Sound deadener for window counterbalance spring

• US 4,854,558 A
• Filed: 07/07/1988
• Issued: 08/08/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Caldwell Manufacturing Company
• Original Assignee: Caldwell Manufacturing Company
• Inventors: Newton, William P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oberleitner, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US07/216,224
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 267/33, 267/166, 267/166.1, 267/167, 267/174, 267/70-74, 267/148, 267/149, 267/182, 267/286, 16/197, 16/DIG. 6, 16/DIG. 16, 16/DIG. 36, 16/DIG. 42, 428/379, 181/208, 181/294, 181/296, 427/348, 427/178, 427/208.2, 118/63
• US Class Current: 267/74
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 13/1253 with canted-coil torsion springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/148 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 1/024 Covers or coatings therefor F16F1/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/06 Anti-rattle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/294 including metal or compound thereof [excluding glass, ceramic and asbestos]

Abstract

A window counterbalance spring (10, 30) enclosed within a spring cover (35) or tube (25) is sound deadened against rattling by having its outer surface (16) coated with a hot melt adhesive (11). Hot melt (11) is preferably sprayed on outer surface (16) of the spring, at it is wound; and for rotationally tensioned springs (10) surrounding twisted rods (20), some hot melt is deposited on the interior (17) of the spring to cushion its vibration against the twisted rod.

Claims

1. A sound deadened window counterbalance spring comprising:

a. a spring cover arranged around said window counterbalance spring;

b. a thermoplastic hot melt adhesive adhered to an outward facing surface of said window counter-balance spring;

c. said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive covering a covered portion of said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring, and leaving uncovered a bare portion of said outward facing surface of said window counter-balance spring; and

d. said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive on said outward facing surface of said window counter-balance spring being interposed between said spring cover and said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring to deaden any rattle sound resulting from contact between said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring and an inward facing surface of said spring cover.

2. The sound deadened spring of claim 1 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is formed as a bead adhered to said covered portion of said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring.

3. The sound deadened spring of claim 1 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is also adhered to a portion of an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring where said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is interposed between said window counterbalance spring and a twisted rod that said window counterbalance spring surrounds, to deaden any rattle sound resulting from contact between said inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring and said twisted rod within said window counterbalance spring.

4. The sound deadened spring of claim 3 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is formed as a bead.

5. The sound deadened spring of claim 1 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is broken into a multitude of filaments interlaced with each other and bonded to said spring so that regions of bonding of said filaments to said spring constitute said covered portion of said outward facing surface.

6. The sound deadened spring of claim 5 wherein said window counterbalance spring is a rotationally tensioned helical spring surrounding a twisted rod, and a portion of said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive filaments are interlaced on an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring to be interposed between said window counterbalance spring and said rod.

7. The sound deadened spring of claim 5 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is also adhered to an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring where said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is interposed between said window counterbalance spring and a twisted rod that said window counterbalance spring surrounds.

8. The sound deadened spring of claim 1 wherein said spring cover is a tube.

9. A sound deadener applied to a window counterbalance spring, said sound deadener comprising:

a. a thermoplastic hot melt adhesive adhered to an outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring so that said thermplastic hot melt adhesive covers only a portion of said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring;

b. a spring cover arranged around said outer surface of said window counterbalance spring; and

c. said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive being interposed between said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring and an inward facing surface of said spring cover so that said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive deadens any rattle sound resulting from contact between said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring and said inward facing surface of said spring cover.

10. The sound deadener of claim 9 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is formed as a bead adhered to said covered portion of said outward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring.

11. The sound deadener of claim 9 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is also adhered to a portion of an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring where said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is interposed between said window counterbalance spring and a twisted rod that said window counterbalance spring surrounds, to deaden any rattle sound resulting from contact between said inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring and said twisted rod within said window counterbalance spring.

12. The sound deadener of claim 11 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is formed as a bead.

13. The sound deadener of claim 12 wherein said spring cover is a tube.

14. The sound deadener of claim 9 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is broken into a multitude of filaments interlaced with each other and bonded to said spring so that regions of bonding of said filaments to said spring constitute said covered portion of said outward facing surface.

15. The sound deadener of claim 14 wherein said window counterbalance spring is a rotationally tensioned helical spring surrounding a twisted rod, and a portion of said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive filaments are interlaced on an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring to be interposed between said window counterbalance spring and said rod.

16. The sound deadener of claim 14 wherein said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is also adhered to an inward facing surface of said window counterbalance spring where said thermoplastic hot melt adhesive is interposed between said window counterbalance spring and a twisted rod that said window counterbalance spring surrounds.

17. The sound deadener of claim 9 wherein said spring cover is a tube.