Door frames and coverings

A building entrance door frame kit, comprising a top jamb member, and first and second side jamb members configured to be coupled to said top jamb member to make a door frame assembly, and wherein said door frame assembly is adapted to be attached to building structural members at a doorway rough opening in an exterior wall of a building, said top jamb member, and said first and second side jamb members each having a front, a rear, a door-facing side, a building-facing side, a length, a depth, and a thickness, and comprising:

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric covering structure having a front, a rear, a door-facing side, and an opposing building-facing side, a length defined along a long dimension of said pultruded structure, a depth between the front and the rear, and a thickness between the door-facing side and the opposing building-facing side, said pultruded structure comprising
• (i) a nosing defining a first front cavity (38) extending along the length of said pultruded structure, and from the front toward the rear of the respective said jamb member, and
• (ii) a jamb cover defining a second rear cavity (30) extending from said nosing toward the rear of the respective said jamb member, and terminating at an elongate rear open end extending along substantially the entirety of the length of said jamb member;
• (b) an elongate generally rigid jamb substrate having a length, a depth, and a thickness, said jamb substrate being received in the rear cavity (30) and extending from said nosing rearwardly through the rear end (40) of the rear cavity and out of the rear cavity to a rear end of said substrate disposed rearwardly of the rear end (40) of the rear cavity;
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• (c) fasteners adapted to assemble said side jamb members to said top jamb member thereby to fabricate a said door frame.

A building entrance door jamb, adapted to be coupled to second and third door jambs to make a door frame assembly, and wherein such door frame assembly is adapted to be attached to building structure members at a doorway rough opening in an exterior wall of a building, said jamb having a front, a rear, a door-facing side and an opposing building-facing side, a length, a depth between the front and the rear, and a thickness between the door-facing side and the building-facing side, said jamb comprising:

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric jamb block (229) having a profile extending along the length of said door jamb and comprising a front wall (240), a closed rear wall (242), a first side wall (224) on a door-facing side of said jamb, and a second side wall (226) on a building-facing side of said jamb, said first and second side walls extending from the front of said jamb block to said rear wall, said front wall, said rear wall, and said side walls defining a rear cavity (230);
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• (b) an elongate fiber reinforced pultruded polymeric nosing block (237) extending along the length of said door jamb and defining a front cavity (238), said nosing block having a rear wall in common with said front wall (240) of said jamb block,
• said elongate jamb defining a generally closed perimeter at the rear of said jamb, devoid of receptacles capable of receiving a body of a reinforcing substrate.

An elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric depth extender adapted to be mounted on a jamb base thereby to extend a depth of a door jamb, said depth extender having a front and a rear, and comprising:

• (a) a pultruded rear wall;
• (b) a pultruded first side wall extending toward the front of said depth extender, on a door-facing side of said depth extender;
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• (c) a pultruded second side wall extending toward the front of said depth extender, on a building-facing side of said depth extender,
• said first and second pultruded side walls extending from the rear of said depth extender toward the front of said depth extender, said pultruded first side wall terminating in a mounting finger adapted to be locked in a mounting cavity in such jamb base and said second pultruded side wall terminating in a locking stud adapted to be locked in a lock receptor on such jamb base.

A building in-swing personnel entrance door jamb, adapted to be coupled to second and third door jambs to make a door frame assembly, and wherein such door frame assembly is adapted to be attached to building structure members at a doorway rough opening in an exterior wall of a building, said frame having a front, a rear, a door-facing side and an opposing building-facing side, a length, a depth between the front and the rear, and a thickness between the door-facing side and the building-facing side, said door frame comprising:

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric jamb block (229) having a profile extending along the length of said door jamb and comprising a front wall (240), a closed rear wall (242), a first side wall on the door-facing side of said jamb, and a second side wall (226) on the building-facing side of said jamb, said first and second side walls extending from the front of said jamb block to said rear wall, said front wall, said rear wall, and said side walls defining a rear cavity (230), further comprising a door strike on said first side wall and spaced from said front wall (240);
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• (b) an elongate fiber reinforced pultruded polymeric nosing block (237) extending along the length of said door jamb and defining a front cavity (238), said nosing block having a rear wall in common with said front wall (240) of said jamb block,
• said elongate jamb block defining a generally closed perimeter at the rear, devoid of receptacles receiving any body of a reinforcing substrate.

