Improvements in Apparatus for Excluding Draught and Rain.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov.. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Excluding Draught and Rain.
We, JAMES DE LARA COHEN, of 37 Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick,
Gentleman, and HENRY ALEXANDER DELL, of 5 Beaconsfield Road, Acton
Green, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, both in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention is intended more particularly for excluding or preventing the
draught of air which so commonly enters a room under the door, and for excluding
rain at external doors, and is so arranged as to rise, or be turned upwards when
the door is being opened, so as to pass freely over the carpet or the like, and the
arrangement is such that the whole movement takes place upwards or downwards
almost immediately on the door commencing to open, or as it becomes finally
closed.
According to our invention a lath preferably either of wood, metal, or other
suitable material is attached across the lower part of the door by hinges or joints
80 constructed as to admit of the lath being turned or swung laterally so that when
it is in its lowest position the surface of it is in close contact with the door and the
lower edge touches, or nearly touches the carpet or the floor or the like, and so
that when it is turned upwards within its limit of motion the lower edge of it is
lifted quite clear of the same.
We prefer to make the joint or hinges so that the centre of motion is removed a
short distance, more than the thickness of the lath, from the face of the door, and
such joints are preferably so arranged as to stop the upward movement of the bar
at a convenient point just sufficiently high to cause it to clear all usual obstacles on
the floor, and we provide a spring at each joint, or elsewhere which serves to raise
the lath when it is not otherwise held down, as hereinafter described.
The lowering of the lath as the door closes is effected by an arm or hammer
projecting from the lath over the shutting edge of the door and which engages, as
the door shuts, with a striking plate fixed on the corresponding post, and these
parts are so shaped that the one slides over the other practically without noise and
with very slight friction.
The lath may be covered, or made either with or without lining, cushioning, or
edging, of soft material.
Dated the 5th day of November 1895.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: improvements in Apparatus for Excluding Draught and Rain.
We, JAMES DE LARA COHEN, of 37 Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick,
Gentleman, and HENRY ALEXANDER DELL of 5 Beaconsfield Road, Acton
Green, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer, both in the County of Middlesex 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 :-
Our invention is intended more particularly for excluding or preventing the
draught of air which so commonly enters a room under the door and for excluding
rain at external doors and is so arranged as to rise or be turned upwards when the
door is being opened so as to pass freely over the carpet or the like, and the
arrangement is such that the whole movement takes place upwards or downwards
almost immediately on the door commencing to open, or as it becomes finally
closed.
According to our invention a lath, preferably either of wood, metal or other
suitable material is attached across the lower part of the door by hinges or joints
so constructed as to admit of the lath being turned or swung laterally so that when
it is in its lowest position the surface of it is in close contact with the door and the
lower edge touches or nearly touches the carpet or the floor or the like and so that
when it is turned upwards within its limit of motion the lower edge of it is lifted
quite clear of the same.
The lowering of the lath as the door closes is effected by an arm or hammer
projecting from the lath over the shutting edge of the door and which engages, as
it shuts, with a striking plate fixed on the corresponding post, and these parts are
so shaped that the one slides over the other practically without noise and with very
slight friction.
The lath may be covered or made either with or without lining, cushioning or
edging of soft material.
Referring now to the sheet of drawings annexed hereto,
Fig. 1, is an elevation of the lower portion of a door with my said apparatus
attached, Fig. 2, is an end elevation of the same with the door a short distance.
open and Fig. 3, is a like elevation with the door closed, and showing in dotted
lines the position of certain parts.
Fig. 4 is a front and a side elevation of the striking plate, and Fig. 5 is a front
and side elevation of the arm or hammer by which the lath is operated.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures-
A, is the door, b, is the hanging post and e the shutting post, d is a lath attached
to the door by hinges e, e, and preferably, but not necessarily, fitted with a slip of
ubber or the like f. A spring g causes the lath d to turn up in the manner shown
in Fig. 2 when not otherwise controlled. h is a striking plate attached to the
post c, and j is a hammer attached to the lath d. The door is recessed at a as
shown more particularly in Fig. 2, to give room for the hammer j
When the door is open the draught excluding lath d is tilted up as shown in
Fig. 2 so as to swing clear of the carpet or floor and remains in that position,
when the door is being closed, until the hammer ; comes in contact with the
striking plate h, and as the door closes the short remaining distance the curved
portion of the hammer slides upon the corresponding surface also curved, of
the plate h, and as the door finally shuts the lath is brought into the vertical
position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, in which it effectually excludes both draught
and wet.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. The apparatus for excluding draught and rain hereinbefore described and.
shown in the drawings.
2. In a draught excluding attachment for doors the combination of a lath such
as d to be hinged to the door, a hammer j attached thereto, a striking plate to be
attached to the door post c, all substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
in the drawings.
Dated the 5th day of August 1896.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.