Improvements in and connected with Weather Strips for Doors, Windows, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1892-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Weather Strips for Doors,
Windows, and the like.
We, CHARLES MARGNE and EUGENE GRANGE, both of 8, Rue Vital, Paris,
in the Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates chiefly to weather strips for preventing rain and wind
from entering rooms, carriages, vessels and the like through the openings therein
closed by doors, windows, etc.
In carrying out our invention we construct the weather strip of metal or other
suitable material of C-shape provided with a flange to allow of its being secured
to the edges of the door, window or the like, such strip taking into or onto a
similar strip or a suitably formed solid strip fixed to the frame of such door or
window or vice versa.
In some cases such as when applying our weather strip to French casement
windows we make the bolt-socket of the door double and provide it with a pipe
which conducts the condensed vapour of the room outside. The said socket is
also provided with recesses at each side, as also is the bolt, for the purpose of
receiving the ends of the weather strip. A metal covering piece is provided which
fits over the upper part of the bolt-socket and closes the joint.
Dated the 20th day of October 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Weather Strips for Doors,
Windows, and the like.
We, CHARLES MARGNE and EUGÈNE GRANGE, both of 8 Rue Vital, Paris, in
the Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates chiefly to weather strips for preventing rain and wind
from entering rooms, carriages, vessels and the like through the openings therein
closed by doors, windows etc.
In carrying out our invention we construct the weather strip of metal or other
suitable material of C or channel shape provided with a flange to allow of its
being secured to the edges of the door, window or the like, such strip taking into
or onto a similar strip or a suitably formed solid strip fixed to the frame of such
door or window or vice versa.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a vertical section and an elevation of part of a
French window having the improved weather strip applied thereto.
a, a are the C- or channel-shaped strips of sheet metal which are fixed by screws
to the lower sill A of the frame of the window, and b, the C- or channel-shaped
strips of sheet metal which are attached to the lower part of the doors B of the
window.
When the window is closed the sheet metal strips b, b,cover the others a,
a¹.

page_text: c is a pipe or channel for the discharge of any water which may find its way
into the joint from without. The ends of the strips of sheet metal a, b, a', h¹, which
take onto each other enter a little way into the socket C of the bolt D of the
French window, and are made to incline slightly toward the socket C of the bolt,
so that any water which may reach the strips a, b, and a' may trickle from the
latter into the socket C from whence it is conveyed outside by a channel d cast in
one piece with the latter. As will be seen by reference to Figure 1, the socket C
is provided with an inner wall which is next the sill A so that water which
enters the socket does not come into contact with the sill, and the rotting of the
sill from within outwards is prevented.
The guiding case or metal covering piece E of the vertical bolt D is also
provided with lateral notches or recesses corresponding with the ends of the metal
strips a, b, a¹ 61 and this casing E also closes over the socket C at k.
If it is desired to catch the water which condenses on the window in cold weather
the metal strips b, b, are made of the form shewn in Figure 3, that is to say, the
upper edge of these strips is curved round somewhat, in order to form a second
channel above on the metal strips.
Figures 4 and 5 show the application of C or channel shaped metal strips a, b,
to a vertically moving sash window in which case a is attached to the lower portion
of the stationary window frame whilst b is provided with projections which when
the sash is moved slide in the grooves e which are fastened to the sash.
Figures 6 and 7 show the application of C or channel-shaped metal strips a, b,
to the upper joint of a railway carriage window, or of a railway carriage door, or
any other door which opens outwards, whilst
Figure 8 shows the arrangement of the channel-shaped strips of metal a, b, on
the upper joint of any door which opens inwards.
In the latter case the door frame or door is provided with a fluting; corresponding
with the form of the metal strip a, and the strip which lies inside the strip a is
attached on the outer side of the door.
Figures 9 and 10 show an arrangement for balcony doors, in which the strip of
metal attached to the bottom edge of the door, surrounds the rounded end of a
cast iron piece m when the door is closed.
The threshold m is moreover furnished with two channels n into which opens a
channel o which carries away the water which has obtained access between the
door and the threshold m.
At the ends of the metal strips 6 revolving rollers p are placed, which rollers,
when the door is opened or closed, roll upon the floor. In order that these rollers
may follow the inequalities of the floor, and so raise and lower the metal strips
accordingly, the latter are able to slide up and down upon the screws which connect
them to the door, by means of slots 8.
The rods t upon which the rollers p rotate, are soldered to the inner surface
of the strips band when the door is closed the rollers enter corresponding
recesses in the cast iron threshold m.
Figure 11 shows a similar arrangement for courtyard doors and half-doors in
which the end rollers p are placed upon a rod passing through them and secured to
the metal strips b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :—
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(1.) A weather strip for the joints of windows and doors consisting essentially of
a metallic strip such as b, provided with a C or channel shaped or curved portion
and secured to the window or door, which strip when the window or door is shut
catches over or takes onto the curved portion of a similarly constructed stationary
metallic strip, or over the correspondingly curved end of a clasp substantially as
hereinbefore described.
(2.) In a casement window having a weather strip of the kind already claimed,

page_text: a socket C for receiving the end of the bolt and having an inner wall to protect
the sill of the frame, against which it is fixed, from decay, and also lateral recesses
corresponding with the metallic strips a, b, and a¹ & in order to carry the water,
which obtains access to the metallic strips, into the socket, in combination with a
discharge channel d for carrying away the water conveyed to the socket by the
metallic strips a, b, a', b', the bolt D being provided with a guiding case or metal
covering piece E also catching over or taking onto a portion of the socket, and
being likewise provided with lateral recesses corresponding with the metallic strips
substantially as hereinbefore described.
(3.) The improvements in and connected with weather strips for doors, windows,
and the like, hereinbefore described and illustrated in the several figures of the
accompanying drawing.
me 20th day of my
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.