US103010A

US103010A - Albert c

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Publication number: US103010A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1887-05-17

Description

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i Letters Patent No. 103,010, dated May 17, 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent'and making part of the sa'me.

I, ALBERT C. BROWN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window-Screens, ofkwhich the following is a specification.

Object and Nature of the Intention.

The object of my invention is to make a window 'the width ofwhich can be adjusted to adapt it to windows of different widths', and

The nature of my invention, to accomplish this bbject, consists in making the side-pieces ofthe windowscreen frame in two parts, those parts being made adf instable relative to each other to adapt the screen to the width of' the window, as hereafter more fully described.

Descriptiony ofthe Accompanying Drawing. Figure 1 -is a side elevation of my window-screen. Figure 2 a sectional view, taken at the line :e az,- in

fig. 1. f

General Description.

Agis thc frame, put together at the corners 'as frames are usually made; and

B are additional side-pieces rabbeted to the frame A, as clearly shown in the drawing.

G' are dowel-pins, 4firmly secured to the pieces B, but passing loosely into holes bored in the frame A.

To lwidenthe screen, the pieces B are drawn out, as shown by dotted lines, D, in `iig. 2. They are drawn out more or less to adapt the width of the screen to the window, and they are held at any desired place hy the`set-screws E, which sit down against the pins C.

The rabbet joint admits of the sidepieces B being drawn out, as above described, without opening a space between them and the frame A. v

H is the wire, or screen-cloth, ordinarily nsed for window-screens, and it is firmly fastened to the frame A'in any of the well-knownWays.

The way Iusnally fasten it to the frame is by cutting a groove, L, in the frame, lay the )vire or screen# cloth, which iss'uciently large for its edges/to extend `over the groove upon the trame, and then pre-ss a strip or molding into the groove wedging theedge of the screen in. the groove beneath' the strip. To make a finished article, I cover the strip and4 groove. with a bead or. molding, I A

I have but one frame and one screen-cloth, and still am able to adjust the width of `the screen to adapt it to windows of different Widths.

Claims.

\1. The adjustable side pieces B, attached to the sides of the window-screen' frame A, so that they can be adjusted .thereon and adapt the frame towindows of differentwidths, substantially as and for thepurposes shown and described.

2. The combination and arrangement of the frame A, side pieces B, and dowel-pins C, when construct-ed 'and arranged substantially as and for the purposes specified and shown.

. l A. C. BROWN. `Witnesse`s: v

LEWIS L. CQBURN, J. M. lVIARsHALL.v