US678080A - Carpet or door strip. - Google Patents

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(Application led Jul.. 10, 1901.)

Patented luly 9, '|90l.

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SAMUELCW. WILT, OF ALVADA, OHIO.

CARPET R no oR STRIP.

srEcIrIcArIcN forming pm of ,Letters Patent No. 678,080, dated July e, 1eo1.

Application tiled January l0, 1901. Serial No. 42,778. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W.WILT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alvada,

l inthe county of Seneca and StateofOhio, have .invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet or Door Strips; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apL pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to door-sills or weather-protectors.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive door-sill designed to take the place of an ordinary sill and which shall be of such construction as to exclude the admission of cold air or moisture and the es cape from -a room of Warm air.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a door and casing, showing my improved doorssill in section and illustrating the manner of closing the space between said door and sill. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on line w,vFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the sill or strip before being placed beneath the door. Fig. 4 is an enlarged'sectional viewthrough one end of the sill, roller, and spring. l

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 f denotes the easing, preferably made in one i part, or it may be made in sections. This casing consists of a bottom 2,.end piece 3, in-

' clined side walls 4, and iat top portions C. 4o Interposed between the top portions and extending to the bottom of the casing is a longitudinal recess formed out of the body of the casing, as shown in Fig. 1. To the bottom of the recess and at opposite ends thereof I secure the liat body portion of plates D, the inner ends of which are bent at right angles to said body portions, as shown at F, the outer ends thereof abutting against the end walls 3 of the casing. A v

The letter Gr indicates springs made in bow form, which are interposed loosely between the said end walls and the right-angled por tions F. The ends of these bowed springs rest on the fiat body portions of the plates D for a purpose to be presently explained. The letter H indicates the roller, made of any suitable material, being constructed with free and unobstructed ends, said ends being loosely mounted between the end walls of the casing, the body portion resting on the upper 6o portions of the bows of the springs Gr,wherebyl` when pressure is brought to bear on the roller the ends of said springs are capable of having an endwise movement on the bodies of the plates D to4 or from the angles F of the 65 said plates and said end walls ofthe casing. 0n the opposite sides of the roller I secure to the liat top-portions C of the casing plates I l, which extend sligh'tly over the longitudinal recess, thereby to limit the upward movement i7o of said roller.

I attach importance to the construction of the plates D, whereby a housing is formed between the angles F thereof and the end walls of the casing, in which is loosely mount- 7 5 ed and operated the bowed springs G. I also attach importance tothe roller H, loosely mounted between the end walls of the casing and resting on the bodies of the bowed springs.

Previous to my invention a doorsill with 8o a roller journaled in plates secured to doorjambs, the, roller receiving its tension from" strap-hinges secured at-,the ends in the recess of the sill, the opposite ends of the springs being mounted in the bifurcations of the plates on the jambs, has been used. By my construction of roller I do away with the use of journals atthe ends thereof, as the same is loosely Amounted in the recess ofy the casing, its ends being free and unobstructed for 9o such purpose. The construction and arrangement of the angular plates with the'bowed springs loosely mounted 4therein serves/the purpose of the intermediate parts now in use for operating the roller.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is"- In a door-sill, or weather-strip, the combi'- nationwith the casing, having alongitudina'l roo central recess therein, and plates, with at body portions secured to the bottom of the recess, at opposite ends thereof, the inner ends'of the plates, being bent at right angles thereto, the outer ends of the plates abutting when said roller is depressed, or retracted,

against the end Walls of the casing, and the and the top plates, secured on opposite sides bowed springs, interposed between the end of the roller, substantially as described.

walls of the easing, and the right-angled por- In testimony whereof l have hereunto set 15 5 tion of the plates, .of the roller having free my hand in presence of two subscribing witand unobstructed ends loosely mounted in nesses. Y

the recess and resting on the body portions of the springs, whereby the free ends of said SAMUEL W' WILT springs are capable of having endwise move- Witnesses:

Io ment on the bodies of said plates, and to and O. B. BEITLER,

from the angles thereof, and said end wallsl LIZZIE BEITLER.

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