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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
J Sellers Kite, III, Carefree, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Bentley-Harris Inc., Exton, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
87-9 ; 494981 ; 81 13 ; 277230 ;
Abstract
A tubular insulating gasket includes a braided jacket having a non-stretchable warp bead laid in along one side wall and a mesh bulb made of resilient wire contained within the jacket and spaced from the warp bead. The gasket is made by braiding the jacket on a tubular mandrel having a diameter greater than the pull-down diameter of the braid, interlocking the warp bead into the braid to prevent its axial expansion, feeding the bulb through the mandrel into the jacket as the jacket is taken off the mandrel. Gaskets have less tendency to crimp or collapse as where the gasket is fit around corners of an open door are produced.