Swinging door construction

• US 3,331,159 A
• Filed: 04/23/1965
• Issued: 07/18/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Billy J. Cooke, Jasper F. Mccoy
• Original Assignee: Billy J. Cooke, Jasper F. Mccoy
• Inventors: Cooke, Billy J., Mccoy, Jasper F.
• Application Number:
  US04/450,435
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• US Class Current: 49/371
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/043 Doors, covers A47F3/0434 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/36 with a single vertical axis of rotation at one side of the opening, or swinging through the opening wings requiring lifting before opening E06B3/52
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2309 with a hollow sealing part
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2314 characterised by the material

Claims

1. A SWINGING DOOR CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING A RECTANGULAR DOOR FRAME STRUCTURE DEFINED BY UPPER AND LOWER HORIZONTAL FRAME MEMBERS AND VERTICAL END FRAME MEMBERS CONNECTING SAID HORIZONTAL MEMBERS, A PLURALITY OF DOORS SWINGABLY MOUNTED IN SAID FRAME STRUCTURE EACH ON A VERTICAL PIVOT AXIS AND ARRANGED SIDE BY SIDE, A VERTICAL GASKET ON AT LEAST A FIRST VERTICAL EDGE OF EACH DOOR ENGAGEABLE IN SEALING RELATION WITH A SECOND VERTICAL EDGE OF AN ADJACENT DOOR, HORIZONTAL GASKET MEANS SEALING BETWEEN THE HORIZONTAL FRAME MEMBERS AND THE DOORS, A PLURALITY OF DOOR CUSHIONING MEANS, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY LOCATING ONE OF SAID CUSHIONING MEANS IN PREDETERMINED RELATION TO THE PIVOT AXIS OF EACH DOOR UPON LOCATION OF THE DOOR IN THE FRAME STRUCTURE, AND MEANS ON EACH DOOR ENGAGEABLE WITH THE ADJACENT CUSHIONING MEANS UPON OPENING OF THE DOOR.