Garage door

In a sectional type door including a plurality of adjacent rectangular hingedly-connected door panels, each door panel including a rectangular reinforcing frame formed of a pair of longer members and of a pair of shorter members, which are rigidly interconnected and which circumscribe a space, each member of quadrangular cross-section having side faces, and an outer face, and an inner face facing away from and towards said space, respectively, two assemblies of an extruded outer casing section and of an extruded complementary inner casing section, each assembly complementarily surrounding one of the longer members, said outer casing sections of U-shaped cross-section defining a web and tubular side legs overlying and contacting said outer and said side faces, respectively, of said longer members along the entire length of each longer member, said inner casing sections overlying and contacting said inner face of said longer members along the length of the latter, each tubular leg including an inner wall perpendicular to said web and an abutment wall parallel to and equally outwardly spaced from said inner wall, and connector walls interconnecting said abutment wall with the respective inner walls, said connector walls generally parallel to said web of said outer casing section and disposed on both sides of said reinforcing frame, sheathing panes overlapping the abutment walls of both outer casing sections and closing said space, retaining strips of generally J-shaped cross-section, having a main portion generally parallel to and overlapping the outside of said sheathing panes and retaining the latter, said retaining strips having a transverse portion extending across said abutment wall and substantially parallel to said web, said retainer strips further having a connector portion extending on the inside of said abutment wall, said outer casing portion including complementary connector portions located between each inner wall and the associated abutment wall releasably connected with the connector portions of the retaining strips.

A garage door panel comprising a rectangular reinforcing frame including a pair of longer members and a pair of shorter members, which are rigidly interconnected and which circumscribe a space, each longer member having side faces and an outer face and an inner face facing away from and toward said space, respectively, an outer casing section overlying said outer face and said side faces, an inner casing section overlying said inner face, interconnector means releasably connecting said inner and outer casing sections outwardly of each side face, said outer casing section defining opposite abutment faces generally parallel to and laterally outwardly spaced from said side faces;

• sheathing panes applied against said abutment faces, retainer strips overlying said panes, surrounding the edges of the latter and secured to said outer casing section, said retainer strips retaining said panes against said abutment faces, and seals carried by said outer casing section for contacting an adjacent garage door panel, wherein said seal is an extruded strip, of flexible material, of uniform cross-section, defining a tubular body and an anchoring root formed of a main leg, centrally joined to said tubular body, and of a free transverse leg, said outer casing section defining a longitudinal cavity with a longitudinal slit, said cavity receiving said seal strip transverse leg with said seal strip main leg extending through said slit;
• wherein said cavity and its slit define a slitted wall, said slitted wall disposed in a plane generally parallel to said sheathing panes, the seal associated with one longer frame member being directed transversely of said panel in a direction away from the seal associated with the other one of said longer frame members.