US1731085A - Radiator screen - Google Patents

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I WITNESSz' Oct. 8, 1929. WARREN 1,731,085

RADIATOR SCREEN Filed April 6, 1928 I lftlvz'n Wm,

INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 8, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFKIE MELVIN R. WARREN, OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA.

RADIATOR SCREEN Application filed April 6, 1928. Serial No. 267,951.

This invention relates to straining means chamber with its openend receiving the wafor'the 'water in the cooling system of a moter from the pipe 3 so that this water will tor vehicle, the general object of the invenpass through the sides and closed end of the tion being to provide means for straining medium into the chamber and will pass from the water as it passes from the jacket of the the chamber through the nipple 1 and hose 2' 5 motor to the radiator so as to prevent forinto the radiator. The screening medium is eign matter in the water from clogging the formed of a wire frame 9 having its sides radiator. and one end covered with wire mesh 10. Another object of the invention is to. so Projectionsll extend from the front end of 10 form the screening device that it can be the frame and abut the front end of the case0 easily and quickly put in place and to proing and these projections act as spacing. vide means for cleaning the screening memeans for'holding the front end of the dium whenever necessary. 1 screening medium away from the front end This invention also consists in certain of the casing and they also help to hold the other features of," construction and in the screening medium in place in the casing with combination and arrangement of the several its rear end bearing against the rear end of parts, to be hereinafter fully described, ilthe casing with the rear edges bearing lustrated in the accompanying drawings and against the rear portions of the flaring walls specifically pointed out in the appended of the rear half of the casing. 29 claim. From the foregoing it will be seen that all 7a In describing my invention in detail, refthe water passing from the water jacket to erence will be had to the accompanying the radiator must pass through the cupdrawings wherein like characters denote like shaped screening medium so that foreign or corresponding parts throughout the sevmatter in the water will be caught by said as oral views, and in which medium and prevented from passing into Figure 1 is a view showing portion of a the radiator. When the screening medium motor and a radiator, with the invention lobecomes clogged, it is simply necessary to cated in the line which connects the water remove the bolts'5 and separate the two jacket of the motor with the radiator. halves of the casing and remove the screen- 39 Figure 2 is a sectional view through the ing medium to clean the same. so device. As before stated, this device will prevent Figure 3 is a section on line 33 of Figclogging of the radiator by foreign matter ure 2. ,v contained in the water and which'usually In these views, A indicates a casing havconsists ofrust and the like picked up as the 35 ing the nipples 1 thereon for receiving the water circulates through the jacket of the hose 2 which connects the casing with the motor. radiator and with the return pipe 3 which It is thought from the foregoing descripconveys the water from the jacket of the tion that the advantages and 'novel features motor to the top of theradiator. This casof my invention will be readily apparent. 4e ing is formed of two halves each half being It is to be understood that I may make indicated at 4, the two halves being fastened changes in the construction and in'the com-. together by the bolts 5 which pass through bination and arrangement of the several holes formed in the flanges 6 on the abutting parts, provided that such changes fall withends of the halves. A gasket? is placed bein the scope ofthe appended claim. 45 tween'the flanges as shown, to make a water What I claim is tight joint. In a pipeline, a casing formed in sections, Each half flares outwardly toward the the sections having outwardly flaring side other half so as to provide a chamber larger portions and fiat ends, means for removably at the center than at its ends and a cupconnecting the sections together, a cup- 60 shaped-screening medium 8 is placed in said shaped screening medium placed in the cas- 2 memes ing with its open end fitting against the fiat end of one section which forms the rear end of the casing, said screening medium comprising a'i'rame formed of wire and having 5 its sides and front end covered With Wire mesh, some of the Wires being spaced around the side and extending through the closed end of the medium and resting freely but tightly against the'fiat end of the front seetion, with the open end of the medium held in position by the flaring wall atthe rear section.

In testimony Whereoi it afix my signature.

MELV 1N WARREN.

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