Abstract: Structure of fillings for openings comprising a sheet material panel, a frame set, seals, a shock-dampening and absorption system, and insulation materials. With the filling structure for openings, the kinetic energy of a shock wave from an explosion is converted throughout the surface of the filling into a potential energy of the building, i.e. the kinetic energy of the shock wave is absorbed into the building.

Abstract: A vehicle door is disclosed that has a movable window and a window regulator including a regulator rail and a regulator slider slidably mounted on the regulator rail and engaging the window for movement between a closed position and a fully open position. The door also has a window down stop stabilizer assembly including a position detecting assembly that detects when the window is in the fully open position, a bumper movable between a first position spaced from the window and a second position in contact with the window, and a bumper actuator that moves the bumper into and out of contact with the window. When the window is in the fully open position, the bumper actuator will move the bumper into the second position and when the window is not in the fully open position, the bumper actuator will move the bumper into the first position.

Abstract: A security door closure system for cruise ships and other similar public entrance points to prevent terrorist attack or ship take-over is needed. Cruise ship passenger and ship provisioning entrance gangplanks pass through large hydraulically operated shell doors. The gangplank must be removed to close the shell door. The quick close security door system (Door-Gate) is a portable bullet resistant rapid close door system that is placed in conjunction with the gangplank or other entry system, which when closed prevents forced entry. A single lever either remotely or manually operated immediately closes the doors, which then cannot be forced opened from the entrance side.

Abstract: A window assembly configured for installation in a recessed window aperture comprises one or more transparent fixed position panes, one or more sliding panes, and a mounting frame. The mounting frame comprises at least a substantially full-circumference, molded plastic frame member and reinforcement integral with the frame member. The mounting frame at least partially defines a window opening. The mounting frame, e.g., the frame member, forms upper and lower slider runways extending laterally above and below the window opening. The sliding pane is slidably positioned in the upper and lower slider runways for sliding movement between open and closed positions. The mounting frame mounts the fixed position pane(s) by adhesive surface bonding to the interior surface of the fixed position pane. The exterior surface of the fixed position pane is free of adhesive.

Abstract: A window guide assembly for an automobile window includes at least one guide portion provided in the main body of an automobile door for guiding movement of the window, and also includes a plurality of contact members provided on opposing portions of the guide portion. The contact members are arranged to oppose the window so that the contact members slidably contact the inner and outer surfaces of the side edge of the window. The guide portion is constituted by a lower sash provided in the main body of the door. The contact members, provided on at least one side of the opposing portions, are elastic. The contact members are claw-shaped, in approximately the form of a C-shaped cross-section, and only one end of the C-shaped cross section of each of the claw-shaped members is fixed to the lower sash. Further, the contact members may be removably fixed by mounting the contact members in mounting portions of the lower sash.

Abstract: An extruded window jamb liner which includes at least one discontinuous opening of predetermined length and location for the sash balance connection, with the remainder of the wall in which such opening is formed left intact to provide a spring cover which is integral with the remainder of the jamb liner.

Abstract: A coextruded plastic spring member is disclosed which is bendably disposable between first and second member to create a spring force therebetween. The spring member includes an elongated base formed from a first plastic material which is engageable by the first member. An elongated first spring portion formed from a second plastic material that is resilient and has a predetermined spring characteristic is coextruded with the base member. An elongated second spring portion is coextruded with and extends from the first spring portion and is formed from a third plastic material having a spring characteristic stiffer than that of the first spring portion, with the second spring portion being engageable by the second member. The first and second spring portions are constructed so that the first spring portion is under compressive loading when the second spring portion is bendably engaged by the second member.

Abstract: A jamb liner is provided for a window assembly including a frame and a sash operably mounted in the frame by use of the jamb liner. The jamb liner includes a sash-engaging portion having at least one pair of opposing wall sections and a bottom wall section defining a channel. An air-sealing portion extends from the opposing wall section for sealingly engaging the frame to prevent undesired flow of air between the jamb liner and the window frame. The air-sealing portion includes a root wall section that extends at an angle to one of the opposing wall sections, a resilient wall section that extends from the root wall section, and a frame-engaging wall section that extends from the resilient wall section.

