Sliding door sill construction

• US 5,341,600 A
• Filed: 02/08/1993
• Issued: 08/30/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marvin Lumber & Cedar CO
• Original Assignee: Marvin Lumber & Cedar CO
• Inventors: Heppner, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): REDMAN, JERRY E
• Application Number:
  US08/015,068
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 49/408, 49/467, 49/469, 49/471, 49/404, 49/496.1, 49/489.1, 49/475.1, 52/207, 52/209
• US Class Current: 49/471
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/4618 the sliding wing being arranged beside a fixed wing E06B3/4627 takes precedence

Abstract

A door sill in a frame mounting a fixed door panel and a sliding door panel movable along a longitudinally-extending track wherein the sliding door panel is disposed inwardly of the fixed door panel for movement thereof. The door sill comprising a sill floor external to the portion of an opening defined by the frame which is unobstructed by the fixed door panel. The door sill further comprising a platform elevated above the sill floor intermediate the sliding door panel track and the fixed door panel and abutting the sliding door panel track to define a drainage channel. The door sill further comprises a weatherstrip, having a pair of legs, extending along an outer surface of the track along which the sliding door panel moves whereby the first leg being generally parallel to and engaged against the track along which the sliding door is movable and a second generally planar leg being hinged to a top edge of the first leg and the second leg is biased upwardly and away from the first leg and into engagement with a bottom edge of the sliding door panel.

Claims

1. A door sill for receipt in a frame mounting a fixed door panel at one end thereof and a sliding door panel movable along a longitudinally-extending track, defined by said sill, generally parallel to the fixed door panel and able to close a portion of an opening defined within the frame which is unobstructed by the fixed door panel, wherein the sliding door panel is disposed inwardly of the fixed door panel for movement, comprising:

(a) a sill floor external to the portion of the opening, defined within the frame, which is unobstructed by the fixed door panel;

(b) a platform, elevated above said sill floor, intermediate the sliding door panel track and the fixed door panel, extending substantially the length of the fixed door panel and abutting, at an inner end thereof, the sliding door panel track to define, in part, a drainage channel;

(c) a weather strip, having a pair of discrete legs, extending along an outer surface of the longitudinally-extending track along which the sliding door panel moves at least the length of the opening defined within the frame which is unobstructed by the fixed door panel, a first leg of said weather strip being generally planar, and generally parallel to, and engaged against the longitudinally-extending track along which the sliding door panel is movable, and a second generally planar leg of said weather strip being hinged, at a top edge thereof, to a top edge of said first leg; and

(d) means for biasing said second leg upwardly and away from said first leg and into engagement with a bottom edge of the sliding door panel.

2. The door sill of claim 1 further comprising a generally vertically-extending wall intersecting said platform and spaced outwardly from the longitudinally-extending track along which the sliding door panel moves, said generally vertically-extending wall functioning as a support for the fixed door panel, said generally vertically-extending wall, said platform, and the longitudinally-extending track along which the sliding door panel moves, together, defining said channel, elevated above said sill floor.

3. The door sill of claim 2 wherein said generally vertically-extending wall has a plurality of longitudinally-spaced drain apertures formed therein, and further including weep seal means, disposed against an outer surface of said generally vertically-extending wall to facilitate drainage of moisture accumulating in said channel.

4. The door sill of claim 1 further including a dike carried by the longitudinally-extending track along which the sliding door panel moves, at a location below said weather strip.