A NEW OR IMPROVED WEATHER-BAR FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RAIN AT THE FOOT, OR SILL, OF DOORS AND CASEMENTS IN EXPOSED ASPECTS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Anthony Wheeler of Swindon in the County of
Wilts, Gentleman for an Invention of A NEW OR IMPROVED WEATHER-BAR
FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RAIN AT THE FOOT, OR SILL, OF DOORS AND CASEMENTS
IN EXPOSED ASPECTS,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Anthony Wheeler
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st March 1883.
CHARLES ANTHONY WHEELER of Swindon in the County of Wilts, Gentleman,
'A NEW OR IMPROVED WEATHER-BAR FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RAIN AT THE FOOT,
OR SILL, OF DOORS AND CASEMENTS IN EXPOSED ASPECTS,
The object of this invention is to provide a metal weather-bar or drip, and sill
facing to prevent the ingress of rain at the foot of doors, casements, and the like.
My present invention consists in providing a metal adjuster-plate, of suitable
thickness, about 1 to 2 inches in height, the lower part of which, about half-an-
inch in width, is formed something like an inverted V, and, when complete, is thus
in section ; the vertical part, or adjuster-plate, is secured to the face of and
along the lower external part of the door. On the sill beneath, and flush with the
said vertical part, and of equal length, I fix a metal plate, about one to two inches
in depth, with an upper flange, about half-an-inch in width, over which the lower
edge of the adjuster-plate passes. By this and the projecting portion of the adjuster-
plate the rain is carried over the raised sill, and is thus prevented from passing
under the door.
My improved weather-bar or drip, therefore, consists of a combination of the
usual raised sill, with the principle of the old-fashioned, unsightly weather-board;
but substituting therefor a neat metal drip of considerably reduced dimensions;
and, by the arrangement of the raised sill allowing the passage of the door over a
mat brought to its proper position, the joist-destroying process of forming a mat-
box, below the level of the floor is avoided

page_text: Part and parcel of the metal drip (superseding the old weather-board) is the
adjuster-plate which, by the simplest arrangement, is so fixed as to fit true, or very
nearly so, with the surface of the sill-plate. Should the door, at any time, drop at
the point, the adjuster-plate can be speedily raised, with the aid of a screw-driver,
so as to pass easily over the surface of the sill-plate, and thus prevent any ' dragging'
of the door.
Behind the adjuster-plate, and just reaching the surface of the sill-plate, there
may be a strip of cloth, or india-rubber, let in flush with the face of the door.
My improved weather-bar or drip arrangement, is firm and immoveable; and,
having no spring or other mechanism to get out of order, is virtually indestructible
while the door endures.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Anthony Wheeler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1883.
CHARLES ANTHONY WHEELER of Swindon in the. County of Wilts, Gentleman,
"A NEW OR IMPROVED WEATHER-BAR FOR THE EXCLUSION OF RAIN AT THE FOOT
OR SILL OF DOORS AND CASEMENTS IN EXPOSED ASPECTS,"
The object of this invention is to provide a weather-bar or drip-plate and sill
facing plate of metal or other suitable material, to prevent the ingreas of rain at
the foot of doors, casements, and the like.
In order that my said invention may be more fully understood and be more
readily perforined, I will explain the same with the aid of the accompanying
drawing, which forms part of this specification, reference being made thereto by the
numerals and letters marked thereon. Each reference letter applies to the same
part in the several figs. of the said drawing.
Fig 1 is a view, in cross-section, of my improved apparatus, made of metal plates,
and of the simplest kind; also a strip of flexible material e³ to prevent draughts of
air entering under the door.
Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing a neat and simple drip-plate 6 of wood-
moulding.
This invention consists in providing a metal adjuster-plate a of suitable thickness,
say about one-eighth of an inch thick, and about one-and-a-half inches in height;
the drip-plate b, by preference, I make also of metal (but other suitable material
may be used therefor) about the same height and thickness. These plates are,
together, secured to and along the face of the lower external part of the door c, or
casement, as shown. On the sill d, and flush with the said vertical plate a, and of
equal length, less perhaps the depth of rabbet at each end, I fix the metal
plate e, about one-inch in height, more or less according to circumstances, having
an upper flange e', about a quarter of an inch in width, resting upon the sill d, as
shown.
The adjuster plate a is, by my simple arrangement, so fixed as to fit true, or
nearly so, with the upper edge of the sill-plate e, as shown. Should the door at
any time drop at the point, it can be speedily and easily raised to the proper height,
when needed, with the aid of a screw-driver.
When it is desired to prevent a draught of air entering under the door or
casement, I attach a strip of rather stiff cloth or other flexible material e to the
lower part of such door or casement, and behind the adjuster-plate a, as shown.
My improved weather-bar, therefore, consists mainly of a combination of a raised
sill.d, with the principle of the old-fashioned, unsightly weather-board; but substi-
tuting therefor a neat, narrow weather-proof drip (by preference of metal, and
either plain or ornamental), secured, with the adjuster-plate a, to the door c, as
shown, and of considerably reduced dimensions; and, by the metal-faced and raised
sill, allowing the passage of the door over a mat placed in its proper position, the
joist-destroying process of forming a mat-box being thus avoided.
When it is desired to meet the economical requirements of the million;' in
place of the metal drip-plate b, a moulding of wood, about an inch thick, or other
suitable cheap material, may be secured to the door, partially over-lapping the
adjuster-plate, as shown in fig. 2; and will be, in connection with the metal sill-
plate e, for some time as efficient as the metal drip-plate in excluding the rain.
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and the method of performing the same, I further state that I do not restrict myself

page_text: to the precise dimensions and details herein described and illustrated, as they may
be modified in practice, according to the description of door or casement to
which my apparatus is applied, without departing from the main characteristics of
my said invention; but what I claim as novel and desire to secure by the before-
mentioned in part recited Letters Patent, is :-
Firstly The construction of a neat and efficient weather-bar or apparatus for
doors and casements, having the adjuster-plate a, the angular or drip-plate b, and
the sill-plate e all of metal; also the strip of flexible material e³, substantially as
and for the purposes herein described and shown in the drawing.
Secondly The application of a narrow moulding of wood (instead of the metal
drip-plate 6), in connection with the metal plates a and 6, substantially as herein
described and shown in figure 2.
In witness whereof I, the said Charles Anthony Wheeler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three.