US875250A - Weather-strip. - Google Patents

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No. 875,250. PATENTED DEC.' 31, 1907.

W. H. BTTER.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLIoATIoN FILED JAN. 27. 190s.

WILLIAM II. ETTER, OF MARIETTA, OI-IIO.

WEATHER-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, -1 907.

Application filed January 27. 1906. Serial No. 298,160.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I-I. ETTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marietta, in the county of Washington and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Weather-Strip, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in Weather strips.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of weather strips, and to provide a combined sash guide and weather strip of simple and comparatively inexpensive construction, which will possess great strength and durability, and which will be capable of being readily applied to windows by inexperienced persons with the simplest of tools.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to effectually exclude air, and capable of preventino' side motion of window sashes, whereby it will be adapted to correct ill fitting sashes.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device adapted to prevent sashes from rattling and capable of reducing the friction to a minimum and of enabling sashes to slide freely at all times.

Another obfect of the invention is to provide a combined guide and weather strip which will not interfere with the removal of the sashes of the window, and which may be supplied at the cost of an ordinary sash uide or weather strip.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims, hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Figure l is a horizontal sectional view of a portion of a window provided with a combined guide and weather strip constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view of a portion of the weather strip.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawm0.

tThe combined guide and weather strip is provided with a substantially L-shaped oombined guide and attachment portion 1,A

which is constructed of a strip of sheet metal, centrally bent in a longitudinal direction at right angles to provide two sides or wings 2 and 3, and the metal of each side or wing is doubled or folded on itself to form two plies or thicknesses, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The side or wing 2 is fitted flat against a sash 4, and is secured to the same by suitable fastening devices 5, which pierce both plies or thicknesses of the side or wing 2, and which also pass through an inner attachment portion of a resilient flange or tongue 6. The inner attachment portion of the resilient flange or tongue 6 and the side or wing 2 are provided at intervals With perforations 7 for enabling the combined guide and Weather strip to be readily tacked to a window sash. The other side or wing extends outward at right angles to the side or Wing 2, and fits against the guide strip 8 of a window frame or casing 9. The plies or portions, formed by the fold, to provide a stout guiding portion, and it will be apparent that the projecting guiding sides or wings 3, at the opposite sides of a Window, will hold a sash against side motion and will correct ill fitting sashes and enable the same to slide freely.

The resilient tongue or flange 6 consists of a strip of springmetal, having an attachment portion 10, arranged at a slight angle to its free or engaging portion and fitted within the fold of the side or wing 2, and clamped by the plies or portions thereof. By this construction the resilient tongue or flange is securely fastened to the body portion of the combined guide and weather strip, and the fastening devices for securing the combined guide and weather strip to a window sash also serve to securely fasten the resilient tongue or flange within the fold of the attachment side or wing 2 of the L- shaped body portion 1.

In order to revent the resilient tongue or flange from ecoming separated from the L-shaped portion l before the device is ap` are contiguousA plied to a window, the side or wing 2 andthe attachment portion 10 of the resilient tongue .or fiange are provided with indentations 1l,

10, and the side or wing 2, extends outward Y from the same as clearly shown in Fig. 2,

before the device is applied to a windowsash, and when the device is applied to a window the resilient tongue or flange is fiexedor bent backward to insert it between the window sash and the guide strip 8. This creates sufficient friction to form a tight joint and to prevent the sash from rattling, andthe other ortion l2 of the resilient tongue or flange is ent longitudinally at a slight'angle to the inner portion, and when the device is applied to a sash, as shown in Fig. l, the portion 12 extends across the intervening space between the sash and the guiding or parting strip, and assists in providing a tight joint or connection. The angularly bent portion 12, may also be flexed or bent to accommodate itself to the intervening space between the sash and the strip 8.

The combined guide and weather strip, by spacing the side edges of a sash from the side ortions of a window frame or casing, and y maintaining the former in fixed relation to the latter, is adapted to correct ill fitting sashes and will enable the same to slide freely at all times with Aa minimum amount of friction. Also it will be clear that the combined guide and weather strip may be readily applied to a window by inexperienced persons, and that the resilient tongue or flange, which extends between the sash and the guiding strip, is adapted to adjust itself to the size of the space into which it is introduced, and is capable of forming a tight joint or connection and of preventing the sashes from rattling.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a window frame, and a sash, of a combined guide and weather strip consisting of an exteriorly arranged substantially L-shaped body portion fitting in the angle formed by the lsash and the window frame and having its sides or Wings rigid with each other, one of the sides or wings constituting an attachment portion and the other a guiding portion, and a resilient tongue or flange extending from the body portion into the space between the sash and the window frame or casing to form a tight joint or connection.

2. The combination with a sash, and a window frame, of a combined guide and weather strip comprising an exterior body portion arranged in the angle formed by the sash and the window frameand having an exteriorly arranged guiding fiange or Wing, said body portion being folded to form a plurality of plies or thicknesses, and a resilient tongue secured within the fold of the body portion and extending into the space between the sash and the window frame to form a tight joint.

3. The combinationwith a sash, and a window frame, of a combined guide and weather strip comprising a body portion arranged exteriorly in the angle formed by the'sash and the window frame and provided with an exterior guiding flange projecting from and rigid with the body portion, and a resilient tongue extending into the space between the sash and the window frame.

4. A combined guide and weather strip comprising an exteriorly arranged body portion having an attachment flange and provided with a projecting guide flange, said body portion being folded to form a plurality of plies or thicknesses, and a resilient tongue secured within the fold of the body portion and extending therefrom.

5. A combined guide and weather strip comprising a substantially L-shapedV body portion arranged exteriorly in the angle formed by the sash and the window frame and having two sides or wings folded to form a plurality of plies or thicknesses, one of the sides being secured to the sash and the other side or wing being slidable on the exterior of the window frame, and a resilient tongue extending from the body portion at the angle of the same and clamped between the folds of the body portion and secured by the fastening devices for securing the body to a winn f dow, said tongue projecting into the space between the sash and the window frame to form a tight joint.

6. A combined guide and weather strip comprising a body portion arranged exteriorly in the angle formed by the sash and the window frame and having a proj ecting guiding flange rigid with the body portion and slidable on the exterior of the window frame, and a resilient tongue extending from the body portion into the space between the sash and the window frame and bent longitudinally to engage both of such parts.

7. A combined weather strip and guide comprising a substantially L-shaped body portion arranged exteriorly in the angle formed by the sash and window frame and consisting of two rigid sides or wings, one of the sides or wings forming an attachment flange and secured to the sash, and the other side or wing constituting a guiding flange and slidable on the exterior of the Window frame,

and a resilient tongue extending from the Iny own, I have hereto a'xed my signature angle formed lby the sies or Wings and pro in the presence of two Witnesses. jeotng into tie s ace etWeen t e sash an( Window frame, saipd tongue being bent longif WILLIAM H ETTER tadinally to extend across such space to en- Witnesses: gage both the sash and the Window frame. GEORGE W. STRECKER,

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as A. T. WILLIAMSON.

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