Improvements in Weather-strips.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weather-strips.
I, ELIAS CANNON ELLIS, of Colorado Springs, in the County of El Paso, and
State of Colorado, United States of America, Gentleman, 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 :-
The invention relates to Improvements in Weather-strips.
The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive
weather strip which may be readily applied to a door and which, when the door is
closed, will press against the sill, excluding wind, rain, dust and the like, and which,
when the door is open, will be held above the floor or carpet.
The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement
of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and
pointed out in the claim hereto appended.
In the drawings :-
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a door and door frame provided with
a weather strip constructed in accordance with this invention, the door being partly
open, and the weather strip being shown applied to the exterior of the door.
Fig. 2 is a similar view, the weather strip being arranged in a groove in the
bottom of the door.
Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical longitudinal sectional views of the weather strip shown
in Figs. 1 and 2.
Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sectional views of the same.
Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the weather strip detached.
Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the lifting spring.
g. 9 is a detail view of the spiral spring.
gs. 10 and 11 are detail perspective views of the end plates.
ke numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the
wing.
designates a weather strip adapted to be arranged in a groove 2 at the bottom
a door 3, or in the groove in a strip of wood molding attached by screws thereto;
and the weather strip is provided at its lower edge with a strip of felt adapted,
when the door is closed, to press down against the sill 5 and when the door is
opened it is raised from the sill and held out of contact with the floor or carpet.
The weather strip is constructed of heavy sheet metal and it has a strip 1° of felt
secured within it between its sides.
Arranged on the upper edge of the weather strip and disposed longitudinally
thereof is a round steel spring rod 6, which is secured at its center to the weather
strip by a loop 7; the spring has one end 8 resting in a socket 9 of an end
plate 10, and the other end 11 of the spring rod is square and projects beyond the
strip, and passes through an end plate 10' and strikes, when the door is closed an
adjusting screw 12.
The adjusting screw is mounted on the frame of the door; it is adapted to bow
the spring rod downward to force the weather strip down, thereby bringing the felt
strip in contact with the door sill. The end 8 of the spring rod is disposed toward
the hanging edge of the door, and the socket 9 of the end plate 10 is formed on the
inner face of the plate. The end plates are flush with the edges of the door or
ends of the molding, and made either flat or L-shaped, as shown.
The adjusting screw allows more or less force to be applied to the spring rod,
thereby regulating the drop of the weather strip and its consequent pressure on
the door sill.

page_text: The spring rod is centrally secured to the strip it is guided by vertical loops 13
secured to the weather strip near the ends thereof; and it is passed through an eye
or loop 14 of a spring 15 which is spirally coiled and which is arranged in a tubular
casing mounted in the socket of the door. The spiral spring assists the action of
the spring rod in raising the weather strip, and the whole is quickly moved upward
as soon as the pressure of the spring rod is removed by opening the door.
The groove in the bottom of the door can be made with an ordinary grooving
tool, and a short spring 16 is provided to facilitate the operation and is mounted
above the rod 6. It will be seen that the weather strip is simple and comparatively
inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a door and
that it is capable of effectually excluding wind, rain, dust and the like.
Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be
resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of
this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination of a door, end plates 10 and 10' arranged at opposite edges of
the door one of the plates having a socket and the other being provided with an
opening, a weather strip constructed of sheet metal bent longitudinally and having
an elastic strip secured between its sides, vertical loops secured to the weather strip
near the ends thereof and being of an approximately U-shape, and a spring rod
centrally secured to the upper edge of the weather strip and having one end
arranged in the socket of the end plate 10 and its other end extending through
the opening of the end plate 10', substantially as described.
Dated this 7th day of June 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
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