Louvered Air Distributor Patents (Class 454/309)
  • Patent number: 5123224
    Abstract: A drainable louver comprises a frame composed of a sill, a head and a pair of side members forming a rectangular opening and a multiplicity of vertically spaced-apart louver blades extending across the opening between the side members and fastened to the side members. Each of the blades has a drainage trough extending along its lower front edge and terminating at each end adjacent a corresponding side member of the frame, and each of the side frame members has a base wall portion engaging the corresponding ends of the blades throughout their lateral extent. Each side member has a front flange portion defining with a front part of the base wall portion a vertical drainage channel located laterally of the corresponding ends of the drainage troughs of the louver blades on the side of the base wall portion opposite from the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Construction Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Olsen