Weather stripping, particularly for the movable glass of an automotive vehicle

• US 4,970,102 A
• Filed: 05/09/1989
• Issued: 11/13/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hutchinson (Welltower, Inc.)
• Inventors: Guillon, Henri
• Primary Examiner(s): Epstein, Henry F.
• Application Number:
  US07/348,974
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 428/122, 428/358, 428/31, 296/93, 49/495, 49/497, 49/498, 49/490
• US Class Current: 428/122
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/17 provided with a low-friction material on the surface
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/277 for facilitating specific deformation of sealing parts, e.g. for ensuring proper folding
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 10/75 for sealing the lower part of the panes
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/2312 with two or more sealing-lines or -planes between the wing and part co-operating with the wing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24198 Channel-shaped edge component [e.g., binding, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2902 Channel shape

Abstract

Weather stripping is provided for a movable surface, more particularly an automotive vehicle window, comprising at least one lip or profiled member intended to come into contact with the movable surface and which is partially coated with a material promoting sliding, wherein said material is disposed at least over the active portion of said profiled member, in a plurality of separate zones defining a discontinuous layer on the cross section of the weather stripping.

Claims

1. Weather stripping for a movable surface comprising at least one profiled sealing member, said sealing member including an active portion having an external surface intended to come into contact with said movable surface, a coating material promoting sliding, said coating material being disposed at least over said external surface of said active portion of said profiled member in a plurality of separate zones defining a discontinuous layer wherein the zones containing said coating material are separated by areas substantially free of said material.

2. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 1, wherein said external surface of said profiled member has indentations between at least one of said separate zones of said discontinuous layer.

3. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 1, wherein said movable surface is a surface particularly for the movable glass of an automotive vehicle having a bay within which said glass slides, and said weather stripping includes a body adapted to be fixed to said bay, a portion of said profiled member not coated with said discontinuous layer being fast with said body, and being formed of a material having a hardness and/or rigidity equal to or different from that carrying said discontinuous layer.

4. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 1, wherein said profiled member is tubular and the internal surface thereof has an indentation substantially opposite a zone of said layer and substantially opposite the middle of said layer.

5. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least one of the ends of the profiled member has an indentation on its external surface.

6. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 5, wherein said one at least of said ends of the profiled member has a swelling on its internal surface.

7. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 6, wherein the profile of said indentation of the end is parallel to that of said swelling.

8. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 3, wherein said body has projections extending therefrom and made from a material having a rigidity and/or hardness different from that of the rest of said body and possibly having the same rigidity and/or hardness as the portion of the weather stripping coated with said layer.

9. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 3, intended more particularly to form a slide for a movable glass of an automotive vehicle, wherein said body for fixing to the bay and said sealing member are coextruded from elastomer material, the elastomer material of said body having a greater hardness than that which is coextruded therewith and than that of said coating material.

10. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 1, wherein said material of some of said discontinuous layer is from the group consisting of polytetrafluorethylene and polyolefin.

11. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 10, wherein said discontinuous layer is made by coextrusion with another portion of said weather stripping.

12. The weather stripping as claimed in claim 1, wherein said discontinuous layer is made by dipping or spraying with masking or pre-treatment of said areas separating said zones. known as "bottom glass sealing profile"

13. Weather stripping for a movable surface, comprising:

a profiled sealing member, said sealing member including an active portion having an external surface adapted to contact said movable surface;

a discontinuous layer of a coating material, of a type facilitating sliding, disposed upon said active portion of said profiled member in a plurality of mutually spaced zones;

said active portion of said sealing member having at least one indentation within said external surface thereof at a location between two adjacent ones of said zones of said discontinuous layer of said coating material.

14. Weather stripping as in claim 13, wherein said active portion of said profiled member has a plurality of said indentations, each of said indentations extending into said exterior surface of said portion at a location between adjacent ones of said zones.

15. Weather stripping as in claim 14, wherein each of said indentations spans substantially the entire distance between thereto adjacent ones of said zones.

16. Weather stripping as in claim 13, wherein said coating material in at least one of said zones is substantially smooth-surfaced and free from indentations.

17. Weather stripping as in claim 16, wherein said coating material in each of said zones is substantially smooth-surfaced and free from indentations and protuberances.