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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
Frame & Mullions Llc, Henrico, VA (US);
James Thomas Clarke, Jr., Henrico, VA (US);
Ira Rex Seybold, Mechanicsville, VA (US);
Frame & Mullions LLC, Henrico, VA (US);
Abstract
A mullion is adapted for use in a narrow stile door system. The mullion is a three-section mullion with top and bottom hollow mullion tubes and an I-shaped centerpiece. The top and bottom hollow mullion tubes have a first outside width and first outside depth and a second inside width and second inside depth, the second inside width and depth defined by the inside of the hollow tube walls. The I-shaped centerpiece is connected to and fixed in between the top and bottom mullion tubes. The I-shaped centerpiece comprises a thin middle portion and top and bottom flanges, and top and bottom insert portions connected to the top and bottom flanges, and the top and bottom insert portions having a third width and third depth that are smaller than the second inside width and depth of the top and bottom hollow mullion tubes, with the insert portions adapted to be inserted into the hollow portion of the top and bottom mullion tubes and fixed therein.