Compression honeycomb door seal

Claim 1

A thermoplastic compressible honeycomb door seal capable of use with a door and a door surrounding structure, comprising: a relatively rigid base portion having a base plate, said base plate having a first distal portion and a second distal portion; a compressible, flexible honeycomb sealing portion capable of providing a resilient door seal, having a plurality of enclosures and a curvilinear front contact surface face capable of contacting a door end surface, said curvilinear front contact surface face including a first front surface, a second front surface, and a third front surface; a resilient backside member which extends substantially perpendicular from the first distal portion of the base plate; said enclosures including an interior enclosure, a central enclosure and an exterior enclosure; said central enclosure being formed by a first rib, a second rib, and the second front surface, said first rib traversing a line perpendicular to a line tangent to said contact surface face at an acute interior angle to the perpendicular line and thus being an interior rib, said second rib traversing the perpendicular line at an acute exterior angle to the perpendicular line and thus being an exterior rib, said first and second ribs being joined together and forming a common junction located in the vicinity of said backside member; said interior enclosure being formed by the interior rib, the base portion and the first front surface, said front surface being short to provide for a limited backward movement of the front curvilinear surface face; said exterior enclosure being formed by the exterior rib, the third front surface, and a backside rib, said backside rib being joined to said backside member and having a curvilinear portion therein, said exterior enclosure being capable of hingedly bending backward and contacting said door surrounding structure to permit a plurality of contact points of the seal with said structure.