US1150365A - Window-screen. - Google Patents

Description

R. HEINSOHN. WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION man SEPT-22. 1914.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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cOLUMIA PLANOORAPH CO-IWASHINGTON. D. c.

R. HEINSOHN.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED saw-22. I914.

Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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HEI SQH e Mount Vernon, in thercounty of Westchester and State of New York, have invented cer tain new and useful Iinproyements in1Win- I dow-Sereens, of which the following is a specification,

= sashes.

atlliS- character, a 1 v v Anotheriobject 'of the invention is to pro- This. invention relates to improvements in window screens, and has for one of its obj sets to improve; the construction and I increase the efliciency and-uti'lityof devices of vide a simply constructed device, which -is ing widths between the side members'and which may beare'ladily inserted into audiemoved from a window frame Without-alter ation or modification of the] framecor;the

nWith these and he invention consists in certain} novel features of construction as rhereinafter; shown and described-and then spec fically pointed out in.the,claims; and in the drawings illus} trat'ive of the' preferred embodiment of the inventioni Figurelqisaside elevation-partly insec :tion of one ofthe lmproyedscreens. L F1g. 2 s an edge V ew of the same. @Fig 31s amen ti cal section j on the line 3%?! of FigQLtFig.

dis a'sectionon the'line L-itof Fig. :1, ,Fig; represents portions of the' frame members at one corner in perspective and separated.

' Correspondingand like parts arefreferred to in the following description andindicated in'all the views of the .accorhpanyihgtdfaW- ing's' by the same reference characters, A

t The improved device comprises in general a screen [frame havingfside members aand hollow end members and provided with the usual 'screen material bearing members spaced from the side members and extend ing in parallel relation thereto, springs within the hollow end members of the frame,

. and rods connectedto the bearingmembers and extendlng into the hollow end members and coupled to the springs, the springs operating upon the rodstomaintainthe bearing members yieldably 1n thelr outerposition;

The bearing members arefdesigned tb engage the confronting faces of a windowframe, and are preferably formed withya groove in their outer faces to engage guiding members attached to the window frame.

side membersfof frame to .the screen, material is attached ter ial' being held einmposition in thej-rabbet by holding strips l2, The end members of the frame for the screen material eachcomprises a body portion- 13 havinga longitudijnally directed cavity or pocket 14 closedjat the ends as illustrated at 15 in -Figs. land 5. Thebody members l3 are united inany suitablejmanner at their ends to'the side members 10, and one face of the end membersis flush with "one face ofthe side mem 1 hers, while the opposite sides of the end members are flush with thebottoms of the i i rabbets of theside members, so that the edge the screen material 11 will bear upon the inner portions of the hollowend members.

A strip .ofsheetmetal, indicated at 16, is edisposed oyerthe hollow end members and oi ep theportion the screen material bearthereon and is turned outwardly aat its uter edge as indicated at 17, the object to be hereinafter explained. a p a t Bearing :upongthe outer faceof the sheet metal member 16 isa filling strip 18 preferably of wood, the two portions l6.18 form- I ingtheclosures to the hollows of the end members, the terminals of the members 16-118engaging in theterminals of the rabbet portionofvthe side membersklO. By this arrangement. the outer faces of the members 18 and .12 and the body portion of the side members 10 are flush throughout, while the outturned edges 1? of the sheet 1 a metal strips extend slightly beyond the outer faces of the filler memberslS, as illustrated in Fig.3, to bear against the window sill, and likewise to bear against the adjacent faeejof the sash to exclude insects, as herematter eXplained. f f e a -The bearingmembers ZLI'GCllSPOSGd ad acent to the side members 10 of the frame and are represented ;as a whole at 19 and each formed with a longitudinal channel or groove 2O in the outer face adapted to engage guide strips of the usual form attached to the'adjacent face of the Window frame,

the guide strips not being shown as their construction is sorwell known. Attached to i eaehiof the members 19 is a pull member preferably U-shaped, as indicated at 22, and

extending through suitable apertures or re- Specificaitiohof Letters J Patent. Patented Aug, 1'2, i f i pnl tiQn e e e e 2 1 s i ll r 62375:

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