US1597972A

US1597972A - Register wall guard

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Publication number: US1597972A
Application number: US70419A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward G Heartick
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-11-20
Filing date: 1925-11-20
Publication date: 1926-08-31
Anticipated expiration: 1943-08-31

Description

. Aug. 31, 1926. 1,597,972

E. G. HEARTICK REGISTER WALL GUARD Filed Nov. 20, 1925 INVENTOR.

A TTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 31, 1926.

UNITED- STATES EDWARD G. HEARTICK, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

REGISTER WALL GUARD.

Application filed November This invention relates to hot air register hoods, and has special reference to a register hood adapted to be placed over hot air registers located in a floor and intended to deflect the rising stream of hot air away from an adjacent wall so as not to cause deposition of dust on such wall with subsequent soiling thereof.

One important object of the invention is to improve and simplify the construction of such hoods.

A second important object of the inven tion is to provide a hood of-this character wherein a dust collecting surface may be employed which may be renewed from time to time or which may be removed, cleansed and replaced.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like partsin the several views, and;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of such a register hood in position on a register in a corner of a room.

Figure 2 is a. perspective view showing certain parts of the device separated in order to disclose the manner in which the dust collecting fabric is secured to the hood.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of the hood.

The invention comprises a pair of segmental end members each composed of a series of strips 10 connected together at one end by a rivet or bolt ll-and expanded fanwise. These members are preferably arouate at their 'outer ends and connecting the two ends is a curved top 12 having a bead 13 at its front edge and a similar head 14 at its rear edge. Fitting over these beads are clips-15 U-shaped in cross section so that when the fabric 16 is stretched from one edge to the cover 12 and doubled around the heads, the clips may be applied thereto and hold the fabric as a chord across the curve of the cover 12 as shown clearly in Figure 3. Preferably, before applying this fabric is dipped in some dust absorbing medium such as oil or a like composition.

'20, 1925. Serial No. 70,419.

Thus when placed over the radiator R as shown in Figure 1 the hot air flowing upward strikes the fabric 16 and is deflected outwardly, the dust content collecting on the fabric. When the fabric becomes so coated with dust that it is ineflicient in action it may be removed by slipping off the members cloth should be used for this purpose and the porous nature of this fabric has the ad ditional benefit of. permitting the curved cover 12 to act in aiding the outward deflection ofthe up flowing air.

It will be noted that the hood here shown is of greater horizontal dimensions than of vertical, but it is to be understood that these dimensions may be varied and that the hood may be turned in one direction for a broad register and in the other for a narrow register.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient deviceof the kind described and for the purpose specified.

1t isobvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

The combination in a register hood, of a pair of end members of corresponding shape each having two edges arranged at angles to each other, a cover plate connecting the re maining edges of said end members and extending transversely of the hood, a dust absorbing fabric having a viscous coating secured to the transversely extending edges of the cover plate and stretched tightly therebetween, and releasable clips for securing said fabric to said edges of the cover plate. a

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDWARD G. HEARTICK.