US158292A

US158292A - Improvement in weather-strips

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Publication number: US158292A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-12-29
Anticipated expiration: 1891-12-29

Description

P. 8; .l. W. LYNCH &. N. A. STUWELL.

Weather-Strips.

Patented Dec; 29,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.PATRICK M. LYNCH, JAMES W. LYNCH, AND NATHAN A. STOYVELL, OF

MONICA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHE R-STRIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,292, dated December 29, 1874; application filed March 14, 1874.

J AMES W. LYNCH, and NATHAN A. SrowELL,

of Monica, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in eather-Strips; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference be ing had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of our weather-strip. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views of the same.

This invention has relation to weatherstrips for the bottoms of doors; and it consists in a stiff angular strip, a shield or guardstrip, and also with springs and depressingplates, whereby the said angular strip will be lifted when the door is opened, and forced down closely on the sill when the door is shut, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawing, A designates the lower portion ofa door, which is hung in a frame, B, over a sill, C, having an inclined edge, a. D designates a guard or shield, consisting of a raised semicircular portion, I), and a flat portion, 1), by means of which latter the guard is secured to the outside of a door near its lower end, and parallel thereto. E represents an obtuse angular strip, the upper portion of which is inclosed by the semicircular portion b of the guard D, and receives through it two or more pins, J, 011 which helical springs s are applied. The springs s pressthe upper portion of the strip E flatly against the door, and raise the lower portion 0 of this strip above the sill C when the door is open, as shown in Fig. 2. i

In the act of shutting the door the ends of the closing-strip E will strike two inclined plates, G G, which are secured to the frame B, which plates will depress the exposed portion of said strip against the inclined surface a of the sill, as shown in Fig. 3.

The guard D hides from view the upper portion of the strip E and its pins and springs, and also protects these parts from water and me.

We are well aware that the employment of a bent plate as a weather-strip is not new; also, that it is common to attach a straight or plane strip to the dust-cap by curved arms, as shown in the patent of H. Ogborn, No. 40,941, December 15, 1863. We do not claim such devices, broadly.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the centrally longitudinally bent weather-strip E, perforated above the bend, and rocking on the bend against the door, of the bolts J, secured to the door. passing through the perforations of said weather-strip, and carrying the coiled springs s, as herein shown and described.

, In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. LYNCH. PATRICK M. LYNCH. NATHAN A STOWELL. Witnesses: AUGUSTUS SrowELL, AMY J. STowELL.