Door

• US 3,299,596 A
• Filed: 12/17/1964
• Issued: 01/24/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company Incorporated (BP PLC)
• Original Assignee: Harry B. Neal, Raymond P. Brown
• Inventors: Neal, Harry B., Brown, Raymond P.
• Application Number:
  US04/418,961
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• US Class Current: 52/476
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/726 of metal
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/9649 Tie rods spanning the whole width or height of the frame; Straps encircling the frame
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 5/116 Arrangements preventing the removal of glazing panels

Claims

1. A FRAME UNIT FOR USE IN A DOOR STRUCTURE HAVING A GLASS PANEL SUPPORTED BY A RECTANGULAR FRAME STRUCTURE SURROUNDING THE PERIPHERAL EDGES OF THE PANEL, SAID FRAME UNIT COMPRISING A HOLLOW STRUCTURAL MEMBER OF GENERALLY RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTION AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF OPPOSED SIDE FACES JOINED BY INNER AND OUTER WEBS, PANEL STOP MOUNTING MEANS ON THE INNER WEB OF SAID HOLLOW STRUCTURAL MEMBER, EACH MOUNTING MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF GROOVES EACH HAVING AN UNDERCUT OUTER SIDE WALL FORMED IN THE FACE OF SAID INNER WEB AND EXTENDING THE LENGTH THEREOF ONE ADJACENT EACH SIDE EDGE THEREOF AND A PAIR OF PROJECTIONS LOCATED BETWEEN SAID GROOVES AND EXTENDING THE LENGTH OF SAID INNER WEB IN PARALLEL SPACED RELATION, SAID PROJECTIONS DEFINING TOGETHER WITH SAID INNER WEB A PAIR OF CHANNELS DIRECTED ONE TOWARD EACH OF SAID GROOVES, A PAIR OF ELONGATED GENERALLY CHANNEL-SHAPED PANEL STOPS POSITIONED ON THE INNER WEB OF SAID HOLLOW STRUCTURAL MEMBER, EACH PANEL STOP HAVING A CENTRAL WEB PORTION, A FIRST ARM EXTENDING THEREFROM AND CARRYING A RESILIENT GLAZING STRIP, AND A SECOND ARM EXTENDING THEREFROM AND ENGAGING AN UNDERCUT SIDE WALL OF ONE OF SAID GROOVES AND ONE OF SAID PROJECTIONS OF SAID MOUNTING MEANS TO POSITION SAID GLASS STOP ON SAID INNER WEB, EACH PAIR OF GLASS STOPS, WHEN SO POSITIONED, DEFINING A PANEL RECEIVING GROOVE AT THE INNER PERIPHERY OF SAID FRAME UNIT WITH THE GLAZING STRIPS OF SAID PAIR OF GLASS STOPS ENGAGING THE ASSOCIATED PERIPHERAL PANEL EDGE PORTION TO CLAMP SAID PANEL THEREBETWEEN AND SUPPORT SAID PANEL WITH RESPECT TO SAID FRAME UNIT, THE REACTION FORCE OF SAID PANEL ACTING THROUGH SAID GLAZING STRIPS COOPERATING WITH SAID GLASS STOP MOUNTING MEANS TO RELEASABLY RETAIN SAID GLASS STOPS IN POSITION ON SAID INNER WEB, EACH GLAZING STRIP BEING SUFFICIENTLY RESILIENT TO PERMIT THE GLASS STOP ON WHICH IT IS CARRIED TO BE FORCED INWARDLY TRANSVERSELY OF SAID INNER WEB TO DISENGAGE THE GLASS STOP SECOND ARM FROM SAID MOUNTING MEANS TO PERMIT REMOVAL OF THE STOP.