Movable or removable closures – Closure seal; e.g. – striker gasket or weatherstrip – Held by snap fastener
Patent
1990-05-29
1991-03-12
Smith, Gary L.
Movable or removable closures
Closure seal; e.g., striker gasket or weatherstrip
Held by snap fastener
49498, E06B 716
Patent
active
049989464
ABSTRACT:
A weather strip to be attached along a door opening of a body of a motor vehicle has a base portion and a tubular sealing portion projecting from an outer surface of the base portion. The tubular sealing portion has a folded end portion which is formed by pressing so as to bond and close an end of the tubular sealing portion. The folded end portion has a nearly L-shaped cross section, and is composed of a bonded portion which covers the base portion, and an extension portion which nearly perpendicularly extends from one of side ends of the bonding portion. The side surface of the extension portion is a prolongation of the side surface of the unfolded tubular sealing portion, which faces the body surface of the motor vehicle when the weather strip is attached to the motor vehicle. The width of the sealing portion is nearly equal over the entire length thereof from its unfolded tubular portion to its folded end portion so that the sealing portion is naturally continued from its unfolded tubular portion to its folded end portion without any sudden change in shape whereby the appearance of the overall weather strip is improved.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3452481 (1969-07-01), Bailey
patent: 3922460 (1975-11-01), Jackson
patent: 4513044 (1985-04-01), Shigeki et al.
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Redman Jerry
Smith Gary L.
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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