Patent Application
20190242181
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The disclosure and prior art relates to barrier assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new barrier assembly for preventing a pest from passing beneath a door.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a shell that defines an interior space. The shell is flexible. The shell is configured to couple to a bottom of a door so that the shell extends between opposing edges of the door. A filler is positioned in and substantially occupies the interior space. The shell is configured to close a gap between the bottom of the door and a surface below the door when the door is closed. The filler is metallic so that the filler is configured to deter chewing of the shell by a pest. The pest is deterred from passing beneath the door.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A filler 16 is positioned in and substantially occupies the interior space 14. The shell 12 is configured to close a gap between the bottom of the door and a surface below the door when the door is closed, as shown in
A pair of couplers 18 is coupled singly to opposing ends 22 of the shell 12. The couplers 18 are configured to couple to the door. Each coupler 18 is configured to couple to the door proximate to a respective opposing edge of the door to couple the shell 12 to the door and to position the shell 12 to close the gap between the bottom of the door and the surface below the door when the door is closed.
Each coupler 18 comprises a plate 20 that is coupled to and extends from a respective opposing end 22 of the shell 12 past a back 24 of the shell 12, as shown in
A handle 26 is coupled to and extends from the back 24 of the shell 12. The handle 26 extends under the door when the shell 12 is coupled to the door. The shell 12 is positioned on a first side of the door and the handle 26 is accessible from a second side of the door. The handle 26 is configured to be grasped in a hand of a user to position the shell 12 adjacent to the first side of the door to close the gap between the bottom of the door and the surface below the door when the door is closed.
The handle 26 comprises a panel 28. The panel 28 is rigid. The panel 28 is rectangularly shaped. The panel 28 extends between the opposing ends 22 of the shell 12. The panel 28 is coupled to the plates 20. The panel 28 comprises metal. The panel 28 comprises aluminum or the like.
In use, the handle 26 is configured to be grasped in a hand of a user to position the shell 12 adjacent to the first side of the door to close the gap between the bottom of the door and the surface below the door when the door is closed. The pest is deterred from passing beneath the door.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