Abstract: A jamb liner is mounted in the side jamb tracks of a window frame to mount window units of double hung windows for slidable movement between opened and closed positions. The liner includes transversely spaced channel guides, each guide mounting a guide member that is attached to the adjacent window unit. Flanges are joined to the guides for forming a close fit with the adjacent window unit while, to each guide, there is joined a wing to form a seal with the web of the adjacent jamb to block fluid flow between the window units and the side jamb from one transverse side of the unit sash to the other. The wings of the liner are arcuately curved to transversely diverge from one another in a direction toward the jamb web. The wings are of a substantially greater resiliency than the rest of the liner, said rest of the liner being semi-rigid and made of extruded plastic.

Abstract: An interior storm window assembly, mounted to an interior building wall over a window opening containing a prime window therein is provided, having double hung, vertically movable window pane members received within opposing, self-locating vertical channels and pivotally attached to adjustable weight balancing elements within those channels. The frame structure of the window assembly, including the peripheral rail about each window pane member and the vertical channels, is formed from plastic material, such as vinyl, having low thermal conductivity, and a rigid, reinforcing rod, preferably of metal, is inserted within the plastic rail at the bottom of each window pane member. The vertical channels apply pressure inwardly to those peripheral rails to releasably retain the window pane members in vertical orientation as well as urge the peripheral rails laterally into sealing contact with the vertical channels.

Abstract: A hurricane window brace arranges brace elements at upper corners of a tilt sash so that the brace elements extend from a plow region of the sash into inside corners of a shoe channel in a resin jamb supporting the sash. When so positioned, the braces maintain a distance between the inside corners of the shoe channels and the plow regions of the sash so that the upper corners of the sash cannot be moved or tilted inward by wind force. Moving the braces upward or laterally, when wind force resistance is not required, allows the sash to tilt.

Abstract: A tilt window assembly is modified to include a pair of adjustable braces for controlling wind resistance. Each of the braces includes a bracing block and an adjustable stop. The bracing block fits within a shoe channel in a jamb liner and forms a fixed brace between the front face of the jamb liner and a side wall of the shoe channel. The adjustable stop extends from the bracing block through a back face of the liner and bears against the window frame. The adjustable stop together with the bracing block forms an adjustable length brace between the front face of the liner and the window frame.

Abstract: A window having a frame with at least two oppositely disposed side members, a top member, and a bottom member. Operably connected to each frame side member is a jamb liner having a front face and at least one jamb channel. Mounted within the frame is at least one sash having two oppositely disposed sides. The sash tilts away from the frame for easy cleaning. Within each jamb channel is a locking slide block for slidably and rotatably mounting the sash to the frame. A plough extends from the face of each jamb liner in the direction of the opposite frame side member. Each side of the sash has a sash groove for slidably mounting the sash in the frame by receiving adjacent ploughs. The plough and sash grooves have interlocking edges which engage to resist unintentional tilting of the sash.

Abstract: A jamb liner is provided for a window assembly including a frame and a sash operably mounted in the frame by use of the jamb liner. The jamb liner includes a sash-engaging portion having at least one pair of opposing wall sections and a bottom wall section defining a channel. An air-sealing portion extends from the opposing wall sections for sealingly engaging the frame to prevent undesired flow of air between the jamb liner and the window frame. The air-sealing portion includes a root wall section that extends at an angle to one of the opposing wall sections, a resilient wall section that extends from the root wall section, and a frame-engaging wall section that extends from the resilient wall section. In one form, a pair of the resilient wall sections are provided for supporting the frame-engaging wall section, one extending from each opposing wall section in a bellows-like arrangement.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a double hung window assembly which includes a frame and a pair of vertically moveable pane carrying sash members. The frame is a multi-chambered structural plastic extrusion with provision for carrying interior decorative members. The frame includes elongated jamb liners of different colors. The sash includes wooden members carried by the plastic extrusion and constructed to define a stop whereby a pane is secured along its edges to the frame and between the stop and the plastic extrusion. The sash plastic members are essentially identical and the wooden stop members are identical for both sashes. The sash includes grooves to engage the jamb liners. Both the frame and sash carry interior wooden members constructed to be received and held in position relative to the plastic members and conceal the plastic members from interior view.

Abstract: A window assembly has a sash vertically movable within a window jamb and positioned in the jamb by elongated side guide tubes enclosing counter balance means and resiliently biased partially into engagement with side ploughs of said sash, with the guide tubes extending outwardly from channels provided in opposed side jamb members. The guide tubes prevent lateral displacement of the sash as the sash is positioned within and moves from a window open to a window closed position within the plane of the jamb. The guide tubes can be reciprocally and resiliently compressed into the channels to release the ploughs and sash whereby the sash can be removed from the window construction.

