Abstract: A door assembly having a viewing window for use with a clothes dryer cabinet has a mask frame for masking the view of the door assembly and for securing an inner window in the assembly. The door assembly further utilizes the hinge structure and a horizontally disposed retainer to retain the inner window in place when the door assembly is complete. The inner window is mounted within the door assembly to slope downwardly and rearwardly of the inner door frame support. When the door is closed, the sloping inner window is positioned to cover a lint trap opening in the dryer while optimizing space within the dryer due to the sloping window wall.

Abstract: A window or door assembly including a jamb member and a jamb liner having a fastener opening coupled along the jamb member. A sash is moveably coupled along the jamb liner. The window or door assembly includes a structural filler coupled over a portion of the jamb liner, and the structural filler substantially conceals the fastener opening. The structural filler includes a flange sized and shaped to engage with the sash, and the flange substantially prevents movement of the sash over the structural filler. In one option, the flange extends along the structural filler and the sash. The structural filler further includes a contact surface engaged with the jamb liner and a projection rotatably coupled with the jamb liner, and the structural filler rotates in a first direction around the projection.

Abstract: Wind resistance of a window mounting tilt sash between a pair of jamb liners is increased by braces that attach to frame sides of the jamb liners at the check rail region of the window. The braces have a profile that fits a frame side profile of the jamb liners, including brace channels that receive and support shoe channels of the jamb liners. The braces help the jamb liners resist deformation in response to wind force and significantly increase the wind resistance of the window.

Abstract: A sealing jamb liner 10 for double-hung window sash includes a thick and rigid resin extrusion 24 having a pair of sash runs 11 and 12 separated by a parting bead 13. A pair of extruded flange elements 25 formed of a thin, resilient, and low spring rate resin material are mounted along respective outer sash run edges 21 and 22 opposite parting bead 13. Each flange element 25 has a sealing 27 angled obliquely of the adjacent sash run and disposed for resiliently engaging and sealing between a sash and an adjacent trim stop.

Abstract: The specification discloses an improved jamb liner and novel friction shoe balance arrangement for a cottage-style window enabling the friction shoe balance, or positioner, concept to be utilized with window sash having a plow of nonrectangular cross section, and in "non take-out" type double hung or vertical slidable windows. The jamb liner includes a body securable to the jamb and a channel in which the friction shoe rides extending into the sash plow. The channel comprises a pair of sidewalls projecting outwardly from the jamb liner body into the plow, each sidewall including end portions shaped to generally conform to the nonrectangular portion of the plow, and disposed along and adjacent the latter. A pair of shoe abutment walls extend inwardly toward one another from the opposite channel sidewalls, and provide generally coplanar surfaces against which the friction shoe bears.

Abstract: Weatherstripping for a double-hung window includes horizontal and vertical weatherstripping elements arranged so that each horizontal weatherstripping element forms a sliding seal with each vertical weatherstripping element to provide a complete seal in a double-hung window without the need for supplemental crack sealing members.

Abstract: A unitary weatherstripping and self-balancing sash guide for slidingly embracing the juxtaposed side edges of a pair of double-hung inner and outer window sash units, and guiding their sliding opening and closing movement in a window opening, comprises an arched portion spanning the side edge of the window opening and having a central parting bead protruding into the window opening, inner and outer terminal flanges protruding from the arched portion into the window opening, and two slanting wing flanges respectively extending cantilever-fashion from the parting bead diagonally toward the arched portion and the respective terminal flanges, forming therewith a pair of channel-shaped grooves each embracing the side edge of one sash unit, whereby each of the two sash units is slidingly gripped in resilient tractive balancing engagement between a terminal flange and a facing slanting wing flange resiliently deformed by the embraced sash unit.