US960331A - Weather-strip. - Google Patents

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G. R. INGHAM.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.24, 1910.

ATTORNEYS Patented June 7, 1910.

Ill/VE/VTOR Z a 2195M BY CHARLES R. INGHAM, OF MAHWAH, NEW J EBSEY, ASSIG-NOR TO METAL PLATED CAB &

LUMBER COMPANY, OF MAHWAH, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WEATHERSTRIP- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 24, 1910. Serial No. 545,562.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CnAnmcs R. INoHAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mahwah, inlhe county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVeather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in weather stri s for windowisashes, such as are made who ly of metal, and more particularly to animprovement upon the strip shown in Letters Patent granted to J. E. Scott, July 21, 1903, and numbered 734,436, all the rights to and under whichpatent are now owned and controlled by the assi cc of my present invention, the Metal Plated Car & Lumber Company.

In the manufacture of many thousands of weather strips constructed and applied as described in the above Letters Patent, 1 have learned that it is open to several objections, to wit, the .upper end of the strip being open, dust, dirt, cmders, or other foreign material finds its way into the upper open end of the strip and lodges between the spring metal slide strips and the side walls, thereby destroying to a large extent the resiliency of the wings or side springs, in man instances causing the sash to bind in the rame, and in some instances causing the destruction of the wings. Furthermore, I have found in the use of these strips that the raw or unprotected upper edges of the strip will, at times, in the upward movement of the sash catch in the wooden frame; and thereb be bent distorted, or injured, and at other times wholly destroyed.

The object of my invention is to avoid these diflieulties and objections by closing the upper ends of thestrips against the ingress of dirt or foreign material, and at the same time to provide a strip with a rounded or curved upper end, whereby to insure the same against catching into the woodwork of the frame in which the sash slides, and with these and other ends in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and. combinations of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a b ank from which I form my improved weather stri Fig. 2 is spective view of the lank partly Fig. 3 is a view of the upper portion of the strip having the extreme upper ends bent or folded over in accordance with my present invention. Fig. 4 shows the strip applied to a portion of a window sash. Fig. 5 1s a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a view of a modified form of the upper end of the strip, showing the extension on the wing folded in betweenthe wing and side wall of the strip. 7

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents the blank from which I construct my improved strip, made of any desired metal, preferably thin sheet spring brass, the blank having rounded lower corners 11-11, and the two upwardly projecting extensions l212 on its upper corners, these extensions 12-12 being of such height as to afford suificient metal to bend them over and upon the inner sides of the wings or spring-slides Patented June a, rare.

as hereinafter described, the width of said extensions 12 bein the same as that of said win s. This blan is then formed, shaped or folded as illustrated in Fig. 2, that is provided with the rear plate 13, side plates 14, and the wings or spring slide plates 15. When folded into this sha e, it Wlll be noticed that the lower end 0 the strip will beopened, that is, an 0 en space wil be left between the lower en of the springs 15 and side plates 14 to afford an escape for any dust or dirt which might find its way in between said wings and plates. At the upper end of the strip, however, the projectionslQ form an extension of the wings 15, which which the weather strip is attached, and are thereby hidden from v1ew, the upper end of the strip presenting a smooth and rounded surface to the frame 18, with no'danger of the strip digging or catching therein.

- As will be noticed in Fig. 6, instead of I bending the extensions 12 over and upon the inner sides or surfaces of the walls 14, said extensions 12 may be bent or turned inwardly against the outer side'or surface of said Walls; but as such does not form such a tight lock or seal against the ingress of dirt, I refer to bend and fold the projecting en s as first above mentioned.

As well understood, the strip may bein other wa s modified,'and if so, the folded upper en s may be accordingly modified, the

gist of my present invention lying in the fact that the strip'is provided with a side wall, and a spring wing, the metal of the strip being bent from one member over on to the other in order to close the top of the strip, whereby to prevent the ingress of dirt or foreign matter, and also to protect the raw edge of themetal from catching into the.

window frame.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim is- 1. A weather strip comprising a side wall and" a spring win; substantially parallel thereto, the metal at the upper end of the strip being folded over, whereby to close the space between said wing and wall.

2. A weather strip made of sheet metal andvcomprising a side wall and a sprin wing substant1al1 parallel thereto, sai

Wing being provi ed with an extended end bent over against the metal of the wall,

whereby. to c ose the space between said wing and Wall.

3. A weather strip comprising sidewalls having spring wings formed integraltherewith, the metal of which said win s are A. V. WALSH, W. .R. Enson.

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