Improvements in Draught, Dust, and Weather Excluders for Doors and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th ec., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Draught, Dust, and Weather Excluders for Doors
and the like.
JAMES HAYWARD Builder, Cabinet Maker &c. Storrington Sussex do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A bar for bottom of doors made of metal self-adjusting, which rises and falls, as
the door is opened and shut. The hinges of the metal bar are for screwing to the
floor, and another part is fixed to the door, which serves for raising the metal bar
by the time the door is closed, the bar is about one inch wide and has two or three
hinges according as the length of bar may require. These two parts form the
complete arrangement, except screws necessary for fixing. This invention is to be
used for inside doorg, not a weather bar for outside doors.
The draught and dust excluding bar does not apply to windows and show
cases.
When the door is opened the metal bar which has the upper edges rounded lays
flat on the floor.
There are no springs, the part which is screwed on the door is active in laying
the bar down as the door is opening, as also in raising it up as the door is
closing.
Where doors are cut to clear thick carpets this bar will cover a space of one
inch and under, either parallel or otherwise and may be fixed upon carpet
floorcloth &c.
Dated this 16th day of August 1894.
JAMES HAYWARD,
Storrington, Sussex.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Draught, Dust, and Weather Excluders for Doors
and the like.
I, JAMES HAYWARD of Storrington, in the County of Sussex, Builder and
Cabinet Maker, 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 apparatus to be partly fitted to, and located at, the
lower end of the outer surface of the inside doors. of dwellings, offices, hotels
and other places, for the purpose of excluding draught, dust and cold therefrom.
In order that my invention, and its application, and manner of operation may be
fully understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings.
The apparatus forming the subject of my invention consists of a metallic or
other plate A, provided with a depending hook attachment B, shewn in perspective
by Fig. 1, and of a flat and preferably metallic bar C, a short length of which is
shewn in perspective by Fig. 2.

page_text: Fig. 3 is a view of a door to which my said invention has been applied, shewing
the position Figs. 1 and 2 occupy when the door is closed, and the latter is raised
and operating for the exclusion of dust and draught. Fig. 4 shows the same door
open and Figs. 1 and 2 disengaged from each other, with the latter lying flat upon
the floor, carpet or the like.
I carry my invention into effect by screwing or otherwise fixing upon the lower
end of the outer surface of a room, office or other door D, and near to the
hinged edge thereof, a metallic or other, and preferably, but not imperatively,
rectangular plate A, to which is rivetted, screwed or otherwise connected a tapered
depending hook B.
Upon the floor, or upon the carpet, oilcloth or other material covering the floor,
at the part covered by the door when closed, I screw or otherwise connect the
hinges E, of a hinged plate C, the length of which would be such as to fit easily
within, but closely to, the upright portions of the frame of the door D, the number
of such hinges varying according to the length of C, the position of their connection
to the floor or the like being such that when the door D is closed, and plate C is
raised, as at Fig. 3, the latter would be in close contact with the former, for
the purpose of excluding dust and draught. The manner of operation is as
follows.
The door being open as at Fig. 4, the plate C would lie perfectly flat upon the
floor, or that covering the floor, and in order that C may not unduly interfere with
the feet of persons passing into the room, the said plate would be as thin as possible
consistent with fair wear and tear, (shewn abnormally thick in Fig. 2, in order to
give effect to the illustration of the curves a and b) and would be tapered upon
the upper surface of its hinged edge as shewn by a in Fig. 2, its opposite edge being
tapered upon the under surface as shewn by 6 for the whole or any desired portion
of its length.
Upon the commencement of the closing of the door D, the lower edge of a
recess c in the plate A, would engage with the under surface of that end of the
tapered edge b of the plate C, and would effect the rising of the latter at the same
rate as the door D was closed, at the finish of which the position of C would be
that shewn by Fig. 3, and during this operation the hook B of the plate A, would
cover the edge 6 of the plate C, and so effect the retention of this in its raised
position, and assist in the pressing of C against the door D, to exclude dust,
draught, or the like, and in order that an easy and graceful connection may be
made between B and C, as stated, I may find it convenient or desirable to form in
a suitable position of the edge of C, a concave recess d (Fig. 2) which also
provides facilities for the above described contact between c and 6 during the
closing of the door D. In like manner, but reverse order, the book B would lay
the plate C, flat upon the floor, carpet, or the like, during the opening of the
door D.
By this means I effect the raising and lowering of the plate C automatically, by
the simple closing and opening of the door, and when C is in its raised_position as
at Fig. 3, it perfectly closes the opening at the bottom of the door D, notwith-
standing that such opening may be excessive, (as shewn by the dotted line in
Fig. 3) to afford a clearance for a thick carpet or the like, when the door is
opening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In an improved apparatus for excluding dust, and draught, from the bottoms of
doors, and arranged to operate automatically by simply opening and closing the
said doors, the construction, use, and application of a plate A, having a depending
hook B and recess ca flat metallic bar or plate C, tapered at a and b, and recesse.
at d, and provided with a suitable number of hinges E, the whole connected,

page_text: combined and operating substantially as and for the purposes herein described and
shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of December 1894
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.