US1605005A

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Publication number: US1605005A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1926-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-02

Description

Nov. 2 1926.

'lllllll E. e. SIMPSON WINDOW GUIDE Filed May 26. 1923 Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES @Fitl.

EMORY GLENN SIMPSON, OF DETROIT, IrIICHIGrAN, ASSIGNOR T0 FIE-HER BODY COR- IPORATION OF DETROIT, IVIICIIIGAN', A CORPORATION OF NEW YORKJ WINLDOH GUIDE.

AppIication filed May 26, 1923. Serial No. 641,609.

This invention relates to window guides intended primarily for use in automobile closed body construction. The object of the present invention is to construct a window guide entirely of felt which window guide has a capability of being removably held in the window well and also to the window post above the window well.

In my prior patent No. 1,463,4A4, I have described and claimed a similar window strip made of rubber. This is very satis factory for the purpose specified but is rather expensive and is not as soft as the felt construction.

It is not broadly new to construct win dow guides of this character of felt, but so far as I am aware, no one has thought it possible to construct a cloth window guide that has projecting ribs to permit the guide to be detachably anchored in place. The felt guides heretofore used had to be nailed or tacked in place.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fraginenary side elevation of an automobile closed body.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 4-4. of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of a portion of the window well showing how the strip may be fed into the window strip retaining member.

Fig. 6 is a detail view showing the subassembly which forms the channel.

a designates the window post which is provided with a projecting portion 6 which is ordinarily called the window stop. a is a longitudinal groove therein. d represents the window molding rabbeted as at e to provide a shoulder arranged to fit over the base of the felt window guide.

This felt window guide is made up of a base strip f of hard stiff felt. To this is sewed perpendicularly a pair of semi-hard felt strips g covered by a covering preferably of velveteen designated 71. This velveteen forms the surface with which the glass panel. contacts in sliding in the window way. It also is waterproof and serves as a protection to the felt underneath. This Velveteen forms the bottom of the channel and is sewed to the base strip 7 by the line of stitches z and j. T he covering is also sewed through the strips 9 by the stitches is. The velveteen covering, together with each of the channel wall strips, is sewed to the base by the stitches m.

Preferably the felt strips are first stitched to the velveteen covering as shown in Fig. 6 and the complete assembly is then stitched to the base strip by the stitches m, 2' and j as shown in Fig. 4t.

From the above description it will be seen that a composite cloth window guide made largely of felt is provided, that this has the shapeliness of a window guide with a rubber core, at the same time it is cheaper and softer than a window guide constructed with a rubber core.

It will be seen that the ribs formed by the ends of the base member because of the insetting of the channel strip walls, serve as means by which the guide may be detachably anchored to the post. Above the window well one of the ribs rests in the groove 0 and when the rabbeted molding d is fitted over the other rib, the window guide is locked in place.

The window guide can be fed into the window well by inserting it at the top of the dove-tail anchoring strip '12 which is secured to the face of the window post. It simply is slid into the top of this strip as shown in Fig. 5. This is quite an important feature as it permits the replacing of the window strip at any time in the window well without removal of the trimming and it also permits the window strip to be applied to the job after the same is painted. This is an important point, as care does not have to be taken to prevent the paint from gumming up the window strip.

W hat I claim is:

1. A. composite window guide comprising a base member and a sub-ass mbly of strips of soft yieldable material united together as a channel unit and stitched to the base strip to form a glass guiding channel and one or more laterally projecting ribs.

2. A composite window guide, comprising a base strip of relatively stiff material and a sub assembly comprising a pair of strips of soft yielding material united by a covering strip which is sewed thereto to form a channel, the said sub-assembly being sewed to the base strip With one of the strips inset from the edge of the base to provide it projecting rib.

3. A composite Window guide, comprising a: base member of felt and a sub-assembly of felt strips with a cloth covering uniting them together as a channel unit, the

said sub-assembly stitched to the base strip to form a glass guiding channel and one or more laterally projecting ribs. 1

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EMORY GLENN SIMPSON.