US1475103A - Ventilating blind - Google Patents

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Nov. 20 1923.

J. H. woon VENTILATING BLIND Filed Feb. 27. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IIHMWZ [NVENTOR ATTORNEY 'WITNESS:

Patented ev. 20, 1923.

[ST-ABS JOE H. WOOD, OF WADESBORO, LOUISANA.

VENTILATING BLIND.

Application filed February 27, 1922. Serial No. 539509.

Improvements in Ventilating Blinds, of

which the following is a specification.

M present invention has reference to a windbw attachment and is in the nature of a blind which may be arranged to not only serve as an obstruction of vision or light, but which is also designed to properly direct currents of air through the window casing on which it is attached.

A further object is to produce a ventilating blind for window casings that comprises a flat plate or body supported on a bracket Secured directly below the window sill in a manner which permits of the said plate or body being arranged horizontally on the bracket to serve as a shelf or table, to arrange the plate or body in a vertical position with respect to the window casing, to arrange the late orbody at an inward inclination wthrespect to the casing, and also to arrange the plate or body at. di'erent vertical angles with respect `to the window casing, whereby currents of air passing in.

either direction will be deflected and directedi by contact with the saidplate or body into the room from either side of the window casing The foregong, and other objects which will appear as the nature of the invention 'is better understood, may be accomplished by a Construction, combinationand operative association of -parts, such as is disclosed by the drawings which accompany 'and which form a part of this specification.

In the drawings:-'- I Figura 1 is a perspective view of a building illustrating the improvement in applied position thereon.

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are plan views illustrating diferent positions which the blind may be caused to assume with respect to the window casing. v

Figure 5 is an approximately central vertical longitudinal sectional t view through the su porting means for the blind, a portion ol the building and a portion of the blind being also in section.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the numeral 1 designates a portion of, a building having the usual openings for the doors and windows, one of the window casings being illustrated and indicated by the numeral 2. On the exterior of the building 1, below the sill of the casing 2, I secure the flat body portion of a bracket 3. The bracket has at its upper 'edge a centrally arranged outstanding ear 4 that may be provided with an upstanding threaded pintle 5. The pintle 5 passes through an' opening in the headed end of an arm 7, and a winged nut 6 is screwed on the pivot to exert a' bindin action between the arm and bracket. -he arm 7 is received in a socket 8, a binding element such as a screw 9 passing through one side of the socket and Contacting with one of the edges of the arm, whereby the socket is adjustably Secured on the arm. The socket has formed on its upper face an L-shaped extension, the vertical element of which being indicated by the numeral 10, and the horizontal element by the numeral 11. The angle or L-shaped member of the socket has its longitudinal branch or arm 11 projected a suitable distance beyond the end of the socket, and the said end of the arm is formed with an enlargement in the nature of a head 12. On the head 12 there rests the head portion 13 of an arm 14:, a suitable pivot 15 passing through the heads 12 and 13, the same being threaded and engaged by a binding element 16 which Contacts with the head 13. The arm 14 has its free end provided with a head which is arranged right angularly with respect to its head 13, the referred to head being, for distinction, indicated by the numeral17, and is received between cars 18 on spaced plates 19 Secured by means 20 to a flat body member in the nature of a blind 21. The blind 21 is of a size approximately eq ualling that of the lower sash 22 in the window casing 2, but may, of course, be of a greater length than the height of the said' sash. There is passed through the cars 18 on the plates 19, and through the head 17 ofthe arm 14 a pivot member 23 which is threaded and which is engaged by a bindin elementsuc'h as a winged nut 2 1.

ith my imprdvement, as illustrated in' Figure 1 of the drawings, the lower sash.

22 may be completely covered by the blind 21, thus obstructing vision from the exteriorof the building, the blind 21, however, being suitably spaced away from contact with thesash 20 as to permit of the entrance of air into the room. As disclosed in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings, the blind 21 may be arranged at difl'erent Vertical angles ,so as to direct air Currents into the room from either side of the window casing, while in Figure 4 of the drawings, it will be seen i that the blind may be swung outwardly to a horizontal position with respect *to the building so that the said blind can serve as a shelf or table. The binding element for the threaded pintles employed are preferably in the nature of winged nuts, so that the same can be easily adjusted. The angle arm carrying socket 8, being adjustable upon the arm 7 can be so positioned that the blind 21 may be arranged tightly against the window casing or at a suitable distance therefrom. The blind can be swung to arrange the same at a downward angle with respect to the window casing so that the said blind will serve as a shed for `'water in rainy seasons, and it is thought that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction, 'operation and advantages of the improvement to those skilled in the art to which such inventions relate.

Having described the invention, I claim The combination, in a Window attachment, for the purpose set forth, of a bracket Secured to a building adjacent to a window casing, an arm' pivotally Secured to the bracket, binding means between the arm and bracket, a socket slidable on the arm, binding means between the socket and arm, said socket carrying an upwardly projected member which` terminates in a longitudinal portion, an arm pivotally supported on said longitudinal portion, binding means therefor, a fiat plate comprising a blind, a hinged connection between the blind and the last mentioned arm, and binding means between said hinged connection and said arm.

In testimony whereof I affix' my signature.

JOE H. WOOD.

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