Doorsill with mullion spacer
AssigneeEndura Products, Inc.
InventorsThomas C. Swank, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Bruce E. Procton, George Heid, Brent Van Camp, Michael K. Mitchell
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Abstract
A doorsill for forming the bottom of an entryway. The doorsill has a substrate to be disposed above a subfloor and a lifter provided on the substrate capable of extending from a bottom of the substrate. The lifter is adjustable to change the orientation or position of the bottom relative to the subfloor.
Claims23
A doorsill comprising:
- a substrate having a length, a width, and a top side;
- at least one mullion spacer having a top surface and being selectively positioned along the length of the substrate;
- the at least one mullion spacer extending upwardly from the top side of the substrate;
- the at least one mullion spacer being configured to underlie and support a mullion post extending upwardly from the doorsill and to space a bottom end of the mullion post above the top side of the substrate;
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- a sill deck secured to and covering a portion of the substrate, the sill deck being formed with a notch surrounding the at least one mullion spacer.
A door assembly for an entryway, the door assembly comprising a doorsill, a left jamb with a bottom end, a right jamb with a bottom end, and a mullion with a bottom end, the mullion being located between the left jamb and the right jamb, the doorsill comprising:
- a substrate for mounting on a subfloor of a building entryway, the substrate having ends and an outside edge;
- a sill deck secured to and covering at least a portion of the substrate, the sill deck being selectively removable from the substrate by sliding the sill deck in the direction of the outside edge of the substrate;
- a mullion spacer mounted on the substrate and extending upwardly therefrom, the mullion spacer being located along the length of the substrate such that it will underlie and support the bottom end of the mullion of the door assembly;
- the sill deck having a cut-out with edges that at least partially surround the mullion spacer;
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- when the sill deck is slid in the direction of the outside edge of the substrate for removal, the cutout moves away from the mullion spacer leaving the mullion spacer to support the bottom end of the mullion on the substrate.
A doorsill assembly for an entryway, the doorsill assembly comprising an elongated substrate, a sill deck covering at least a portion of the elongated substrate, and a mullion spacer located along the length of the substrate to underlie and support the bottom end of a mullion above a top surface of the substrate, the sill deck being formed with a notch that receives the mullion spacer so that the sill deck may be removed from the substrate leaving the mullion spacer in place supporting a mullion above the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.