Metal door

• US 8,534,027 B1
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Outdoor Spaces, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Outdoor Spaces, Inc.
• Inventors: Cullinane, Daniel J., Steele, Ryan D.
• Primary Examiner(s): KATCHEVES, BASIL S
• Application Number:
  US13/610,110
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 527/841.5, 528/001.3, 527/921, 527/841.3, 522/11
• US Class Current: 52/784.15
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2003/346 where the additional frame rotates around a vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/726 of metal

Abstract

A metal door comprising exterior and interior panel members secured together so as to create a thermal insulating air gap between the back side of the exterior panel member and the front side of the interior panel member.

Claims

1. A door comprising:

a metal external panel member having an upper end, a lower end, a first side edge, a second side edge, a front side and a back side;

a metal interior panel member having an upper end, a lower end, a first side edge, a second side edge, a front side and a back side;

said front side of said interior panel member being positioned adjacent said back side of said exterior panel member;

a first length of double-sided adhesive tape adhesively securing said front side of said interior panel member to said back side of said exterior panel member adjacent said upper ends thereof;

a second length of double sided adhesive tape adhesively securing said front side of said interior panel member to said back side of said exterior panel member adjacent said first side edges thereof;

a third length of double-sided adhesive tape adhesively securing said front side of said interior panel member to said back side of said exterior panel member adjacent said lower ends thereof;

a fourth length of double-sided adhesive tape adhesively securing said front side of said interior panel member to said back side of said exterior panel member adjacent said second side edges thereof;

said lengths of said double-sided adhesive tape having a thickness sufficient to create a sealed thermal insulating air gap between said back side of said exterior panel member and said front side of said interior panel member;

and a plurality of fasteners being secured to said back side of said exterior panel member and said front side of said interior panel member and extending therebetween;

said back side of said exterior panel member having a plurality of spaced-apart holes extending thereinto;

said front side of said interior panel member having a plurality of spaced-apart holes extending thereinto which register with said holes in said exterior panel member;

said fasteners being mounted in said registering holes to secure said exterior and interior panel members together.