US1049022A - Insect-exit eyelet for screens. - Google Patents

Description

H. B. WILSON.

INSECT EXIT EYBLET FOR SGRBENS.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 13, 1911.

1,049,022, I Patented Dec. 31.-1912.

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INSECT-EXIT EYELEI FOR SCREENS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 13, 1911.

Patented Dec. 31,1312.

Serial No. 632,937.

T 0 all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY B. WVILsoN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Insect-Exit Eyelets for Screens, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to screen attachments, and more particularly to the class of insect exit eyelets for fly screens.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an eyelet of this character in which the same may be readily and easily inserted in the wire mesh cloth of a window screen or door, and held therein, so that flies upon the inside of an inclosure may find an exit through the screen.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an eyelet of this character in which the body thereof is preferably formed from metal or other material, and is of substantially tubiform shape provided with an outstruck mutilated thread which permits the body to be screwed into the wire mesh cloth into proper position, thus permitting the exit of flies through the screen or wire mesh cloth from the interior of an inclosure to the outside thereof.

A further object of the invention is the provision of an eyelet of this character which is simple in construction, strong, durable, and inexpensive in manufacture.

W'ith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a fragmentary elevation of a wire mesh screen cloth, showing a plurality of the eyelets constructed in accordance with the invention mounted therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the eyelets removed from the wire mesh cloth. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken through the wire mesh cloth and eyelet, the latter being mounted therein. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of the eyelet, showing in detail the mutilated thread thereon. Fig. 5 is an end elevation.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 5

designates a wire mesh cloth for use in win dow or door screens in the ordinary wellknown manner, and in which are adapted to be inserted the exit eyelets, presently described.

Each exit eyelet comprises a tubiform body 6, preferably constructed from aluminum or other metal, although the same may be made from any suitable material, if desired, one end of the body being formed with an out-turned annular flange 7 which is adapted to contact with the inner face of the wire mesh cloth 5, when the said body is inserted in position therein.

Spaced a short distance from the flange 7 and out-struck from the tubular body 5 is a mutilated thread 8, one end of which is offset or outwardly curved, as at 9, so that the eyelet may be screwed into the wire mesh cloth 5, without injury thereto, and also to avoid the necessity of forming the eyelets in the cloth when being made. The eyelets are secured in the cloth at different points thereof to suit the fancy of the user of the same. The tubifo-rm body 5 of each eyelet is forced through one of the interstices of the wire cloth, by inserting a tool or implement like an awl or a lead pencil, so as to increase the size of the interstices correspondingly to that of the tubiform body, whereupon the said body will be turned, so that the screw thread thereon will engage with the wires of the wire mesh cloth 5, whereby the latter will engage between the said thread and the flange on the body, the said flange being adapted to contact with the inner face of the cloth, while the greater portion of the free end of the body will project beyond the outer face thereof, and in this manner the flies on the inside of an inclosure may gain eXit through the eyelets to the outside of the window screen or door.

From the foregoing, it will be obvious that flies in crawling upon the screen will pass through the opening in the body 5 of the eyelet and escape to the outside of the inclosure. The eyelet may be produced at inder and a rib outstruck from and sura slight cost, and will entirely overcome the annoyance of having a few flies in the room.

What is claimed is: As an article of manufacture, an eyelet for screens comprising a cylinder, an out-turned annular flange formed at one end of the cyltherebetween and having one end outwardly curved and tapered toward the free end oi? the cylinder whereby said tapered end merges into the latter.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY B. \VILSON. Vitnesses:

J HN OSHEA, H. Q. JOHNSON.

rounding a greater portion of the cylinder at a point contiguous to the flange, the ends of the rib being separated to provide a gap Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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