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Bus window graffiti shield mounting with moisture seal
| Details |
Inventors: Caplette, Geoffrey K.;
Assignee: Transmatic, Inc. (Waterford, MI)
Primary Examiner: Kent; Christopher
Assistant Examiner: Glessner; Brian E.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP
A mounting for a window and at least one shield for protecting the window. In a typical embodiment, the window is rectangular, such as a bus window, and the shield is a thin flexible sheet of plastic. The window is mounted on elastomeric seals in a metallic frame and held in place by a second set of elastomeric seals. The shield is placed in a pre-formed trench of the inner elastomeric seals which creates an air gap preventing contact between the shield and the window. An inwardly curved and flexible lip extending above the trench is capable of bending back to conform to the surface of the shield when installed to form a water tight seal and to help hold the shield in place. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention comprises a system for holding a graffiti shield in place over the face of a window.
A combination of elastomer seals is used to fix the window to a mounting and fix a graffiti shield over the window.
One embodiment of the present invention comprises a rectangular window and rectangular graffiti shield held in place by elastomeric seals.
An exterior seal runs the length of the entire lower, upper, left and right sides.
On the interior side, a seal with a trench runs the length of the lower, left and right sides, and a seal with a partial trench runs the length of the upper side.
The interaction between the seals with a trench, or partial trench, and the exterior seals secure the graffiti shield and the window in place.
The primary difference between the seals of the lower, left and right sides and the seal of the upper side is that the inner wall of the trench adjacent to the window, on the upper side, is only intermittently present to allow easy installation of the graffiti shield.
In describing the construction of embodiments of the graffiti shield mounting, the lower, left, right and upper components are essentially the same, except that the left and right side components are rotated 90.
degree.
, as appropriate, and the upper components are rotated 180.
degree.
and, as stated before, the inner wall of the trench on the upper seal is only intermittently present.
As a result, the direction of "up" would be the appropriate direction for a part that is oriented toward the center of the window for the left, right, lower and upper sides, unless otherwise indicated.
In addition, the directions "in" and "out" refer to left and right, respectively, in FIG.
2.
It should be noted that this orientation is arbitrary and for descriptive purposes only.
The embodiment can be constructed with either side being on the "outside" relative to the interior of the construction to which the mounting is attached or incorporated, such as the side of a bus
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