Improvements in Draught Preventers for Doors and Windows.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Draught Preventers for Doors and Windows.
I, GEORGE VAIL, of 3 Finglewood, Torquay, in the County of Devonshire,
Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to improvements in draught preventers for doors and
windows, which consists of a moulded tongue or stop attached to a rebated moulding
by wire springs, these said mouldings may be of any suitable shape, and is constructed
in various lengths for the purpose of being fixed in strips to doors or windows.
The moulded tongue or stop is fitted to the rebated moulding by means of wire
springs and pins, and when this apparatus is fitted to doors or windows and either
on being closed forces the moulded tongue into the moulded rebate thereby
excluding the draught.
The object of the wire springs is to force the moulded tongue or stop outwards
from the rebated moulding, so that when a door is closed it forces the tongue into
the rebated moulding for the purpose herein before described.
The moulded tongue or stop and the rebated moulding may be constructed to
any suitable section and of any suitable material.
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J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.
I, GEORGE VAIL, of 3 Finglewood, Torquay, in the County of Devonshire,
Inventor, 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 improvements in draught preventers for doors and windows,
which consists of a moulded tongue or stop attached to a rebated moulding by wire
springs, these said mouldings may be of any suitable shape, and is constructed in
various lengths for the purpose of being fixed in strips to doors or windows.
The moulded tongue or stop is fitted to the rebated moulding by means of wire
springs and pins, and when this apparatus is fitted to doors or windows and either
on being closed forces the moulded tongue into the moulded rebate thereby excluding
the draught.
The object of the wire springs is to force the moulded tongue or stop outwards
from the rebated moulding, so that when a door is closed it forces the tongue
into the rebated moulding for the purpose hereinbefore described.
The moulded tongue or stop and the rebated moulding may be constructed to
any suitable section and of any suitable material.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed

page_text: to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a section on line A. B.
Fig. 2, is a back elevation of the draught-excluder for windows.
Fig. 3, is a section on line C. D.
Fig. 4, is a back elevation of the draught-excluder for doors.
Fig. 5, is a section of the draught excluder applied to a window.
Figs. 6, and 7, are sections of the draught excluder fixed to a door.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a rebated moulding a of any
suitable length and in this said moulding I cut recesses e to any number and in each
recess I let in a spiral wire spring c with arms one of which is fixed to the rebated
moulding a and the other arm to the moulded tongue b. The spiral spring c in each
case is fixed by means of a pin d driven through the centre of the coil of the spring c
and the base of the moulding a.
b
If preferable I fix in a groove f cut in the top of the moulded tongue 6 a cord g of
any flexible material as in Figs. 3, 4, and 6.
The mode of fixing the apparatus to a window is shown in Fig. 5, fixed to one of
the upright beads h, and for doors as in Fig. 6, for the locking stile, and as in Fig. 7,
for the hanging stile.
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 :-
1. In draught preventers for doors and windows, the combination of the rebated
moulding a moulded tongue & wire springs c pins d and recesses e, substantially as
herein described and according to Figs. 1, and 2, of the accompanying drawing.
2. In draught preventers for doors and windows, the combination of the rebated
moulding a moulded tongue b wire springs c recesses e groove f and cord g,
substantially as herein described and according to Figs. 3, and 4, of the accompanying
drawing.
3. In draught preventers for doors and windows, the combination of the various
parts and fitted together as above described in this specification for the purpose
specified.
Dated thin 17th day of November 1896
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicant.