US1131737A - Post. - Google Patents

Description

B. C. ROCKWELL.

POST.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT, 2s, 1913. RENEWED JULY 23, 1914. 1,131,737.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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BYRD C. ROCKWELL, OF CAIVIDEN, ARKANSAS.

POST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lltar., 16, 1915.

Application filed September 23, 1913, Serial No. 791,362. Renewed July 23, 1914. Serial No. 852,759.

T0 alt whom it may concern Be it known that l, Brno C. Rocxwnnr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Ouachita and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Post, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to posts of that type particularly designed for use in connection with porch screens and similar inclosures at those points where the screens or inclosures are to be connected to the weatherboarding of the building or to the pillars or columns supporting the porch roof. ,Heretofore, in setting up outside inclosures such as porch screens, it has been a diflicult and expensive matter to provide means operating eiiiciently to prevent insects from entering the inclosure between the screen or other structure and the irregular surfaces presentH ed by the walls of the building or turned or irregularly shaped roof supporting posts or columns. There the wall of the building is provided with lapping weatherboards, it has heretofore been necessary to mal-:e care ful measurements of the boards and to cut out strips or posts which would iit snugly against them. Even when excessive care has thus been exercised it has almost been impossible to obtain a perfect iit between the posts or connecting strips and the walls of the buildings. The same diiiiculties have been present where it has been desired to set up screens and the like between roof supporting posts or columns of irregular contours.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide simple and etlicient means which can be set up readily without requiring the services of a skilled mechanic and which, when placed in position, will act etliciently to prevent intrusion of insects between the posts and any irregular surfaces to which they may be attached.

lVith the foregoing and other obiects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings zFigure l is a perspective view of a portion of a post connected to the side of a structure a portion ofV which has been shown, said post embodying the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the post spaced from the wall but with the guard fabric attached to the wall. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the parts in the position shown in 'ig. l. Fig. 4 is a section on line A-B Referring to the figures by characters of reference l designates a post of any desired proportions which may, if preferred, be provided with a groove 2 adapted to receive a screen, panel or the like to be set up in the formation of an inclosure. The post l is provided in that face adapted to contact with a wall or other structure, with a longitudinal channel 3 which can be of any desired cross sectional contour. Secured longitudinally within this channel is one edge of a guard strip 4 formed of canvas or any other suitable fabric, the said guard strip being attached to the post l preferably by means of an adhesive and by tacks. The guard strip 4 can be of any desired width and the channel 3 should be of such size as to receive readily the strip 4 when crumpled up in the manner hereinafter set forth.

In using the post, for example, against the weatherboards of a building, the free longitudinal edge of the guard strip 4 is secured to the weatherboards either by means of an adhesive or by means of tacks or other suitable fastening devices extending through the guard strip and into the angles formed by thevmeeting faces of the boards, as shown at 5 in Fig. 4. Thus the edge portion of the guard strip will be caused to lie snugly against the exposed faces of the weather'- boards and, by using an adhesive, the connection between the weatherboards and the strips 4 can be made even more intimate. After the strip 4 has thus been attached to the wall, indicated generally at C, the post l, which has been first cut to proper length, is moved against the wall so that the guard strip 4 will crumple up and become seated between the wall and post and within the channel 3. The post can then be attached to the wall by means of nails, screws or the like and strip 4 even though crumpled within the post and in the spaces formed between the post and the weatherboards, will n the same will last as long as the post l. The post having the present improvements conibined .therewith can be setup without requiring the services of a skilled mechanic and is not only much less expensive to fit and place than the ordinary cut post and, consequently, less expensive, but it is `also more eiicient as an insect excluding means for the reason that a better or tighter joint can be formed between the post and the wall than would otherwise be possible. After the post has been secured to the wall, as shown in Fig. 1, the guard strip a is practically entirely concealed, except at those points where spaces are formed between the posts and the weatherboards.

What is claimed is l. The combination with a grooved mem- 'ber of a flexible longitudinally foldable strip secured at one longitudinal edge in the groove of said member, the flexible strip As the guard strip 4 is not. sub- Y jected to any strains, it will be obvious that' being of a substantial width when fully withdrawn from the groove, thus enabling its free longitudinal edge to be readily attachedvto an irregula-rsurface opposed to .the grooved face of said member, the groove being of such proportions as to receive the the pro-

longitudinally folded strip when grooved member is in contact with the jections 'of vtheirregular surface.

2. The combination of a flexible strip of a substantial width adapted to be attached along one longitudinal edge to an irregular surface, said strip being foldable longitudinally, and a longitudinally grooved inember, the grooved face of said member being adapted to bear against said irregular surface and the said groove being of such Aproportions as .to receive the longitudinally folded strip when said grooved member is in Contact with said irregular surface.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as zmy own, l have hereto aiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BYRD C. ROCKWELL.

TWitnesses:

' 'V. T. MARTIN, WV. H. HALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cen'cseach, ky addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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