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US 5,312,672 AGranted
Sealing strip for wall and floor joints
AssigneeNorton Company
InventorsStewart B. Dittmeier, Samuel E. Sher
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Abstract
A compressible, flexible, resilient wedge shaped sealing strip for maintaining conforming sealing engagement with opposing spaced walls of various structures and sealing joints therebetween has a flexible resilient hollow body with an outer layer of foam both made of a material having the ability to recover from a compressed state and thus continuously exert and force the sealing strip into sealing engagement with the opposing spaced walls of the structure.
Claims12
A compressible, flexible, and resilient wedge shaped sealing strip for joints between opposing spaced walls of a structure comprising:
- a compressible, flexible, and resilient wedge shaped hollow body having an outer side wall extending around an internal passage including opposite side wall portions extending from an inner narrow side wall portion to an outer wider side wall portion, and
- a layer of cellular foam material secured to at least the opposite side wall portions of the body and adapted for conforming sealing engagement with the opposing spaced side walls of a structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.