Abstract: A nosing and drip cap are mounted to each other by elements of the nosing and drip cap. A hook receptacle and/or a stud receptacle extend the length of the nosing. A cooperating hook and/or stud extend from the drip cap. The drip cap is secured to the nosing by engaging the hook in the hook receptacle and/or the stud in the stud receptacle, in a loose engagement combination. While nosing and drip cap are engaged, the assembly can be secured together by (i) installing fasteners spaced along the length of the assembly or, where hook and hook receptacle are used, (ii) bending the assembly into an arcuate configuration, with the inner flange of the nosing to the inside of the bend. While being bent, the hook and hook receptacle create a tightened locking-type engagement between themselves. Either way, the nosing and the drip cap are substantially permanently locked together.

Abstract: Interfaces between nosings on respective frames and frame combinations to be joined. Each nosing has an elongate receptacle extending along the nosing length. A remote wall of the receptacle is displaced from the remainder of the nosing. The remote wall on the nosings to be joined can be generally aligned with and proximate the receptacle opening on the other nosing. With the remote walls and respective receptacles aligned, the frames are moved toward each other with the remote walls on the respective nosings entering the receptacles, with the remote walls in generally facing relationship with each other. Spacings and tolerances of the remote walls, and corresponding receptacles, can optionally provide frictionally-restrained engagements of the remote walls in the receptacles, whereby the frames can be re-oriented with limited assembly support to such assembly without disengagement of the nosings from each other by the action of gravity.

Abstract: Door frames, frame kits, component parts, jamb coverings, and depth extenders, all constructed with fiber reinforced pultruded structures, for entrance doors to buildings, both garage entrance doors and personnel entry doors. Some embodiments have a closed back wall. Others have an open cavity at the back wall to receive a reinforcing substrate. Some embodiments include a pultruded nosing block. Some embodiments comprise a pultruded depth extender, mountable on a jamb base to extend the depth of a door jamb. A mounting finger and a locking stud on the depth extender are mountable in cavities in the jamb base. A depth extender can be used to extend the depth of either a garage door frame or a personnel entry door frame. In an in-swing door frame, a door latch-side abutment surface is located on the side wall of the jamb base.

Abstract: Interfaces between nosings on respective frames and frame combinations to be joined. Each nosing has an elongate receptacle extending along the nosing length. A remote wall of the receptacle is displaced from the remainder of the nosing. The remote wall on the nosings to be joined can be generally aligned with and proximate the receptacle opening on the other nosing. With the remote walls and respective receptacles aligned, the frames are moved toward each other with the remote walls on the respective nosings entering the receptacles, with the remote walls in generally facing relationship with each other. Spacings and tolerances of the remote walls, and corresponding receptacles, can optionally provide frictionally-restrained engagements of the remote walls in the receptacles, whereby the frames can be re-oriented with limited assembly support to such assembly without disengagement of the nosings from each other by the action of gravity.

Abstract: A nosing and drip cap are mounted to each other by elements of the nosing and drip cap. A hook receptacle and/or a stud receptacle extend the length of the nosing. A cooperating hook and/or stud extend from the drip cap. The drip cap is secured to the nosing by engaging the hook in the hook receptacle and/or the stud in the stud receptacle, in a loose engagement combination. While nosing and drip cap are engaged, the assembly can be secured together by (i) installing fasteners spaced along the length of the assembly or, where hook and hook receptacle are used, (ii) bending the assembly into an arcuate configuration, with the inner flange of the nosing to the inside of the bend. While being bent, the hook and hook receptacle create a tightened locking-type engagement between themselves. Either way, the nosing and the drip cap are substantially permanently locked together.

Abstract: Fiber reinforced polymeric pultruded cladding as jamb cover elements and mullion cover elements, for door frames and mullions, using pultruded structures as cladding over substrates. A jamb cover assembly includes a pultruded jamb plate and/or a pultruded nosing, and a mounting fin. The mounting fin extends from a distal side of the assembly. The frame can be secured in a doorway rough opening with the nosing assembled to the jamb plate, using the mounting fin for initial securement, optionally without assembly or disassembly of the frame at the construction site. Pultruded substrate covering covers both the outer surface and opposing sides of a mullion substrate. A pultruded mullion nosing is assembled to the substrate covering, and overlies part of the substrate cover, providing complete pultruded overlayment of the outer surface of the mullion substrate and spacing the front panel of the nosing from the outer surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Door frames, frame kits, component parts, jamb coverings, and depth extenders, all constructed with fiber reinforced pultruded structures, for entrance doors to buildings, both garage entrance doors and personnel entry doors. Some embodiments have a closed back wall. Others have an open cavity at the back wall to receive a reinforcing substrate. Some embodiments include a pultruded nosing block. Some embodiments comprise a pultruded depth extender, mountable on a jamb base to extend the depth of a door jamb. A mounting finger and a locking stud on the depth extender are mountable in cavities in the jamb base. A depth extender can be used to extend the depth of either a garage door frame or a personnel entry door frame. In an in-swing door frame, a door latch-side abutment surface is located on the side wall of the jamb base.

Abstract: A door frame assembly and method of mounting the same, which does not require the use of exterior fasteners to secure members of the door frame assembly to a support frame in a doorway of a building. A connecting member is securable to a support frame member. A doorjamb member is attachable to the connecting member. A trim member is attachable to the connecting member and the door jamb member. The connecting combinations between the connecting member, the door jamb member and the trim member are such that once the door frame assembly is fully assembled, the door jamb member and the trim member cannot be disconnected from the support frame member absent an intervening force.

Abstract: Door frame kits to be assembled into door frames and door frames assembled from such kits. A door frame kit includes a top member, and first and second side members. Open edges are defined along substantially the full lengths of extruded metal structures of the top and side members, and communicate with cavities in the respective extruded metal structures. Each cavity has interiorly-facing side walls extending along substantially the full lengths of the extruded metal structures. Substrates are received in the respective cavities of the top and side members. The substrates extend outwardly of the cavities through the respective open edges. The substrates structurally reinforce the extruded metal structures between the side walls along substantially the full lengths of the extruded metal structures. Preferably the extruded metal structures are extruded aluminum structures and the substrates are wood.