Patent ID: 8499498
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: E06B

Abstract:
1. A threshold assembly comprising: an interior sill portion; an exterior sill portion including a drain chamber and a reservoir chamber, the reservoir chamber at least partially positioned below the drain chamber; a drop-down chamber positioned between the interior sill portion and the exterior sill portion, the drop-down chamber separated from the drain chamber by a first intervening wall, and the drain chamber separated from the reservoir chamber by a second intervening wall and one or more gutter channels disposed between the drop-down chamber and the drain chamber and between the drain chamber and the reservoir chamber, the one or more gutter channels within and extending through the respective first and second intervening wall wherein a bottom portion of the reservoir chamber includes one or more drain apertures, wherein the total area of the one or more drain apertures is smaller than the total area of the one or more gutter channels within one of the first or second intervening walls.