US43394A - Improvement in weather-strips - Google Patents

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' I will proceed to describe.

GILEs H. OOLLINs, OF

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS. i

PATENT EEIOE.

WAYNE, MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,394, dated July 5, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILES H. COLLINS, of Wayne, in the county of Wayne a-nd State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather Strips for Doors 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front view of the lower portion of a door with my improved weather-strip attached, showing the door in its closed position; Fig. 2, a similar view, with the guard Bremoved, to show the devices by which the srip is operated. Fig. 3 is a view showing the door swung Open and the strip elevated, the door-sill being shown in section; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view in the direction of the line :v x, taken when the door is thrown partly open, showing clearly the operation Of the swinging lever D and spring-catch G.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

In the accompanying drawings, A repre- Feuts the weather strip proper, and B a guard-plate attached to the door by means of screws or otherwise for the purpose Otl pro- 1ecting and concealing the mechanical devices by which the strip is operated and of giving a neat finish tothe whole. The. strip A, which :hould be Ot' metal, is attached to the door by means of thc connecting-bar C, of wood, and the hinges a a.

b brepresent the heads of the screws by which the strip A is attached to the connecting-bar C.

My invention consists, essentially, in an improved manner of operating this strip, which The door being closed, as shown in Fig. 2, it willbe observed that the weather-strip is in close contact with 4the doorsill, and that the end of the slide E being in close contact with the doorjamb, the spiral spring c (one end of which is secured to the button h, and the other wound round the tongue i, projecting from the slide E) is compressed. Upon opening the door the slide E, being relieved from its contact with the jamb of the door, is thrown back by the action of the spring c until the hook-shaped spring-catchGr, which is secured to the sliding bar E, is brought into the same vertical plane with the tumbler F, secured to the connecting-bar C, and at the same time the hanging lever D, which is vpivoted to the connecting-bar O by means of the pin f, is brought into contact with the door-sill, and, as the pin gprevents its yielding forward,the effect is to swing the strip upward until the tumbler F is caught by the spring-hook G and the lever D is permitted to swing clear Of the door-sill, when the Outward movement of the door Inay be continued, the spring Gr securely retaining the strip in its elevated position and preventing its contact with the door. Upon closing the door the end of the sliding bar E is brought into contact with the frame Of the door and forced in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3, carrying with it the spring-catch G, and thereby releasing the tumbler F from its connection therewith, when, by the action ot the spring d, which eX- tends from the face Ot' the door (where it is attached to the button h) to the connectingbar C, the weather strip is depressed until brought into contact with the door sill, as shown in Fig. 2. A plate Ot' metal, K, is attached to the door-sill at the point Over which the swinging lever D plays, to prevent the wearing away of the wood-work.

l am aware that spring-hooks attached to a door and catching in staples fastened to a weather-strip have heretofore been used for the same purpose that I here employ such a device, and that various arrangements of sliding levers projecting beyond the edge Ot' the door and operated by being brought into contact with the door-frame have also been employed, and hence l" do not claim either of these features broadly; but,

Having thus fully described an improved manner of Operating weather-strips, what I claim as new and oi' my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The sliding bar E, having the springcatch G projecting therefrom, when combined with a door, and operating with reference to a weather-strip, A, and its attachments, substantially in the manner herein set forth.

2. The swinging lever D, when operating in combination with the tumbler F, sliding bar E',.and spring-catch G, in the manner herein set forth.

The foregoing specitication of my improved weathenstrip signed this 6th day of April, A. D. 186i.

GILES H. COLLINS.

In presence oti-- GEO. O. ROBINSON, D. W. BROOKS..

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