Patent ID: 7467495

Claim:
A strand-form vehicle seal, equipped with a flexible reinforcement that defines a longitudinal direction and has a uniform generally U-shaped cross section in planes generally normal to said longitudinal direction, wherein said flexible reinforcement comprises first individual sections ( 1 ) of a nonmetallic, generally soft elastic first material having a predetermined hardness and second individual sections ( 2 ) of a nonmetallic dimensionally stable, generally rigid second material having a hardness greater than said predetermined hardness, wherein said first material being different from said second material and said first and second sections ( 1 , 2 ) of the flexible reinforcement each have said U-shaped cross-section and are continuously and homogenously formed by a respective one of said first and second materials from one distal end of said U-shaped cross-section to an opposing distal end of said U-shaped cross-section, and said first and second sections alternating one after the other along said longitudinal direction with successive said first sections being fully separated from each other by adjacent said sections and successive said second sections being fully separated from each other by adjacent said first sections.