The Stanley Works

David K Wegner

Larry J Schlicht

Aldo Romanelli

George A Sivore, Jr

Dennis M Romanelli

An overhead door reinforcement assembly has a plurality of elongated reinforcing members operatively mounted vertically on the inner surface of the door between the top edge and the bottom edge of each of the several door panels, and a plurality of cap members overlying the adjacent ends of the reinforcing members. Pivot members pivotally connect the cap members to the adjacent ends of the reinforcing members, and this permits pivoting of the panels as the door is moved between open and closed positions, but prevents pivoting of the ends of the reinforcing members in the direction of the cap members to prevent buckling of the associated door in the closed position under externally applied pressure. A disengageable lock member is engaged with the cap members and the ends of the reinforcing members to prevent pivoting of the ends of the reinforcing members away from the cap members to prevent buckling of the door panels.

Reinforced collapsible garage door assembly

A door assembly includes a door having an aperture therein and a window frame mounted in the aperture. A glazing member is mounted in the frame which has recesses formed about the glazing member. A trim panel dimensioned to overlie the glazing member has opposed ends seated in opposed recesses of the frame, and a filler strip has an engagement portion seated in another one of the recesses and a retainer portion extending outwardly of the recess.

Garage door lite and method of assembling same

A garage door has a multiplicity of transversely extending panels with a preformed core of synthetic resin and integrally formed metallic front and rear skins of the same configuration but reversed. The front skin has its top edge portion configured with an inwardly and then upwardly extending wall portion to define a shelf-like recess adjacent the front face, a generally horizontal top wall portion and a depending lip portion. The bottom edge portion of the outer skin is configured with a generally U-shaped portion extending downwardly from the core and configured and dimensioned to be received within the shelf-like recess of the next lower panel, a generally horizontal portion, and an upwardly extending lip portion. The core has its top edge formed with a shelf-like recess adjacent its front face and a channel-like recess spaced rearwardly therefrom, and the bottom edge has a shelf-like recess adjacent its rear face and a channel-like recess spaced forwardly therefrom. The depending lip portions on the upper edge portions of the skins extend into the channel-like recess in the top edges of the core and the upwardly extending lip portions on the bottom edge portions of the skins extending into the channel-like recess on the bottom edge of the core. Insulating spacer elements may be provided in the channel-like recesses between the lip portions, and hinges hingedly connect the panels.

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Milford, MI, United States of America

David K Wegner