US1732628A - Window screen - Google Patents

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06L 1929- L. J. BARIBAULT 1,732,623

WINDOW SCREEN Filed May 14, 1927 Patented Oct. 22, 1929 UNITED STATES LUCIEN J. BARIBAULT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT WINDOW SCREEN Application filed May 14, 1927. Serial No. 191,311.

This invention relates to an improvement in window-screens, and particularly to cornerbraces for that class of Window-screens having metal frames.

The object of this invention is to provide, at a low cost for manufacture, an attractive and durable window-screen constructed with particular reference to superior rigidity.

With this object in view, my invention con- 1e sists in a corner-brace for window-screens and the like, comprising a body-portion; two diverging arms extending outward at right angles from the said body-portion near the outer edges thereof and each adapted to fit 13 within a hollow screen-rail; and a forwardly opening right-angle groove formed in the inner corner of the brace and adapted to receive the end of a cloth-retaining moulding in each of its diverging reaches respectively.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a broken view in elevation of one corner of a screen constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the 33 line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a broken longitudinal sectional view on the line 1-4. of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cornerbrace detached.

In the embodiment of my invention herein shown, I employ a c0rner-brace comprising a body-portion which in exterior form substantially conforms to the shape of a horizontal hollow sheet-metal rail 11 and a corresponding vertical rail 12. The said bodymember is reduced in size so as to form two transverse abutment-shoulders 13 and 1 1 eX- tending at a right angle with respect to each other and two arms 15 and 16 extending outward from the said shoulders and adapted to respectively enter the interior of the sheetmetal rails 11 and 12 aforesaid. Each of the said rails is formed on its inner edge with a channel 17, into which the edges of the screencloth 18 are deflected, where they are held in place by so-called moulding-strips 19, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. Formed in the said body-member 10 and aligned at its opposite ends with the channels 17 of the rails 11 and 12, I locate a right angle moulding-socket which receives the adjacent ends of the moulding-strips 19, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

By preference, I secure the rails 11 and 12 to the arms 15 and 16 of the corner-brace by soldering them in place thereon, so that the end of the rail 11 and the abutment-shoulder 13 will be firmly united as will also the ends of the rail 112 and the abutment-shoulder 1 1. Thus, in addition to the rigidity obtained by causing the arms 15 and 16 to extend into the interior of the rails 11 and 12, their ends are firmly united to the body-portion of the corner-brace. This construction I have found to be much superior, in so far as a screen thus constructed will retain its rigidity, despite considerable abuse. By interposing the bodymember 10 between the ends of the rails 11 and 12, as shown, I avoid the necessity of carefully mitering, into close union, the adjacent ends of the rails 11 and 12.

I claim:

A corner-brace for window-screens and the like, comprising a body-portion; two diverging arms extending outward at right angles from the said body-portion near the outer edges thereof and each adapted to fit within a hollow screen-rail; and a forwardly-opening right-angle groove formed in the inner so corner of the brace and adapted to receive the end of a cloth-retaining moulding in each of its diverging reaches respectively.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

LUCIEN J. BARIBAULT.

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