US1230148A - Storm-door. - Google Patents

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B. H. GEDGE.

STORM DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. me.

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Patented June 19, 1917.

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BURTON HERBERT GEDGE, ANDERSON, INDIANA.

STORM-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application led March 22, 1916. Serial No. 85,767.-

which can easily be put up and taken down withoutV expert labor.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is a perspective view of a storm door embodying my invention, showing its application to the' outer door of a house; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of such',

a storm door from the rear, with parts broken away to show the construction; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through a storm door, showing its application to a house door of more than ordinary width; Fig. 4 is a detail of one end of one of the top spacing rods; Fig. 5 is adetail of the mounting at one end of one of the bottom spacing rods; Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the lower front corners of the lstorm door; Fig. 7 is a detail of one of the angle irons used at such lower front corner; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the upper corner edges of the storm door, illustrating its adaptability for house doors of different width and height; Fig. 9 is a detail of a preferred form of attachment for the lower edges of the side walls; Fig. 10 is a horizontal section illustrating a modified form of construction; and Fig. 11

is a perspective view of one oftheunit side portions and a part of the top unit portion of the structure shown in Fig. 10.

The house wall 10 with its outer door frame 11, its porch floor 12, and its porch roof 13 are of any usual type. Y Y

My storm door has a door frame 20 within which is hung a hinged door 21. At each upper corner this door frame 20 is provided with a vertically eXtensible brace arm 22, which is adjusted so that its upper end bears against the porch roof 13 and is then fastened to the edges of the door frame 20 by screws. The upper ends of the brace arms 22 have rearwardly projecting ngers 23 for bearing against the porch roof and fitting into staples or eyes 23 fixed to such roof, for holding the door frame against lateral rearward movements and facilitating putting up and taking down. At each lower corner, the door frame is provided with an angle iron 24, which may be provided with downwardly projecting pins 25, which fit into suitable holes in the porch iioor; these pins conveniently being put in place first with the door frame slanting forward and the door frame then being tilted to bring the fingers 23 at the tops of the brace arms 22 into the staples or eyes 23.

The door frame 20 is conveniently made of two layers of boards, as apparent from Figs. 2, 6, and 10; the inner layer being inwardly offset so as to provide an inner shoulder for the door 21 to abut against, as apparent from Fig. 10, and an outer shoulder 26 which is behind the outer layer of boards, as clear from Figs. 2 and 6. The angle iron 24 fits against the lowerv end of this outer shoulder 26.

The door frame 20 is suitably spaced forward from the house wall 10, in front of the house door formed by the door frame 11, and the intervening space between the house door frame 11 and the storm door frame 2O is covered at the sides and at the top with canvas walls 27 and a canvas ceiling 28, to form an inclosed vestibule. This spacing and the support for` the canvas walls and ceiling may be provided in different manners.

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, upper spacing rods 29 and lower spacing rods 30 form the spacing and the support for the canvas walls and ceiling. Each upper spacing rod 29 is preferably made of a wooden bar 31 set in a sheet metal angle iron 32 having a hook 33 at its forward end and a down-turned finger 34 at its rear end for projecting downward into an eye 35 Xed on the back of the storm door frame 20 and the frontof the house door frame 11 or house wall 10 respectively, so that the forward ends of the spacing bars 29 are carried bysuch storm door frame and the rear ends are detachably fastened to the house wall. This makes a very strong construction, and facilitates putting up and taking down, the fingers 34 when in place in their staples 35 locking the ngers 23 in the staples or eyes 23 and holding the frame against forward movement. Each lower spacing bar is of greater height than thickness, is conveniently fastened at its rear end in a socket 36 having ears 37 for attachment to the house wall 10 or door frame 11, and at its forward end has a tongue which extends into a socket formed between the angle iron 24, the lower end of the inner' vertical board at the side of the doorway, and the end of the door sill 38, as clear from Figs. 2 and 6. In addition, if desired, the lower spacing rods 30 may be fastened to the porch ioor 12, as by screws 39. If desired, the door sill 38 may be similarly fastened to the porch floor.

The canvas walls 27 and the canvas ceiling 28 are preferably all in a single piece of fabric, and may be either permanently or removably fastened to the shoulder 26 and to the lower spacing bars 30, but is preferably merely stretched over the upper spacing bars 29. In practice, I prefer to make the fastening permanent on such shoulder 26, as by tacking, and detachable on the lower spacing bars 30, as for instance by turn buttons 42 such as are used for fastening on the curtains of carriages or automobiles, as clear from Fig. 2; these turn buttons 42 are attached to the lower spacing rods 30 after the latter have been laid to conform to the slant of the porch floor l2, and are sufliciently high so that the lower edge of the fabric is well clear of the porch floor, so that it will not be'wetted by water on such porch floor. The canvas ceiling 28 may be provided with a sewed-on up-turned flap 43 at its rear end, for similar fastening to the lintel of the door frame l1 by turn buttons 42, as clear from Figs. l, 2, and 8. Similar flaps 44 may also be provided on ythe rear edges of the side walls 27, and similarly fastened to the uprights of the door frame l1, as clear from Fig. 8. Preferably the rear edge of each side wall 27 has attached thereto a vertical wooden strip 45, which may be fastened against the house wall by screws passing through screw holes 46 in such strip. If the house door frame 11 is of approximately the same width as the storm door frame 20, or wider, the fia-ps 44 are turned outward, as shown in Fig. 8, but if it is narrower the flaps 44 may be turned inward, as shown in Fig. 3. Instead of using turn buttons 42 for fastening the lower edges of the side walls 27 to the lower spacing bars 30, vsuch lower edges may be provided with hems 47, which lie on the outside ofthe lower spacingfbars 30 at a suflicient height above the porch floor to prevent wetting ltherefrom l and mayor may not be fastened thereto, and

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preferably have metal or wooden rods 48 therein; and are also preferably provided near such lower edges with an interior tuck 49, for receiving strips of wood or metal 50 which may be fastened to the spacing bars 30 by screen door hooks 51, thus producing an even pull on the fabric and preventing wrinkling.

Instead of having the ceiling 28 and side walls 27 of one piece and attached to mere spacing bars, as in the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, they may be permanently fastened t0 separate frames 52 and 53, like the frames of screens, and these separate frames may be fastened in place, as against the shoulders 26 and the edges of the house door frame ll, by ordinary screen door hooks 54 crossing the inside corners of the completed structure at an angle, as clear from Figs. 10 and 11.

The frames 52 and 53 form the spacing and bracing means for the door frame 20.l

I claim as my invention:

l. A storm door, comprising a door frame, a door mounted'therein, said door frame being provided with downwardly projecting pins for projecting into holes in the porch lioor and with rearwardly projecting fingers for projecting rearwardly into eyes in the porch ceiling, spacing bars from points on the door frame, said spacing bars being provided with downwardly projecting fingers for projecting downwardly into eyes on the house wall, and canvas walls and ceiling mounted on said door frame and spacing bars.

2. A storm door, comprising aldoor frame, a door mounted therein, said door frame being provided with downwardly projecting pins for projecting intov holes in the porch iioor and with fingers for projecting into4 eyes in the porch ceiling, spacing bars from points on the door frame, said spacing` bars being provided with fingers for projecting into eyes on the house wall, and canvas walls and ceiling mounted on said door frame and spacing bars.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this fourteenth day of March, A. D. onethousand nine hundred and sixteen.

BURTON HERBERT Genen.

Washington, D. C.

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