Stackable weatherstrip

• US 10,352,093 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2016
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Royal Group Incorporated (TTWF LP)
• Original Assignee: Royal Group Incorporated (TTWF LP)
• Inventors: Mitchell, Steven A., Rabago, Robert E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, Katherine W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Massad, Abe
• Application Number:
  US15/377,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20170175437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 494961
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/485 Sectional doors
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/231 with a solid sealing part
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2314 characterised by the material
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2316 used as a seal between the floor and the wing

Abstract

A weatherstrip with improved stackability has a rigid base portion including a planar surface and a flexible strip portion adhered over a corner of the base portion and extending outwardly at an angle to the planar surface of the base portion.

Claims

1. A garage door weatherstrip comprising:

a rigid base portion including top, bottom, first side, and second side outermost surfaces of the garage door weatherstrip of a first rigid material;

a flexible strip portion of a second flexible material adhered to a vertex of a corner of the base portion and extending outwardly from the vertex of the corner, wherein said corner is located where the top and first side outermost surfaces meet; and

a slanted face opposite said corner of the base portion to which the flexible strip portion is adhered, wherein the slanted face slants in the same direction as the flexible strip portion and the first side outermost surface joins the slanted face to said corner, and wherein, in a resting position, the flexible strip portion slants away from the vertex to a furthest distal edge of the flexible strip portion and the flexible strip portion makes obtuse angles relative to both the top outermost and the first side outermost surfaces of the base portion.

2. The weatherstrip of claim 1 wherein the flexible strip portion is tapered as progressively thinner from the corner of the base portion to the furthest distal edge of the strip portion.

3. The weatherstrip of claim 1 wherein the flexible strip portion is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion.

4. The weatherstrip of claim 2 wherein the base portion is cellular polyvinyl chloride and the strip portion is non-cellular material.

5. The weatherstrip of claim 4 wherein the flexible strip portion is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion.

6. The weatherstrip of claim 1 wherein the base portion is cellular polyvinyl chloride and the strip portion is non-cellular material.

7. The weatherstrip of claim 6 wherein the flexible strip portion is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion.

8. A weatherstrip being a first garage door weatherstrip comprising a rigid base portion including top, bottom, first side, and second side outermost surfaces of a first rigid material and a flexible strip portion of a second flexible material adhered to a vertex of a corner of the base portion and extending outwardly and slanted from the vertex of the corner to a furthest distal edge of the strip portion such that the strip portion makes obtuse angles with both the top and first side outermost surfaces when the strip portion is in a resting position, wherein the first side outermost surface connects the corner to a face slanted in the same direction as the flexible strip portion, and wherein said first weatherstrip is stacked on a second garage door weatherstrip having an identical structure, and wherein a flexible strip portion of the second weatherstrip is free to slant outward without contacting a base portion of the first weatherstrip.

9. The weatherstrip of claim 8 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is tapered as progressively thinner from the corner of the base portion to the outermost furthest distal edge of the strip portion.

10. The weatherstrip of claim 9 wherein the base portion of the first weatherstrip is cellular polyvinyl chloride and the strip portion of the first weatherstrip is non-cellular material.

11. The weatherstrip of claim 10 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion of the first weatherstrip.

12. A weatherstrip being a first garage door weatherstrip comprising a rigid base portion including top, bottom, first side, and second side outermost surfaces of the weatherstrip of a first rigid material and a flexible strip portion of a second flexible material adhered to a vertex of a corner of the base portion and extending outwardly and diagonally from the vertex of the corner when the flexible strip portion is in a resting position, wherein said first weatherstrip is stacked on a second garage door weatherstrip having an identical structure, and wherein a flexible strip portion of the second weatherstrip slants outward in a resting position from the vertex of the corner of the base portion of the second weatherstrip to a furthest distal edge of the strip portion of the second weatherstrip such that the second weatherstrip'"'"'s strip portion makes obtuse angles with both the top and first side outermost surfaces of the second weatherstrip'"'"'s base portion and with substantially no contact with a base portion of the first weatherstrip by extending beneath slanted edge of the first weatherstrip that has a face slanted in the same direction as the flexible strip portion of the second weatherstrip and wherein the slanted edge of the first weatherstrip is joined to said corner of the first weatherstrip by the first side outermost surface of the first weatherstrip.

13. The weatherstrip of claim 12 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is tapered as progressively thinner from the corner of the base portion to the furthest distal edge.

14. The weatherstrip of claim 13 wherein the base portion of the first weatherstrip is cellular polyvinyl chloride and the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is non-cellular material.

15. The weatherstrip of claim 14 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion of the first weatherstrip.

16. The weatherstrip of claim 12 wherein the base portion of the first weatherstrip is cellular polyvinyl chloride and the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is non-cellular material.

17. The weatherstrip of claim 16 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion of the first weatherstrip.

18. The weatherstrip of claim 12 wherein the flexible strip portion of the first weatherstrip is an extrudate and extrusion bonded to the corner of the base portion of the first weatherstrip.