Abstract: A polymeric sealing/spring strip and method of producing same. The polymeric sealing/spring strip of the present invention has several various embodiments which are based upon the incorporation of silicone rubber. Some of the embodiments are based on the formation of a resilient silicone rubber surface to provide a sealing/spring contact with an opposing surface. Other embodiments of the invention incorporate the silicone rubber in such way as to utilize its resilient properties to produce a sealing/spring strip which has improved mechanical resilience properties.The method of the present invention allows the production of a sealing/spring strip in accordance with the present invention by using extrusion techniques.

Abstract: A jamb liner for a double hung window wherein a length of the jamb liner is mounted to and overlies each of the jamb sides defining the window opening. Each jamb liner has a front profile corresponding to the side of the associated sash to slidably retain and guide the sash. The jamb liner is extruded from a plastic material that is at least semi-rigid. Coextruded on the rear face of the jamb liner is are a pair of longitudinal spring hinge members each having a first portion contiguous with the jamb liner formed from a resilient material having a spring characteristic, and a second portion extending from the first portion formed from a plastic material that is at least semi-rigid. In mounting the window assembly into the jamb opening, the spring hinge members bendably and springably engage the associated jamb sides to generate a uniform biasing force on the sides of the sashes.

Abstract: Counterbalance mechanisms for a vertically movable sash have components extending downward within guides on which the sash moves. The guides can move laterally of the sash to allow the sash to tilt and be removed from the window, and the counterbalance components are arranged within the guides to accommodate such lateral movement. Slots in the guides accommodate interconnections between counterbalance components within the guides and the sash running vertically against outward surfaces of the guides, and these interconnections also allow lateral movement of the guides and tilting of the sash. The guides are mounted on window jambs by resilient elements that bias the guides into engagement with sash grooves and also accommodate lateral movement of the guides out of the sash grooves, to allow the sash to tilt.

Abstract: A vertical sliding door for a compartment within the main door of a refrigerator. A frame is positioned adjacent the front of the door liner and has opposing vertical U-shaped channels. The sliding door includes a cover portion having laterally extending vertical runners that are slidably engaged in the respective channels. Each of the runners has a pair of notches into which glide members are snapped. Each of the glide member has a mid portion boss that extends laterally beyond the runner edge to provide a smooth bearing surface for engagement with the U-shaped channel. In the open position, at least one of the glide member bosses is received in a detent to hold the compartment door open.

Abstract: A single hung window jamblinder is utilized in combination with a window frame having a pair of vertical jambs, the jambs having a vertical, generally T-shaped pocket therein. The jambliner includes an elongated channel member having a base portion and a pair of upstanding sides, and a pair of leg portions mounted on the channel member sides which will receive the stile of a sash and allow for slidable movement of the sash therealong. A resilient vinyl layer is secured along the channel base, and is wider than the channel base so as to protrude beyond each side of the base. The vinyl layer will have a width substantially equal to the width of the jamb pocket to retain the jambliner in position in the jamb. A resiliently compressible sponge-like pad is mounted on the vinyl layer, and is thick enough to bias the vinyl layer against the edges of the jamb pocket so as to prevent airflow between the jamb pocket and the exterior of the jamb.

Abstract: A jamb liner has an elongated, firm, two sided substrate, at least one resilient, compressible body member attached to each side of the substrate, and an at least relatively low friction surface on at least one of the body members.

Abstract: A unitary vent guide for a metal vent frame in a metal window jamb is formed from a resilient and self-lubricating plastic such as nylon and includes a body portion which snaps into a slot in the vertical faces of the vent frame. An outer portion of the body is formed as a tension arm which contacts an inner vertical face of the jamb. A plurality of the guides is installed on each vertical vent frame face and maintains the vent frame centered.

Abstract: A sliding window having two or more removable sashes each having a sash frame supporting a sealed doubled glazing unit, the sash frame having a sash head and a sash sill made from a thermally insulating plastic material extrusion presenting a hollow structure with two spaced apart guiding legs adapted to engage into and slide along corresponding head track and sill track members. The head track and sill track members provide a pair of guide grooves for the slidable sash and a pair of guide grooves of the same spacing for the fixed sash. A runner or a plurality of runners of appropriate anti-friction material may be disposed between the guiding legs of the sash sill and they bear upon a horizontal bearing surface provided on the sill track between the guide grooves of the corresponding pair thereof. The runners prevent contact between the guiding legs of the sash sill and the bottom of the guide grooves of the sill track.

