder - Google Patents

Abstract

875,480. Draught excluders. WYLLIE, M. R. Oct. 26, 1959 [Oct. 31, 1958; July 15, 1959], Nos. 35035/58 and 24332/59. Class 20(3) A draught excluder for the bottom of a door comprises two members preferably cylindrical as 20, Fig. 2 or 40 Fig: 4, or arcuate as 30, Fig. 3, connected or connectable together by separate resilient means which can pass underneath the door to hold said members in position against the bottom of the door and floor and to move along the floor as the door moves. The members 20, 30 or 40 may be adjustable relatively axially to accommodate doors of different widths. Elastic bands 21 pass around the solid members 20 preferably located in grooves 22. Elastic strips 31 are held as by knotted ends in holes 32 longitudinally spaced in the arcuate members 30. The arcuate members may be replaced by tubular members and the series of holes replaced by a longitudinal slit. (Fig. 1, not shown). The members 40, may be solid or tubular and have a longitudinal U-shaped recess 42 accommodating a rigid bar 44 which retains a wide rubberized elastic continuous band 41 passing through the recess. The bar 44 is secured at one end in the end 48 and at the other end in a hole 47 in a protuberance 46 in a removable end cap 45, the protuberance entering the recess 42. The end 48 may also be a cap permanently attached to the member 40. In a modification the ends of the bar 44 bent twice at right angles are secured at the centre of the end faces of the member and this latter, without the recess 42 can rotate on the bent ends as the door moves.