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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
McDUFFEE BRADFORD, OF DECATUR, TEXAS.
WEATHER-STRIP.
SPEOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,559, dated July 4, 1898.
Application filed July 19,1892, Serial No. 440,517. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, McDUFFEE BRADFORD, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Deca-
tur, in the county of Wise and State of Texas,
5 have invented a new and useful Weather-
Strip, of which the following is a specification.
The invention relates to improvements in
weather strips.
The object of the present invention is to
xo simplify and improve the construction of
weather strips, and to provide an inexpensive
one which will be operated by the opening
and closing of the door, and which will not
interfere with carpets, and which will when
15 the door is closed effectually exclude wind,
rain, dust and the like.
The invention consists in the construction
and novel combination and arrangement of
parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated
20 in the accompanying drawings and pointed
out in the claim hereto appended.
In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a weather strip constructed in accord-
ance with this invention and shown applied
25 to a door. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse
sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective
view of the weather strip removed.
Like numerals of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts in all the figures of the draw-
30 ings.
1 designates a weather strip constructed of
sheet metal and hinged at its lower face to a
sill 2 and adapted when a door 3 is closed to
assume a vertical position to close the crack
35 at the bottom of the door. The hinges 4 are
arranged between the sides of the weather
strip, and the sill 2 is provided with a longi-
tudinal drain opening 5 in which the lower
edge or flange of the weather strip is received
40 when the latter is in a vertical position. The
weather strip is actuated by a weight 6, which
is connected with the outer portion of the
weather strip by a link wire 7 secured to an
eye of the weight, which is of a size to play in
45 the drain opening, and the eye on the lowerface of the weather strip. When the door is
closed, the weight is free to act and raises the
weather strip into a vertical position as shown
in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.
It will be seen that the weather strip is 50o
simple and inexpensive in construction and
effective in operation, and that when the door
is open it holds the weather strip in a hori-
zontal position, and that as soon as the door
closes the weather strip will assume a verti- 55
cal position.
The weather strip is extended beyond the
door to make it more effectual.
The opening for the weather strip in the
sill of the door will permit water from rain, 6o
and snow to pass through the floor without
gaining access through the door, thereby
greatly increasing the effectiveness of the
weather strip and preventing any accumula-
tion of water around the door and avoiding 65
any leakage through the same.
What I claim is--
The combination of a door, a door-frame
provided in the sill with a longitudinal drain
opening extending through the floor to permit 70
water to fall beneath the same, a hinged
weather strip consisting of a flat plate con-
nected between its side edges to the inner side
of the drain opening of the sill and forming a
narrow flange extending down into the drain 75
opening when the weather strip is in a verti-
cal position, a weight arranged beneath the
sill and of a size to play in the drain opening,
and the link 7 hingedly connected to the
weather strip and to the weight and depend- 8o
ing from the former and arranged in the drain
opening, substantially as described.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as
my own I have hereto affixed my signature in
the presence of two witnesses.
MDUFFEE BRADFORD.
Witnesses:
ToM W. BROWN,
W. M. EAGLE.
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Bradford, McDuffee. Weather-Strip., patent, July 4, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173452/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.