Abstract: A system of sliding doors commonly called patio-doors, having a wooden structure and well adapted for a household use. This device comprises a wooden rectangular frame receiving two glazed panels, one of which is sliding. The latter is supported on its lower portion by rollers. In the upper portion of the movable panel, the guiding system is constituted by a spring-loaded runner, preferably a channel whose two flanges extend into two parallel grooves on the top of the slidable panel. To remove the sliding panel from the frame supporting it, the operator lowers the retractable runner; this releases the upper portion of the panel from the frame and allows it to swing outwardly. A safety device is provided to prevent accidental removal of the upper portion of the sliding panel from the frame. Also described is a patio-door unit comprising two sets of glazed panels, each having one sliding panel.

Abstract: A door light having exterior and interior rectangular frames which are inserted into the door opening from opposite sides thereof. The exterior frame is molded of a plastics material as an integral, one-piece element having a rearwardly projecting tubular portion which slidably telescopes into a tubular portion defined by the interior frame. The interior and exterior frames slidably telescope until the flanges thereof abut the respective door faces to accommodate variable door widths. The exterior frame has a downwardly and forwardly sloped upper surface along the lower horizontal frame element which, in cooperation with an integral rear wall located behind the inner sash, causes all drainage along the sloped upper surface. Guide tracks are secured along the vertical sides of the frame and define outer and inner channels, with a top sash being stationarily fixed within the upper end of the outer channel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a window insulator and a frame therefor. The window insulator and frame comprise (a) one or more panels of an insulating material; (b) guides for the panels, including channels in which the panels are free to move; and (c) pressure-contact means for holding the guides in the casing of an existing window. One or more of the panels may consist of a thick layer of expanded polystyrene disposed between two films or sheetings of a substantially transparent (poly)methyl methacrylate resin, the polystyrene layer partially cut away to provide transparency for the window.

Abstract: A window conversion assembly is provided for use with a building window frame having a head jamb, opposed side jambs, and a bottom sill, the window assembly including a headpiece for mounting against the head jamb of the frame, a sill piece for mounting against the sill of the frame, with one or both of the headpiece and sill piece being resiliently mounted against the frame for accommodating any out-of-squareness of the frame, side members for mounting against the side jambs of the frame, and upper and lower sash windows for mounting within the headpiece, sill piece and side members to form a completed window assembly. The window assembly features full perimeter weather-stripping, utilizing high leaf weather-strips and corresponding deep receiving grooves in the windows to provide weather seals along the horizontal as well as vertical junctures between the window sashes and frame assembly members.

Abstract: An arrangement for guiding and supporting a windowpane is disclosed which is particularly suited for embodiment in association with the windowpanes of a tractor cab. The arrangement includes a unitary guide member with integral biasing means adapted to receive the marginal edge portion of a windowpane. The unitary guide is adapted for operative engagement with a support channel or track for slidable movement of the windowpane and guide together within the track. Retention means are provided to prevent undesired disengagement of the unitary guide from the support track. The track and unitary guide are preferably extruded elements which are formed from resilient material to effect the desired biased engagement of the guide with the track, and to accommodate fabrication and assembly of the arrangement.

Abstract: A thermal shutter device with vertical travel for use in combination with a window unit comprising a window frame & glass panels mounted in the window frame which is installed in a building outer periphery walls such as a dwelling, this device which is a thermal insulation construction comprising at least two thermal shutters with vertical travel & means to seal said thermal shutter device to create a sealed chamber between shutter device & window construction, the shutters can be of laminate construction with rigid insulation mounted in vertical track allowing shutters to slide up & down on compressible insulation slide means, when in closed mode they will greatly reduce heat transfer or infiltration either direction through said window construction, therefore reducing energy used to heat or cool said building, therefore helping our countries energy conservation program.

Abstract: Window insulating apparatus consisting of a plurality of low thermal conductivity panels slidably carried in a conventional window frame.

Abstract: A window assembly in which two window units are slidably mounted and in which one of the window units cannot be removed until the other has been removed. The removal of a first of the window units releases the sash locking member for lateral movement within the frame to permit overlapping lips of the other window unit and its associated frame to move out of overlapping engagement with one another.