Movable or removable closures – Closure seal; e.g. – striker gasket or weatherstrip – With fluid drain – or closure face mounted deflector; e.g.,...
Patent
1988-08-16
1989-05-09
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Movable or removable closures
Closure seal; e.g., striker gasket or weatherstrip
With fluid drain, or closure face mounted deflector; e.g.,...
296154, E06B 716
Patent
active
048276707
ABSTRACT:
A water removing structure of a roof weather strip to be installed to a roof side section and a front pillar section of a hard top car. The roof weather strip is composed of a main seal member which encloses and seals a circumferential edge portion of a door glass, and an auxiliary seal member top end of which abuts on the car inside surface of the door glass for sealing, and top end portion of the front door is provided with a mirror bracket of triangular shape which closes an angle containing portion between the door belt line and the front pillar when the door is closed. A water removing groove is formed on the mirror bracket from position between the abutting portions of the main and auxiliary seal members of the roof weather strip to position leading to the door panel inside of the front door so as to guide water. Water entering in a cylindrical space constituted by the main and auxiliary seal members and the car inside surface of the door glass or the mirror bracket flows through the water removing groove into the door panel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2451399 (1948-10-01), Martin
patent: 4475766 (1984-10-01), McKee
patent: 4494790 (1985-01-01), Omura
Akachi Keiji
Kogiso Harumi
Anderson Gerald A.
Dorner Kenneth J.
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Toyoda Gosei Co,., Ltd.
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