Corner pad and entryway having the same
AssigneeEndura Products, Inc.
InventorsTomasz Jaskiewicz, George Heid
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes a corner pad for an entryway. The corner pad may have a mounting surface configured for attachment to a frame member. The corner pad may also have a sealing surface opposite from the mounting surface. At least a portion of the sealing surface corresponds with a sealing region designed to seal against a stile of a door panel. A profile of the sealing surface within the sealing region is non-linear. Thus the profile creates a varied thickness of the corner pad within the sealing region to provide varying levels of compression when sealing with the stile, and to accommodate variations in a margin between the frame member and the stile.
Claims8
An entryway, comprising:
- a threshold;
- a frame member extending upwardly relative to the threshold;
- a door panel;
- a weather-strip attached along a height of the frame member;
- and
- a corner pad mounted to the frame member adjacent to the threshold, the corner pad comprising:
- a mounting surface configured for attachment to the frame member;
- a sealing surface opposite the mounting surface, at least a portion of the sealing surface corresponds with a sealing region configured to seal against a stile of the door panel;
- a first edge of the corner pad positioned along a portion of the weather-strip;
- and
- a second edge of the corner pad located opposite the first edge,
- wherein a profile of the sealing surface within the sealing region is non-linear, wherein the corner pad further comprises:
- a clearance region adjacent to the first edge of the corner pad,
- wherein a thickness along the sealing region is greater than a thickness along the clearance region,
- wherein a first open volume is created between the clearance region and the stile when the door panel is closed to at least partially define a first reservoir zone,
- wherein each cross section of the first reservoir zone taken parallel with a width direction W of the corner pad at each point along the height of the corner pad is substantially identical.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.