A building personnel entrance door frame comprising a top jamb member, and first and second side jamb members configured to be coupled to said top jamb member to make a door frame assembly, and wherein said door frame assembly is adapted to be attached to building structural members at a doorway rough opening in an exterior wall of a building, said top jamb member, and said first and second side jamb members each having a front, a rear, a door-facing side, a building-facing side, a length, a depth, and a thickness, and comprising:

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric covering structure (22) having a profile defining a front, a rear, a door-facing side and an opposing building-facing side, a length defined along a length dimension of said pultruded structure, a depth between the front and the rear, and a thickness between the door-facing side and the opposing building-facing side, said pultruded structure comprising
• (i) a nosing defining a first front cavity (38) extending along the length of said pultruded structure, and from the front toward the rear of the respective said jamb member, and
• (ii) a jamb cover having a front wall, and first and second side walls corresponding with the door-facing side of said pultruded structure and the building-facing side of said pultruded structure, said front wall and said side walls collectively defining a second rearwardly-opening rear cavity (30) extending from said nosing toward the rear of the respective said jamb member, the rear cavity having a rear end (40) corresponding with rear ends of said side walls;
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• (b) an elongate generally rigid jamb substrate having a depth, and a thickness, said jamb substrate being received in the rear cavity (30) and extending from said nosing rearwardly through the rear end (40) of the rear cavity, and out of the rear cavity to a rear end of said substrate disposed rearwardly of the rear end of the rear cavity,
• said jamb member further comprising a latch-side abutment surface at a rearwardly-disposed portion of said jamb member.

In combination,

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric patio screen door frame, said pultruded patio screen door frame being adapted to be used as a door element of a side-by-side sliding patio door which separates an enclosed building from an ambient outdoor environment, said door frame comprising an elongate top frame member, an elongate bottom frame member, and elongate first and second side frame members extending between said top and bottom frame members, said top, bottom, and side frame members defining an inwardly disposed opening through said frame, for receiving screening which spans and closes off such opening, each of said top, bottom, and side frame members comprising
• (i) a relatively inwardly disposed, closed frame block (322) defining a first closed cavity (330), and having an inner wall (324) disposed toward the frame opening, an outer wall (326) disposed away from the frame opening, a first side wall (342) disposed in a direction inwardly into such building, a second side wall (340) disposed in a direction outwardly away from such building, said first and second side walls connecting said inner wall and said outer wall to each other, said first side wall (342) comprising an elongate receptacle (344) extending along a length of the respective said frame member and being adapted to receive and hold such screening therein to span such inwardly disposed opening in said frame, and
• (ii) an outwardly disposed, outwardly opening cavity (346) extending from such outer wall (326) outwardly of said frame opening to a distal end of said outwardly disposed cavity, said outwardly disposed cavity being defined by an inner wall (326) in common with said outer wall (326) of said inwardly disposed frame block (322), a third side wall (348) extending from said inner wall (326) and away from said second side wall (340), and a fourth side wall (350) extending from said inner wall (326) and away from said first side wall (342);
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• (b) an elongate fiber-reinforced pultruded polymeric jamb adapted to cooperate with said pultruded patio screen door frame in holding said patio screen door frame into assembly with other framed elements of such sliding patio door, said pultruded jamb comprising an elongate outer plate (354) and an elongate side plate (356) joined to said outer plate, said side plate being in face-to-face relationship with one of said third and fourth side walls of said cavity (346),
• at least one of said side plate (356) and the respective said third or fourth side wall comprising a pile receptacle (358A, 358B) adapted to receive a pile strip (360) therein.

A building entrance door top jamb, adapted to be coupled to left and right side door jambs to make a door frame assembly, and wherein such door frame assembly is adapted to be attached to building structure members at a doorway rough opening in an external wall of a building, said top jamb having a front, a rear, a door-facing side and an opposing building-facing side, an arcuate length, a depth between the front and the rear, and a thickness between the door-facing side and the building-facing side, said door top jamb comprising:

• (a) an elongate fiber-reinforced molded polymeric jamb block (229) having a generally constant profile extending along the arcuate length of said top door jamb and comprising a front wall (240), a closed rear wall (242), a first side wall on the door-facing side of said top jamb, and a second side wall on the building-facing side of said top jamb, said first and second side walls extending from the front of said jamb block to said rear wall, said front wall, said rear wall, and said side walls defining a rear cavity (230);
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• (b) an elongate fiber-reinforced molded polymeric nosing (237) extending along the length of said door jamb and defining a front cavity (238), said nosing block having a rear wall generally aligned with said front wall (240) of said jamb block,
• said elongate jamb block defining a generally closed perimeter at the rear, devoid of receptacles receiving a body of any reinforcing substrate.