Improved Weather-bar for Doors.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1888
Complete. Specification Left, 8th May, 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Weather-bar for Doors.
I JAMES FINNIE of Blairbeth Cottage, Ayr in the County of Ayr, Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved Apparatus for preventing the inflow of rain-water.
or over draughts at door bottoms, and is of automatic action.
The improved apparatus comprises a spindle or shaft extending across and near to
bottom of door, attatched thereto by two or more suitable bearings upon which it
can freely oscillate. On each end of this spindle a crank or lever is fixed in a
horizontal position and projecting beyond the front face of door, upon the outer
end of those levers a tongue or strip of metal or other suitable material is suspended,
extending across the whole width of door. A shield is fixed over this tongue also
extending the full width and jointed water tight along its upper portion to door but
so formed that the tongue can be freely moved underneath and projected beyond
its lower edge. A spring attatched to spindle is arranged so as to lift and retain
the tongue up under cover of the guard when so required, a second lever is fixed
upon the end of spindle furthest from the axis of door and extending downwards,
a check is formed across the doorway a little within the line of the face of door
when it is shut. When the door is being closed and as the tongue has passed
over check in floor the lower end of vertical lever comes into contack with a stop
which prevents it advancing with the movement of the door so causing the spindle
to oscillate and depress the outer end of horizontal levers by which movement the
tongue is brought down to the floor outside the check simultaneously with the
complete closing of door thus shutting off the draught or preventing the entrance
of rainwater as the case may be.
As the door is being opened the vertical lever is releived from the stop by which
the spring is allowed to act with the effect of raising the tongue. up under the
guard and retaining it there clear of the check on floor, and the door is allowed
to swing freely in every position untill it is again being closed.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Weather-bar for Doors.
I, JAMES FINNIE, of Blairbeth Cottage, Ayr, in the County of Ayr, "Engineer"
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:-
My Invention relates to an improved apparatus for preventing the inflow of rain
water or over draughts at door bottoms, and is of automatic action.
The improved apparatus comprises-a-spindle or shaft extending across and near to
the bottoin of the door. Attached thereto by two or more suitable bearings upon
whicli it can freely oscillate, on each end of this spindle a crank or lever is fixed in a
horizontal position and projecting beyond the front face of a door; upon the outer
end of levers a tongue or strip of metal or other suitable material is suspended
extending across the whole width of the door. A shield is fixed over this said tongue
also extending the full width and jointed water-tight along its upper portion against
the door but so formed that the tongue can be freely moved underneath and projecting
beyond its lower edge. A spring attached to the spindle is arranged so as to lift and
retain the tongue up under cover of the guard when so required. A second lever is
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page_text: fixed upon the end of spindle furthest from the axis of the door extending downwards,
a check is formed across the doorway a little within the line of the face of the door
when it is shut. When the door is being closed and as the tongue has passed over
the check in the floor the lower end of the vertical lever comes in contact with a stop
which prevents it advancing with the movement of the door so causing the spindle to
oscillate and depress the outer end of the horizontal levers by which movement the
tongue is brought down to the floor outside the check simultaneously with the
complete closing of the door thus shutting off the draught or preventing the entrance
of rain water as the case may be.
As the door is being opened the vertical lever is releived from the stop by which
the spring is allowed to act with the effect of raising the tongue up under the guard
and retaining it there clear of the check on the floor and the door is allowed to swing
freely in every position until it is again closed.
And in order that my Invention may be thoroughly understood, 1 now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure represents an elevation of the spindle or shaft B oscillating on the
bearings
(inside the door, as the door is opened or closed, the lever bar D coming
into play by means of the spring F directly the door is opened.
When the door is opened the action of the apparatus takes place by the spring
forcing the lever arm E, which turns the spindle B and cant the lever G upwards,
thereby raising the tongues N and the weather-bar H.
The spring forces the lever arm E outwards and the lever bar unto the face of the
door, which takes place directly the door is being opened and released from the stop J
in the floor K or at any other point.
Figure 2 denotes a section of the apparatus fixed at the bottom part of a door
with a shield I to cover the weather-bar.
Figure 3. is the weather-bar on the outside of the door before the shield is fixed.
Figure 4 represents a full size section of the apparatus fixed to the bottom of a
door, without the shield.
The dotted lines indicate the lever bar D, against the stop J on the floor line K.
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:
First: The combination of the apparatus fitted to the bottom of a door for
preventing the inflow of rain water or draughts, substantially as herein described
and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly The combination of the spindle oscillating on the bearings by the
operation of the spring acting on the lever arm when the lever bar falls on the
inside face of the door, and thereby lifting the weather-bar, and the stop of any size
or shape, or fixed in any convenient position, substantially as herein described and
according to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of May 1889
JAMES FINNIE,
Applicant.