Marvin Lumber & Cedar Company

Thomas J Heppner

Peter Hodgson

Kevin Wayne Bruce

A window assembly includes a window frame and an exterior window treatment system mounted to the window frame. The exterior window treatment system has a treatment storage housing configured to receive an exterior window treatment movable between a stored position within the treatment storage housing and a deployed position extending from the treatment storage housing. The window system also includes at least one guide for guiding the window treatment between the stored position and the deployed position. The window assembly includes at least one interface frame coupled with each of the treatment storage housing and the at least one guide for engaging the window treatment system to the window frame.

Exterior mounted window treatment system and window assembly including the same

Low-profile, self-draining panel threshold assemblies are discussed. The threshold assemblies comprise an interior sill portion, an exterior sill portion, and a drop-down chamber therebetween. The interior sill portion may include a condensation channel, which in one example, includes a roller track centrally positioned therein. The exterior sill portion includes a drain chamber and a reservoir chamber, where the reservoir chamber is positioned below and optionally to the exterior of the drain chamber. The drop-down chamber is partially defined by an elongate exposed weather-strip and an elongate covered weather-strip. In varying examples, a reservoir chamber height is equal to or greater than a water head height at a preselected wind load pressure. In certain examples, an effective threshold assembly height is less than or equal to &#xbe;-inch, such as less than or equal to &#xbd;-inch. Methods and apparatuses related to the threshold assemblies are also discussed.

Self-draining threshold assemblies including a reservoir chamber

Self-draining panel threshold assemblies including a reservoir chamber are discussed. The threshold assemblies comprise an interior sill portion, an exterior sill portion, and a drop-down chamber therebetween. The interior sill portion may include a condensation channel, which in one example, includes a roller track centrally positioned therein. The exterior sill portion includes a drain chamber and the reservoir chamber, where the reservoir chamber is positioned below and optionally to the exterior of the drain chamber. The drop-down chamber is partially defined by an elongate exposed weather-strip and an elongate covered weather-strip. In varying examples, a reservoir chamber height is equal to or greater than a water head height at a preselected wind load pressure. In certain examples, an effective threshold assembly height is less than or equal to-inch, such as less than or equal to-inch. Methods and apparatuses related to the threshold assemblies are also discussed.

A door sill in a frame mounting a fixed door panel and a sliding door panel movable along a longitudinally-extending track wherein the sliding door panel is disposed inwardly of the fixed door panel for movement thereof. The door sill comprising a sill floor external to the portion of an opening defined by the frame which is unobstructed by the fixed door panel. The door sill further comprising a platform elevated above the sill floor intermediate the sliding door panel track and the fixed door panel and abutting the sliding door panel track to define a drainage channel. The door sill further comprises a weatherstrip, having a pair of legs, extending along an outer surface of the track along which the sliding door panel moves whereby the first leg being generally parallel to and engaged against the track along which the sliding door is movable and a second generally planar leg being hinged to a top edge of the first leg and the second leg is biased upwardly and away from the first leg and into engagement with a bottom edge of the sliding door panel.

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Warroad, MN, United States of America

Thomas J Heppner