Sealing element

• US 3,276,167 A
• Filed: 06/04/1963
• Issued: 10/04/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anton Bus Johann, Herbert Hirche
• Original Assignee: Anton Bus Johann, Herbert Hirche
• Inventors: ANTON BUS JOHANN, HERBERT HIRCHE
• Application Number:
  US04/286,132
• Time in Patent Office: 1,218 Days
• US Class Current: 49/489.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 61/006 Means for keeping wardrobes free from moths, e.g. sealing means fighting means against moths A01M1/20
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 95/00 Fittings for furniture
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 1/6812 Compressable seals of solid form
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/231 with a solid sealing part
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2312 with two or more sealing-lines or -planes between the wing and part co-operating with the wing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/088 Spring arm

Claims

1. IN A STRUCTURE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, IN COMBINATION, A FIRST AND A SECOND STRUCTURAL MEMBER EACH HAVING AN ELONGATED END PORTION AND EACH OF SAID END PORTIONS HAVING AN END FACE, ONE OF SAID STRUCTURAL MEMBERS BEING MOVABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE OTHER STRUCTURAL MEMBER BETWEEN A CLOSED POSITION IN WHICH SAID END FACES ARE ADJACENT TO BUT SLIGHTLY SPACED FROM EACH OTHER TO FORM A NARROW GAP AND AN OPEN POSITION IN WHICH SAID END FACES ARE MORE DISTANT FROM EACH OTHER, SAID END FACES BEING INCLINED WITH REFERENCE TO EACH OTHER WHEN SAID ONE STRUCTURAL MEMBER ASSUMES SAID CLOSED POSITION;

AND AN ELONGATED SEALING ELEMENT COMPRISING A WEB INCLUDING A RETAINING PORTION ANCHORED IN THE END PORTION OF SAID FIRST STRUCTURAL MEMBER AND A CARRIER PORTION SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH AND EXTENDING BEYOND THE END FACE OF SAID FIRST STRUCTURAL MEMBER, AND A SICKLE-SHAPED ELONGATED SEALING LIP OF DEFORMABLE ELASTIC MATERIAL, SAID LIP BEING INTERNAL WITH SAID CARRIER PORTION SO THAT SAID WEB FORMS A RIGID SUPPORT FOR SAID LIP, AND BEING FEFORMED BY THE END FACE OF THE SECOND STRUCTURAL MEMBER WHEN SAID ONE STRUCTURAL MEMBER ASSUMES SAID CLOSED POSITION.