Abstract: A closure seal member for capping the perimeter recesses presented between a closure and the surrounding fixed frame assembly. The closure seal member includes a longitudinally rigid support member adapted for interlocking engagement with a frame member of the assembly; and a sealing strip carried at the exterior face of the support member, with a portion thereof positioned to be compressed between the angle member and the closure, and a portion thereof exposed to view. The sealing strip has end portions extending beyond the opposite ends of the support member. At the juncture of adjacent, angularly disposed frame members, the sealing strip end portions of adjacent seal members are engaged to provide a neat corner presentation. The overall length of the support member is less than that of the frame member. Field cutting of metal is avoided.

Abstract: A panel manufacturing machine adapted to produce panels of building blocks; the machine involving the formation of a horizontal course of blocks in end-to-end relation to each other with mortared head joints between ends of the blocks and with bed mortar on top of the blocks, which course is transferred as a unit to be assembled with other courses of blocks to produce a panel. Further, the machine can progressively sense a modular measurement longitudinally of said course to control the overall length of each course when assembled and mortared together.