Garage door sealing member

• US 20050252084A1
• Filed: 05/13/2004
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Perry Antoshak
• Original Assignee: Perry Antoshak
• Inventors: Antoshak, Perry
• Application Number:
  US10/844,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20050252084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/70
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/23 Plastic, sponge rubber, or like strips or tubes
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/061 with positioning means F16J15/0831 takes precedence

Abstract

A garage door sealing member used for installation on a garage door along a bottom edge that contacts a floor when the garage door is closed. The sealing member is an elongated, polymeric member having and a length at least equal to the length of the bottom edge of the garage door. The sealing member has a slit along the length thereof to form adjacent edges along the length of the sealing member. The adjacent edges are resiliently separable to permit the slit to be widened to at least the thickness of the bottom edge of the garage door to thereby permit the bottom edge to pass therethrough. The sealing member encloses the length of the bottom edge of the garage door, the adjacent edges of the sealing member springably and/or frictionally gripping the length of the bottom edge. Thus when the door is closed the outer wall of the sealing member and floor form a seal. Preferably the hollow member is hollow and substantially cylindrical. The elongated member is preferably in a spiral configuration suitable for easy packaging, shipping, storage prior to use.

Claims

1. A sealing member for installation on a garage door along a bottom edge that contacts a floor when the garage door is closed, the bottom edge having a length and a thickness, the sealing member comprising:

an elongated member having a length at least about equal to the length of the bottom edge of the garage door;

the sealing member having a slit along the length thereof to form adjacent edges along the length of the sealing member;

the adjacent edges resiliently separable to permit the slit to be widened to at least the thickness of the bottom edge of the garage door to thereby permit the bottom edge to pass therethrough, the sealing member enclosing the length of the bottom edge of the garage door, the adjacent edges of the sealing member springably gripping the length of the bottom edge, whereby when the door is closed the outer wall of the sealing member and floor form a seal.

2. The sealing member of claim 1, wherein the elongated member is in a spiral configuration.

3. The sealing member of claim 1, wherein the sealing member is substantially cylindrical.

4. The sealing member of claim 1, wherein the sealing member is substantially hollow and cylindrical.

5. A sealing member for installation on a garage door along a bottom edge that contacts a floor when the garage door is closed, the bottom edge having a length and a thickness, the sealing member comprising:

an elongated cylindrical, hollow polymeric member having an inner wall and an outer wall and a length at least about equal to the length of the bottom edge of the garage door;

the sealing member having a slit along the length thereof that passes through the inner and outer walls to form adjacent edges along the length of the sealing member;

the adjacent edges resiliently separable to permit the slit to be widened to at least the thickness of the bottom edge of the garage door to thereby permit the bottom edge to pass therethrough, the sealing member enclosing the length of the bottom edge of the garage door, the adjacent edges of the sealing member springably gripping the length of the bottom edge, whereby when the door is closed the outer wall of the sealing member and floor form a seal.

6. A sealing member for installation on a garage door along a bottom edge that contacts a floor when the garage door is closed, the bottom edge having a length and a thickness, the sealing member comprising:

an elongated cylindrical, polymeric foam member and a length at least about equal to the length of the bottom edge of the garage door;

the sealing member having a slit along the length thereof to form adjacent edges along the length of the sealing member;

the adjacent edges resiliently separable to permit the slit to be widened to at least the thickness of the bottom edge of the garage door to thereby permit the bottom edge to pass therethrough, the sealing member enclosing the length of the bottom edge of the garage door, the adjacent edges of the sealing member frictionally gripping the length of the bottom edge, whereby when the door is closed the outer wall of the sealing member and floor form a seal.