US228526A

US228526A - Weather-strip

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Publication number: US228526A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1897-06-08

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11. L. GRANT. Weather-Strip.

Patented June 8, I880.

FIG.I.'

MFETERS. PHOTO LITHOGRA WASHINGTON D C UNTTED STATES PATENT O FICE.

DANIEL L. GRANT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,526, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed March 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL LEwIs GRANT, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Weather- Strips, of which improvement thefollowingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide -a weather stripor pad Which shall be of simple construction, reasonable price, and readily adaptable to use upon door and window frames; to which end my improvement consists in the combination of a flexible inclosin g-case, a filling of non-conductin g material, and means for attachment to the door or window, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the icconipanying drawings, Figure l is a view, in perspective, of a portion of a weather-strip embodying my improvement; Fig. 2, a transverse section through the same, and Fig. 3 a similar section of the same in position upon a door-frame.

To carry out my invention, I provide a rectangular strip of flexible material, such as cotton or woolen fabric, gum cloth, leather, or other analogous material, which possesses flexibility, a smooth surface, and a reasonable degree of durability. This strip may be two inches or more in width and of such length as is found most convenient, and, being sewed together at its sides, forms a tubular incl0Sing-. case, A, the longitudinal seam of which serves as a convenient location for the attachments by which it is to be secured to the door or window frame when the weather-strip is completed and desired to be put into use. The case A is then stuffed with a filling, B, of any suitable non-conducting 1naterial-as, for eX-. ample, wool, cotton, flax, yarn, straw, hay, paper, hair, felt, or fur-care being taken that the filling shall not be packed into the case A so hard as to render it unduly stiff or inflexible.

The case and filling constitute a flexible non-conducting weather-strip, which can be manufactured at a small cost, conveniently packed for transportation, and readily connected to and removed from the frame of a door or window. 4

As shown in the drawings, Fig. 3, the connection of the weather-strip to the door-frame is effected by tacks (l, driven through the case A adjacent to the seam and I have, further, devised certain special attaching devices, neither of which, per 80, constitutes part of my present invention, and which need not therefore be herein described.

It will be seen that the filling ofnonconducting material gives the tube a fullness in shape, which causes it to bear against the surface of the door or window frame, and by its elasticity close the crevice much more effectually than can be done by a similar tube without a filling.

Iain aware. that similar tubes have been used without the filling, and such I do not claim as my invent-ion; but,

Having set forth the nature of my improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a weather strip or pad consisting of a flexible tube or caseinclosing a filling of non-conducting 1n aterial and having a longitudinal margin adapted for attachment to a door or window frame, substantially as set forth.

I). LEWIS GRANT.

Witnesses;

J. SNowDEN BELL, Gno. A. VAILLANT.