Resilient sectional strip for mounting to a closure edge

Claim 1

A resilient sectional strip for mounting to a closure edge of a closure movable to close an opening, such as a swing door, a sliding door, a roller door or a container cover, the strip comprising a first resilient elongate section extending along a closure edge and having a hollow cavity; a second resilent intermediate section disposed within said hollow cavity and having a flat base portion contacitng a base surface of said first resilient elongate section; a resilient electrical switching strip having first and second metallic contact strips which are electrically isolated from one another and resiliently spaced apart, said switching strip being arranged on said flat base portion, said intermediate section having limbs which extend from its side edges into the hollow cavity and enclose the sides of said switching strip, said first resilient elongate section having a substantially triangular cross-section, with the apex of the triangle directed towards an opening to be closed, slightly inwardly arched side surfaces and a corresponding hollow cavity of substantially triangular cross-section, with the base of the triangle being disposed at the closure edge; said limbs which enclosing sides of said switching strip being arranged at the inside of arched side surfaces of said first resilient elongate section in such a way that on bending of said first resilient elongate section through contact with an obstacle said limbs will be respectively loaded by one of said side surfaces which arches further inwardly; said limbs including at their insides, in the region of the surface of said switching strip which faces said apex, inwardly directed actuating ribs arranged so that in the normal state they do not exert an actuating pressure on said switching and so that an actuating pressure is exerted on said switching strip when one of said arched side surfaces and the associated limb is deflected.