US1002460A - Awning. - Google Patents

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A. G. SHENIGKA.

AWNING.

AIPLIOATIOH FILED JAN. 13, 1911.

Patented Sept. 5, 1911.

INVENTOR,

WITNESSES 147M511, G JHE/v/c'm Q I HTTY- AMEL G. SI-IENICKA, OF PET-ALUMA, CALIFORNIA.

AWNING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 13, 1911.

Patented Sept. 5, 1911. Serial No. 602,495.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, AMEL G. SHENIOKA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Petaluma, in the county of Sonoma and State of California, have invented a new and useful Awning, of which the following is a specification in such full and clear terms as will enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to an awning, and its object is to provide means whereby a wide awning may be extended over a side walk with a very short space for head room.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that where an awning is made very flat that there is a corresponding difficulty in raising the outrigger which holds it extended. This has resulted in several forms of apparatus to raise the outrigger when the awning is very flat. In the present instance the outrigger is raised by means of a cable, as the awning is lowered, the cable and awning being each wound upon a drum carrying the same, reversely, whereby as the awning unwinds the outrigger and lifting cable winds up.

In the drawings in which the same numeral of reference is applied to the same portion throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an awning having this invention applied thereto showing the wall in section; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the roller driving mechanism showing the apparatus connected to two awnings; Fig. 3 is a .side elevation of the crank used to wind up and unwind the awning and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of one of the slides used to carry the outrigger.

The numeral 1 represents the building wall in which is a niche 2 in which the awning roller 3 and cable roller 4 are installed. These rollers 3 and 4 are held in place by means of suitable brackets 5 which are secured to the wall of the building. At the end of each roller there is a bevel gear 7 on the awning roller and a bevel gear 8 on the cable roller. At the ends of the rollers carrying the gears there are brackets 9 having cross pieces 10 and 11 for supporting the driving shaft 12. The driving shaft 12 has a gear 13 in mesh with the gear'7 and a gear 14 in mesh with the gear 8, the latter gear driving the cable drum at a slower rate than the awning drum is driven. The lower end of the shaft 12 has a link 15 thereto, said link having universal joints 16 at each end in order to operate around a corner as illustrated in Fig. 1. Connected with the link 15 is a shaft 17 of such length as may be necessary to reach the driving box 18. The driving box 18 is of a common form and has a square opening 19 in a gear contained .therein in which the square end 20 of the crank 21 may be inserted to raise and lower the awning.

The canvas 22 is wound upon a drum 3 and is connected at its upper end to a part 23 in turn fastened to the outer end of the outrigger 24. The inner end of the outrigger is connected with a slide 25 having suitable antifriction rollers 26 which bear upon a rod 27, the latter being secured to the building to hold the inner end of the outrigger in place. Between the ends of the outrigger it is provided with a clamp 28 to which one end of the cable 29 is secured. The cable 29 passes over the drum carrying the same in the reverse direction from which the awning canvas 22 passes over its drum, so that when the shaft 12 is rotated the cable travels in the reverse direction from the awning canvas.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that should two roller sets be operated from the same driving rod 17, it is necessary to so roll the canvas and cable on one set reversely from the other set in order that both awnings will run down at the same time.

The operation of the awning is as follows :When the crank shaft 21 is operated to raise the canvas 22 and wind the same upon the roller carrying it, the cable 29 is unwound from its roller, there being one cable for each outrigger 24 of which there are usually a number. As the cable 29 unwinds the slide 25 moves down the rod 27 until it either reaches the bottom thereof or until the canvas 22 is entirely wound up. When the awning is extended the reverse operation takes place, the awning canvas is unwound and the outrigger is lifted so that it clears the heads of the passersby.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:-

1. In an awning, a sheet, a roller upon which said sheet is wound, an outrigger to which said sheet is secured, a slide connected with the inner end of said outrigger, a cable connected to said outrigger and adapted to raise the same at the inner end thereof, a drum adjacent the sheet, a drum upon which said cable is wound, and means to unwind the sheet as the cable is Wound up, substantially as described,

2. In an awning, a sheet, a roller upon which said sheet is adapted to be wound, an outrigger connected with said sheet at one edge thereof, a slide connected to the inner end of said outrigger, a slide bar upon which said slide moves, a cable connected with said outrigger near its inner end, a

drum for said cable adjacent the sheet drum, and means to unwind the sheet as the cable is wound up, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of Dec. A. D. 1910, in the presence of the two subscribed witnesses.

AMEL G. SHENICKA.

Witnesses:

C. P. GRIFFIN, L. H. ANDERSON.

Copiesof this patent may be, obtained for five cents each, by addressin th commissioner f r Washington, D. C.

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