US108480A - Improvement in weather-strips - Google Patents

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COLEMAN HIC-KjSfOE LANCASTER., KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent No. 108,480, dated October 18, 1870; antedated October 8, 1870.4

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sauneA I, COLEMAAY HICKS, of Lancaster, in the county ot' Gerrard, in the State ot' Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements in Weather-Strips for the Doors of Houses, of which the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to the construction and operation of a simple bar, in.such a manner that, from the inside of the door of a house, it may be easily raised from its resting-place within the carpet-strip, and, when so raised, it shall prevent the ingress into the house of rain, dust, wind, and snow, and at the same time perform the otice ofa safety-bar, to prevent the opening of the door in case the lock should be picked by burglars.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure l represents a front view of a door from the interior of droom, with my improvement attached, the weather-strip being down.

Figure 2, a side View of the bar or weather-strip.

Figure 3, a side view ofthe rod,.with its knob, hook, and catch, by which the weather-strip is raised'and Figure 4, a front view ofthe grooved bed-piece.

Figure 5, alike view of the lower part of a door with my improvement attached, the weather-strip being up.

In the use of my strip, the carpet-sill should be made in two parts. The outer part should extend inwardly, so as to be iiush with the inner facings.

The inner part, C, should be inthe form shown in tig. 1, hollow on the under side, and with an oblong recess, leaving room for the weather-strip S, tig. 2, to more up and down therein.

The weather-strip shown in iig. 2 should have the form and proportions in that figure shown, and should have the two flanges r v1', which will prevent its being lforced entirely out of its recess. It is simply a wide,

thin bar, a little longer than the space between the two facings ofthe door-way. When it is up, so as to cover the space between the bottom of the door and the carpet-sill, of course neither rain, dust, nor snow can find ingress, and the door cannot be opened.

I have heretofore obtained Letters Patent for a weather-strip of similar form, and for the same uses, dated August 17, 1869, but that strip was operated by springs seated under it, and such springs were set free by a spring-catch but the strip herein described is operated by entirely different devices, and for these novel devices l now desire to have Letters Patent.

Thestrip or bar is lifted and pushed down by means of the branched rod 1', which has hooks, h h, upon the lower ends of the branches, which are insel-ted 'in the holes e' c in the bar S.

The upper end of the rod fr is provided with a knob or handle, K, by which it is operated-(and a catchpiu i.. A

This rod r should be made of' steel or other sultablc metal, so that, when bent out of a right linein use it will spring to its original form when the force bending it has been withdrawn. It should be confined to its position by the pieces d and ff, winch may he fastened to the door by screw-bolts, or otherwise.. p

For the use of the catch-'pin i, a giooved bed-piece of met-al or other hard substance should belet into` the door, and fastened there, and should have two holes, m and n, in it, for the catch-pin to enter, as shown in the drawing, so that, when the catch-pin is in thc lower hole, n', the weather-strip will be down in its recess, and cannot be raised untilthe catch is drawn out by the knob K; and when it sha-ll be so drawn out, the catch may be forced up the groove in the bed-piece c, raising with it the strip S, until the catch-reaches and entersV the hole in, when the strip will he fast up above the carpet-sill.

The operation is so simple that a child may perform it.

First, by the knob K, spring the rod c', and pull the catch-pin t out of either of the two holes in which it vmay be seated at the time, andpush it upward or downward in the groove until it reaches and enters the hole.

Theinner piece of the carpet-sill is provided with recesses, e e, in its upper edge, so that, when the strip is down in its proper recess, the door may be opened and shut, and the hooks h; it will pass in and out of the` hole c' e' without diiieulty, and scarcely touching.

This dev-ice for ,operating the weather-strip will occupy but littlel space, and will be an ornament to the door, rather than otherwise; 'and it can be 'operated with nearly the same facility as the ordinary latch oi' a door. v

NVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The spring rod r, with its catch-pin, 1'-, piecescl and f f, knob K, and hooks h 7i, in combination with the Y bedepicce c, weather-stripI S, and section C of the carpet-sill, all constructed, arranged, and operated snbstantially as and for the purpose described.

COLEMAN HICKS.

Witnesses:

. J. l?. SANDIEER,

Roer. KINNAIRD.

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