US1736885A - Detachable weather strip - Google Patents

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Nov. 26, 1929. M. B. MORRILL 1,736,885

\ DETACHABLE WEATHER STRIP Filed Sept. 24. 1928 ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 26, 1929 UNETEE STATES '0 rice PATE DETAGHABLE WEATHER STRIP Application filed September 24, 1928. Serial No. 367,865.

This invention has relation to weather strips and refers particularly to a detachable device of this type.

Weather strips are so commonly used that no detailed explanation of their use should be necessary. A great disadvantage common to most structures of this type will, however, here be pointed out in order to emphasize the importance of my invention. Weather strips are usually made of fabric or rubber with or without a wooden backing, and they are ordinarily tacked or nailed on the window or doorframes they serve. They not only exclude air, but also serve to stop the flow of an immense amount of dust and cinders. Butat the same time they also become filled with such dirt and the corners and crevices surrounding them become unsightly dirt gatherers difficult if not impossible to cleanse. As they become saturated with dirt and gritty substances they also fail to function properly.

l/Vith these conditions in view the object of the present invention is the provision of a weather strip which may be easily removed for cleaning or replacement purposes, leaving the framework to which it is attachable open and free to be cleaned. The further objects and advantageous features of the in vention are hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the appended drawing, of

which:

Fig. 1 illustrates the structure of my invention partly attached to the bottom of a 'door,

Fig. 2 is a corresponding end elevation, on a larger scale, more clearly illustrating the method of attachment, and

Fig. 3 shows a modified form of attachment.

The cheaper the building construction, the greater the need of a weather strip. And the greatest need is, perhaps, at the bottom of cheaply made and poorly fitted 'doors. A wide space is frequently found between the door and floor, through which cold air, dirt and dust is free to enter. Such a door is designated by the numeral 1, and it is shown hung on a frame 2, above a floor 3. Adjacent to the bottom of the door is fastened a series of suitable studs 4, and these studs may be of the type commonly used to fasten sidecurtains on automobile tops and bodies. A strip of suitable material, 5, is made with eyelets 6, through which these studs are caused to project when the strip is mounted in position, whereupon the heads of, the studs are given a quarter turn, thereby locking the strip firmly in place.

As indicated in Fig. 2, the strip comprises a flat portion, from which depends an en larged head 7, and the strip terminates at the bottom in a relatively thin, flexible fin 8. The upper portion of the strip should be heavy enough firmly to support bead, on the other hand, shouldbe made heavy enough not only to withstand the wear of ordinary operation, but also to resist the kicking and stubbing such a device is subjected to. The bottom fin should be flexible enough to pass over an uneven floor. Rubber forms good material for a structure of this type, and if rubber is used in combination with the eyelets shown in the drawing, it is pos sible to mold the eyelets into the rubber, making it a strong and neat appearing device.

Where the projecting studs are found objectionable, it is possible to fasten the studs in the weather strip, substantially as indicated in Fig. 3, where a series of studs 10 are mounted in a strip 11, and sockets 12 are seated inthe door. Thestud and socket may conveniently be fashioned like the garment snap-fasteners so commonly used at the present time.

I wish it understood that the shape of the weather strip may be modified to suit working conditions. It may be possible, for example, the device is attachable to window sash frames. But in any case it is important to note that the device may readily be removed for cleaning or replacement and as readily reattached, and that the support is left entiely open and free when the device is taken 0 I claim:

1. In a Wall closure, the combination with the floor and the door hung above said floor,

the eyelets; the i to omit the enlarged bead where of a demountable Weather strip having a flat inner surface abutting the face of said door and reaching down to said floor, there being along the face of the door, near its bottom edge and in the upper portion of the strip male and female interengageable elements capable of supporting the strip on the door, the strip being made thin and flexiblexalong its lower edge and having a reinforcing bead above said flexible portion.

2. In a Wall closure, the combination-With the floor and the door hung above the floor, of a Weather strip mountable onthe face of the door and extending downward in. a straight line to the floor, said strip being provided along its upper edge With elements for engagement Wi th mounting elements on \the face o'f the door, the lJOtiZOHl'POlbiOD oiithe strip being flexible so as to adjust itself to the floor, there beinga heavy b'ead projecting outward from the strip between said flexe ible portion and the said mounting elements for the purpose ofproteotingthe strip against the abuses such structure. is-subjected'to.

3. In a Wall closure comprising a horizontal surface and a vertical member, such as a door; mounted'to swing abovesaid surface, out a Weather strip vertically extending from the doorto said surface, said strip having flat inner surfacefor engagement Withthe face of'said door, therebeinghfixedin the doorand-in th-e strip arrow of male and female snap fasteners for'interengagement, ,thebottom portion of the strip being; fl'enibleso as to adjust itself to variations in the floor level; there being bet-Ween said flexible portionnand the said fasteners: an outwardly pi -ejecting, reinforcing bead;

In testiinony whereof I have: hereunto af fixed my signature.

MAURINE- Ba MORRILIL-

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