Drainage guide for automobile window

• US 4,962,601 A
• Filed: 10/11/1989
• Issued: 10/16/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Peter N. Gold
• Original Assignee: Peter N. Gold
• Inventors: Gold, Peter N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Gary L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US07/419,888
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 49/374, 49/375, 49/377, 49/476, 49/502, 49/408, 52/790, 296/208, 296/154
• US Class Current: 49/374
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/25 characterised by water drainage means

Abstract

The present invention relates to a drainage guide assembly for directing the flow of water that gets into the outside part of the door of an automobile around the auto glass window. The guide comprises a sloping channel gutter affixed to the outside of the window and positioned below the belt line sill of the window. The gutter is an elastomeric material extruded onto the glass window.

Claims

1. A drainage guide for a vehicle window panel positioned for vertical movement within a door of the vehicle, said vehicle door having a belt line seal, comprising:

a vehicle glass window panel;

a water drip gutter adhesively afffixed to said window panel outside outside window surface for guttering water that collects and passes below the belt line sill of a vehicle door cavity, within said cavity for the useful function of directing the movement of said water to a lower corner of the window panel;

said gutter comprises an elastomeric material extruded onto aid outside window surface;

said elastomeric material being extruded onto said outside window surface and being applied prior to said glass panel being installed into said vehicle door cavity or said elastomeric material extruded onto said outside surface after said window panel has been installed into said vehicle door cavity;

mounting means attached to said vehicle window panel for positioning said window panel during vertical movement; and

said gutter being affixed to said window panel at a position below said belt sill and above said mounting means said gutter being independent from any means for mounting the glass window panel within the vehicle door.

2. The drainage guide of claim 1, wherein said mounting means comprises two spaced apart U-shaped brackets.

3. The drainage guide of claim 1, wherein said gutter has two ends, with one end higher than the other end, so as to cause the water to flow downwardly from the higher end to the lower end.

4. The drainage guide of claim 3, wherein said gutter has a higher end near the front of the window panel and

said panel slopes downwardly to a lower end near the rear of the window pane.

5. The drainage guide of claim 3, wherein said gutter has a higher end near the rear of the window panel and

said panel slopes downwardly to a lower end near the front of the window panel.

6. The drainage guide of claim 1, wherein said gutter has a channel with a flat bottom surface for catching said water.

7. The drainage guide of claim 1, wherein said gutter has a channel with a concave upward surface of catching said water.

8. The drainage guide of claim 1, wherein said vehicle is an automobile;

and

wherein said panel is an automobile safety plate glass window panel.

9. A drainage guide for a vehicle window panel positioned for vertical movement within a door of the vehicle said vehicle door having a belt line seal comprising:

a vehicle glass window panel;

a water drip gutter adhesively affixed to said window panel outside window surface for guttering water than collects and passes below the belt line sill of a vehicle door cavity, within said cavity for the useful function of directing the movement of said water to a lower corner of the window panel; and

said gutter comprises an elastomeric material extruded onto said outside window surface;

said elastomeric material being extruded onto said outside window surface and being applied prior to said glass panel being installed into said vehicle door cavity or said elastomeric material extruded onto said outside surface after said window panel has been installed into said vehicle door cavity; and

said butter being independent from any means for mounting the glass window panel within the vehicle door.