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1. A weather barrier device for covering an opening in a structure, comprising:
at least one glazing panel; a plurality of support members disposed about the periphery of the glazing panel; at least one elongated, rigid structural foam member having a rectangular cross-sectional shape with four flat outer surfaces; a first rigid elongated member and a second rigid elongated member, each of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member having a recess therein capable of accommodating the foam member to form a composite member with the first rigid elongated member on one side of the foam member and the second rigid elongated member on another side of the foam member to form the composite member, wherein the recess in each of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member has a U-shaped cross section defined by a pair of legs extending at 90 degrees from a back wall, the foam member being slidably received between the pair of legs without deforming the pair of legs and without distorting the rectangular cross-sectional shape of the foam member, the pair of legs being parallel to one another and spaced from one another a distance equal to a width of the foam member, each of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member having at least one spacer extending from the back wall thereof to provide a space for adhesive of a selected thickness to reside between the foam member and the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member, respectively, when the foam member is in position in the recesses thereof, the at least one spacer of the first rigid elongated member abutting against a first flat outer surface of the foam member and the at least one spacer of the second rigid elongated member abutting against a second flat outer surface of the foam member, preventing the foam member from abutting against the back walls of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated members, respectively, an adhesive applied between the foam member and each of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member, the adhesive adhering the first flat outer surface to the back wall of the first rigid elongated member and the adhesive adhering the second flat outer surface to the back wall of the second rigid elongated member, the first flat outer surface and the second flat outer surface being parallel to one another and to the back wall of each of the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member, a third flat outer surface and a fourth flat outer surface of the foam member being parallel to each other and to the pair of legs of the first rigid elongated member and to the pair of legs of the second rigid elongated member, a first of the pair of legs of the first rigid elongated member and a first of the pair of legs of the second rigid elongated member positioned proximate the third flat outer surface with a spacing there between greater than the sum of a combined length thereof measured in a direction extending between the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member, a second of the pair of legs of the first rigid elongated member and a second of the pair of legs of the second rigid elongated member positioned proximate the fourth flat outer surface with a spacing there between greater than the sum of a combined length thereof measured in a direction extending between the first rigid elongated member and the second rigid elongated member, forming the composite member, the composite member forming at least one of the plurality of support members. |
