Gaskets

• US 3,213,584 A
• Filed: 07/31/1963
• Issued: 10/26/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Russell J. Bush
• Original Assignee: Russell J. Bush
• Inventors: Bush, Russell J.
• Application Number:
  US04/298,979
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• US Class Current: 277/649
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/68 of joints, e.g. expansion joints packing for joints in roads or airfields E01C11/02; expansion joints for bridges E01D19/06; sealing joints between foundation piles E02D5/14; joints in foundation structures E02D29/16; devices for sealing the spaces or joints between roof-covering elements E04D1/36; sealing joints between roof-covering elements E04D3/38; construction of joints for flooring or floor layers composed of a number of similar elements E04F15/02005; construction of joints for flooring or floor layers made of masses in situ E04F15/14
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6803 Joint covers E04B1/6815 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/062 used between similar elements separate provisional spacers E04F21/0092
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 19/065 Finishing profiles with a T-shaped cross-section or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2003/6223 with protruding parts anchored in grooves
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2003/6226 with locking strips
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/6205 having on at least one lateral side no backing from a separate rigid glazing bead or other stiff part of the window frame
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/106 homogeneous
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 277/921 Closure or weather strip seal

Claims

1. A GASKET STRUCTURE MADE OF RESILIENT MATERIAL COMPRISING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR ANCHOR PORTION ADAPTED TO BE INSERTED INTO AN OPENING DEFINED BY A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL, LATERALLY SPACED WALL PORTIONS;

A BODY PORTION DISPOSED ABOVE SAID ANCHOR PORTION;

SAID BODY PORTION HAVING MEANS PROJECTING LATERALLY OUTWARDLY FROM SAID BODY PORTION BEYOND THE LATERAL EXTENT OF SAID ANCHOR PORTION AND ADAPTED TO EXTEND LATERALLY BEYOND THE WALL PORTIONS TO SEAL THE OPENING;

EACH LATERAL SIDE OF SAID ANCHOR PORTION HAVING OBLIQUELY, UPWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY DIRECTED RIBS ANGLED IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID LATERALLY PROJECTING MEANS;

EACH SAID RIB HAVING A CONVEX UPPER SURFACE AND A CONCAVE LOWER SURACE;

SAID SURFACES CONVERGING LATERIALLY INTO A SUBSTANTIALLY SHARP EDGE, AND SAID CONVEX UPPER SURFACE EXTENDING SUBSTANTIALY ABOVE SAID EDGE;

SAID RIBS ADAPTED TO BE COMPRESSED WITH THEI CONCAVE SURFACE POTIONS FLATTENED WHEN SAID ANCHOR PORTION IS INSERTED INTO THE OPENING AND ADAPTED TO ROLL BACK ON THEMSELVES BY MEANS OF SAID CONVEX SURFACE PORTION ENGAGING THE WALLS OF THE OPENING WHEN A FORCE TENDS TO REMOVE SAID ANCHOR PORTION FROM THE OPENING.