A profiled rubber strip seal for bordering window and door openings. To simplify installation, or to promote relative movement between the strip and windowpanes, such seals are provided with overlay strips of friction-reducing material, especially synthetic materials that contain fluorine. To provide favorable conditions for satisfactory bonding between the overlay strips and the main strip, and also to make it possible to use difficult to handle materials, the elastomeric mixture of the main strip is altered by including therein silicic acid.

A weather strip in which a glass-holding member and a bend lip are coupled respectively with the outer circumferential side and the inner circumferential side of an outside wall surface of a mounting base member, and the mounting base member is made of solid rubber and the bend lip is made of sponge rubber. A solid rubber portion continuing to the mounting base member is formed at least on inside of a base portion of the bend lip and the rotation fulcrum of the bend lip is shifted towards the free end and the modulus of the base portion of the bend lip increases. In this construction, even if the distance between the top end of the outside wall portion and the top end of the bend lip in the free state is shortened sufficiently not to spoil the fine appearance, when the glass is elevated for full closing, the top end of the outside wall portion of the glass-holding member is not grasped between the seal wall portion and the glass peripheral surface. Consequently, the door glass weather strip is not spoiled in the normal sealing state and a fine appearance may be achieved.

Weather stripping is provided for a movable surface, more particularly an automotive vehicle window, comprising at least one lip or profiled member intended to come into contact with the movable surface and which is partially coated with a material promoting sliding, wherein said material is disposed at least over the active portion of said profiled member, in a plurality of separate zones defining a discontinuous layer on the cross section of the weather stripping.

A composite channel-shaped trim strip for application to a flange such as around the doors and windows of automotive vehicles, and a method for fabricating the trim strip. A perforated stiffener is incorporated in the trim strip to impart shape retention while facilitating bending and distortion thereof to the desired configuration. A rigid barrier member is interposed between the perforated stiffener and the corresponding external surface of the trim strip as the trim strip is fabricated to prevent carryover of the perforated pattern of the stiffener to the external surface. An aesthetically pleasing pattern may then be embossed upon the surface.

A glass run of the invention includes a furrow part on which a window glass moves and slides. The furrows of the furrow part are inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the sliding direction of the window glass. When dirt or dust is deposited in between the window glass and the furrow part, it enters the furrows of the furrow part. The slanted configuration of the furrows of the furrow part, in combination with the sliding force of the window glass, moves dust or dirt along the furrows to a position where the dirt does not rub against the end face of the window glass. The structure of the invention keeps the window glass from undesirably rubbing dust or dirt, thus preventing an increase in sliding resistance and undesirable noise.