Improvements in Weather-bars or Draught-excluders, Applicable for Doors or Hinged Windows.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1838
Complete Left, 3rd Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888
Improvements in Weather-bars or Draught-excluders, Applicable
for Doors or Hinged Windows.
We, RICHARD HOLMES, and BENJAMIN SUGDEN both of Park Lane, Keighley, in
the County of York, Joiners and Cabinet Makers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say -
It relates to improvements in automatically-operating weather bars or draught-
excluders, applicable for doors or hinged windows and consists of constructing and
arranging the motor parts of same, so that the operations thereof may be more
efficiently performed than heretofore.
This is attained by mounting the weather bar, or draught-excluder, in the usual and
well known manner at the bottom or lower edge of the door or hinged window, and
arranging a supplementary rod or bar to operate same by coming in contact with the
door's post, (or post to which the hinged window is mounted) when the door (or
window) is being closed, pressing the weather-bar or draught excluder to cover the
opening at the bottom of said door; a spring being employed to raise or retract said
bar as the door (or window) is being opened.
In order that said weather bar or draught-excluder may be operated so that with a
very slight movement of the door or window to which it is applied, it is either pressed
down to cover the openings, or is allowed to be retracted by its spring, suitable lever
connections, with appropriate rods and bearings are employed to join the supplo-
mentary bar to the weather bar or draught excluder. These levers and rods are
arranged so that the necessary purchase is obtained between one bar and the other, by
these means when the door or window is being opened without said door or window
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page_text: moving any great distance, the weather-bar or draught-excluder is allowed to rise
clear, or out of the way of anything that may be placed in close proximity with the
door or window such as the edge of a carpot, etc.
These rods and levers may be dispensed with, and racks and pinions used in their
place, suitable racks being formed horizontally upon the supplementary bar and
vertically upon the weather bar or draught excluder.
The supplementary bar and the weather bar or draught excluder are held or guided
so that only one movement (horizontal and vertical respectively) relatively with the
door or window to which they are attached, is imparted to them.

page_text: .improvements in weather-bars or Draught Excluders, Applicable
for Doors or Hinged Windows.
We, RICHARD HOLMES and BENJAMIN SUGDEN both of Park Lane, Keighley in the
County of York, Joiners and Cabinet Makers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is. to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and. by the following statement, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in automatically-operating weather-bars or draught
excluders applicable for doors or hinged windows and consists of constructing and
arranging the motor parts of same, so that the operations thereof may be more
efficiently performed than heretofore."
In order that our said invention may be more readily understood we have hereunto
appended sheets of drawings illustrative thereof, to which, by figures and letters,reference
is made in the following description.
Fig. 1 is a view of the weather bar shewing that side of same which is nearest the
door. when applied, said door being shown in broken lines.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a similar view to fig. 1 but enlarged scale; the door being omitted in said
fig. 4.
Figs. 5 and 6 are similar views to fig. 4, but shew modifications of the working part.
Fig. 7 is a sectional side elevation of Fig. 6, said figs. 6 and 7 are drawn to a scale
about double that of figs. 4 and 5.
Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are detail drawings hereinafter referred to.
The object of our invention is attained by mounting the weather-bar or draught-
excluder a, in the usual and well known manner at the bottom or lower edge of the
door (or hinged window) b, and arranging a supplementary rod or bar e to operate
said bar a by coming in contact with the door's (or window's) post d, when the door
(or window) is being closed, pressing the weather bar a to cover the opening at the
bottom of said door (or window) b, a spring heing employed to raise or retract said
e
bar a as the door (or window) b is being opened.
In order that said weather bar a might be operated so that by a very slight move-
ment of the door or window to which it is applied, it (said bar a) may either be pressed
down to cover the openings, or be allowed to be retracted by its spring e, suitable
levers fand (figs. 1 and 4) are mounted on the part g and coupled by the rods h h¹
and h³ to the bars c and a respectively. The fulcra of the levers fand are made
nearer to the rods h h² respectively than to the rods 3 in order that said levers ff¹
may impart more motion to the bar a than the bar c received by the closing of the
door or window to which it is applied, by which means the bar a is allowed to rise clear
or out of the way of anything that may be placed in close proximity with the door or
window such as the edge of a carpet, etc.
Instead of arranging the levers in the manner above described, the levers i ¹ (fig. 5)
may be mounted on the part g and joined by the lovers or rods ³ ³ respectively, to the
bar a.
In said levers are made the slots k k¹, into which enter the pins m m³
respectively, said pins m m¹ being attached to the rod c and operating near the fulcra
of the levers the desired increase in motion is imparted to the bar a.

page_text: In connection with both the arrangements of levers above described, and as
illustrated by figs. 1, 4 and 5, the guide piece n in which is made a slot for
the reception and operation of the pin n which is attached to the bar a, is made
use of, so that the bar a is made to operate perpendicularly.
The rods and levers above described may be dispensed with and racks P P (sce
figs. 6 and 7 the same being shewn double the size of fig. 5, consequently the bars a
and c and the part g together with the spring e are shewn as being broken away; and
only one set of said racks p p' are illustrated since it will be readily understood how-
the others may be mounted near the other end of said bars a and.c) and the pinion s
used in place of same. The pinions is somewhat of a double-segment formation as
is shewn, one part of said segment being smaller in diameter than the other parts,
said smaller part being in gear with the rack p which is attached to the bar C, while
the larger parts gears into the rack pl by which means the desired purchase in
movement between the bars c and a, is obtained.
Provided a weather bar with its operative parts, as above described, is applied to a
door, the hinge of which is of the very old type, as shewn by fig. 8, said hinge
projecting a considerable distance from the door's post, a kind of projecting (metal)
shoe is attached to the outer end of the rod c in order that its outer projecting end
may catch that face of the door's post that is at right angles to the door and not
be caught between the door and that face of its post parallel to it.
By making a suitable opening in the door's post d as shewn by broken lines in
figs. 9 and 10, for the reception of the projecting end of the supplementary bar c,
the weather bar a is rendered inoperative, however by hinging the cover w to said
post d, in such a manner that it (said cover w0) may be moved to cover or uncover
the opening, said bar may be put into or out of operation whenever desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The bar a the levers fƒ³, rods h h h² h³, bar c spring e guide piece n and pin n',
all in combination the same being arranged to operate substantially as specified.
2. The bar a the levers i¹³, said levers having slots k k respectively
formed in them, the pins m m³ the bar e the spring e, the guide piece n and the
pin n¹ in combination, all being arranged to operate substantially as specified.
3. The bar a, the bar c, the spring e the racks p p and the double-segment s s¹ in
combination all being arranged to operate substantially as specified..
4. The bar a, the bar the other parts hereindescribed as operating in connection
with said bars a and e and the projecting shoe t in combination, the same being
arranged to operate substantially as specified.
5. The bar a, the bare the parts herein described as operating in connection with
these said bars a and e, and the cover w, in combination, the same being arranged to
operate substantially as specified.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1888