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A Study of Modern Weather Stripe and Their Rightful Riles of Making Our Different Type 
of Doors and Windows Proof Against Wind and Weather 
yes 
W EAI HER strips are not the caviar of 
the building menu—far from it. They 
are a whole lot more like the roast beef with 
pan gravy and baked potatoes. 
I hose of us who bought weather stripping 
years ago and either put it on ourselves or had 
the town carpenter tack it on, do not believe 
it is any good, and at best onlv a “fancv 
fixing”. But those days are passed and the 
weather strip has properly outstripped many 
other things m development and has come to 
be no hors d'oeuvre but the piece de resistance 
ot the bill-of-fare. So important has the ef¬ 
fect of the strip become that heating and ven¬ 
tilating engineers have been and are today 
carrying on experiments, not to prove their 
value (no, for this has been proven), but to 
have exact data to show how much fuel is 
saied and just how evenly the temperature can 
be maintained throughout a home under vary¬ 
ing conditions of gale and stability outdoors 
and in. 
Things They Obviate 
Do you care to heat the great outdoors ? This 
is the first important question. If you do, 
how dare you with the shortage of coal today? 
Have you sufficient coal to waste it? Is your 
home hard to heat? Why? Do you like the 
gales and little hurricanes racing over your 
floors, chasing the little snow flakes? Do you 
like to _ cultivate colds and other draught 
diseases? These are pertinent questions even 
if they seem impertinent. They suggest the 
graphic pictures that we do not want inhabiting 
our homes. 
t hese conditions can be obviated. 
If you inquire from your friends who know 
intelligently the value of the furnishings they 
use, you will get concrete figures before in¬ 
ETHEL R. PEYSER 
At the romantically called meeting rail — 
where the upper and lower sash meet — 
is a hooked metal strip. Courtesy 
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 
As silently as the rubber clad wheel, the 
window runs on a track with tubular 
metal inserted in the unlined sash 
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co 
vesting. One conspicuous friend, Uncle Sam 
sa ys that in 1918 he saved two million dollars’ 
worth of coal by the use of weather strips. 
And this led the director of conservation to 
make the extravagant statement that weather 
strips are 100% fuel conservation. 
What They Are 
In the past when the telephone had just 
become a household staple and before horse 
cars evaporated we used to paste the weather 
strip on the outside of our windows. Then 
they were made of cloth, or rubber or heavy 
paper, and they made life slightly fair and 
warmer; but most of the heat accrued by them 
was that which was fired in trying to raise 
the windows which stuck due to the adherence 
of the weather strip. 
1 oday the weather strip is gentler and not > 
onl)’ keeps the cold air at bay, but keeps out 
the dust and noise and permits the window to 
go up and down more easily because it runs 
on a metal track; really the weather strip 
allows it to glide like magic. To move a 
window with the weather stripping affixed is 
a pleasure to which the weakest reed can bend. 
The dictionary says “the weather strip is 
a narrow strip, as wood edged with rubber 
prepared to be placed over crevices, as at doors 
and windows to exclude wind, rain, etc.” 
I his is the old weather strip. Today they 
are in general metallic tubular strips fitting 
into complementary depressions in metal 
linings or window sashes that are designed 
and shaped to seal the cracks that naturally 
occur between and around doors and windows 
and their frames, sealing up these openings so 
that the elements are turned back before they 
get even their noses into the house. They are 
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Here is the double casement window with the metal intersealine 
and locking devices. Head and side (above); meeting rail 
(center) ; sill seal with its weep holes (lower) which stem the 
floods while the rest of the locking device keeps out the air 
and wind. Courtesy of the Monarch Metal Products Co. 
The sliding window in this case runs on n fin, ,, •>. , 
a tubular bit of metal fits in a metal l i P ^° m which 
left). The head of the window (upperl gTOV l ^ 
(upper right), bottom of windowed fLLTT?, ^ 
n S ht). Courtesy ’of Monarch" 
