US1750659A - Window screen - Google Patents

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March 1s, 1930. 3.1. BARCLAY 1,750,659

WINDOW SCREEN Filed Jan. 5, 1927.

I Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT4 OFFICE GUSTAF IVAR BARCLAY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO DETROIT STEEL PRODUCTS COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN i WINDOW SCREEN y Application filed January 3, 1927. Serial No. 158,743.

The invention relates to window screens and refers more particularly to means for attaching screens to reversible ventilator windows in which the ventilators open inwardly. Heretofore it has been found very dithcult and costly to provide screens for windows of this character. With my invention the screens may be readily attached to the window and det-ached therefrom and when in place provide for the free movement of the ventilator. Furthermore, with my invention cutting or mutilating of the window to provide for securing the screens thereto is avoided. With these as well as other objects in View, the invention resides in the novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an outside elevation of a window embodying my invention;

Figures 2, 3 and 4 are cross sections on the lines 2-f2, 3-3 and 4 4 of Figure 1.

The window shown in the present instance has the inwardly opening reversible ventilator 1 and the frame 2. The frame has the jamb bars 3, the sill bar 4 and the lintel bar 5 and also the weathering strips 6 which are secured to the jamb bars and the weathering 3o strip 7 which is secured to the lintel bar.

These weathering strips have transversely extending flanges 8 which extend into the window opening and are adapted to overlie the bars of the ventilator when the latter is in closed position. These weathering strips also have the intermediate portions 9 connecting into the flanges 8 vand forming with the adjacent portion of the jamb bars and lintel bar the outwardly opening recesses 10A 0 These weathering strips further have portions connecting into the intermediate portions 9 and forming channels 11 wth the channels of the jamb weathering strips 6 slidably engaged by suitable shoes 12 Ito which the lower `ends of the side bars of the ventilator are pivotally connected. The side bars of the ventilators are also pivotally connected to the lower ends of the levers 13 the upper ends of these levers being pivotally connected to mths jamb weatheringv strips and jambs near their upper ends. The arrangement issuch that the ventilator may be horizontally swung inward and reversed to permit cleaning both sides of its glass.

14 is the screen attachable to the window l, and having the metallic tubular frame 14 and the detachable clip 16 engaging in a channel of the tubular frame for holding the screen mesh in place. The bottom bar 17 of the screen frame is laterally opposite the bottom bar 15 of the ventilator and to permit freely moving the ventilator the bottom bar of the screen frame is spaced outwardly from the bottom bar of the ventilator to provide the necessary clearance. To detachably secure the screen to the window and at the same time to close the openings between the side bars of the screen iframe and the jamb bars of the window frame and the bottom bar of the screen frame and the sill bar of the window frame I have provided the following construction: v

The transverse flange 8 of the lintel weathering strip 7 is co-eXtensive with the weathering strip and depends at the outer sides of the transverse langes of the jamb weathering strips to form downwardly opening pockets at the upper ends of the recesses formed between the jambs and their weathering strips. These downwardly opening pockets which are 30 at the upper corners of the window frame are engageable by the members 18 for retaining the screen in place. These members 18 are preferably formed of sheet metal and each has a flatbody 19 which is secured to a side bar of the screen frame 14 and the bead 2O at one edge of the body. This bead has the upper extension 21 above the upper end of the body and engageable in a downwardly opening pocket, thereby holding the upper portion of the screen in place with the upper bar of the screen frame against the outer side of the transverse iange 8 of the lintel weathering strip 7. To support the screen, I have provided supporting members which extend in the outwardly opening recesses 10 and at'their lower ends and have bodies 22 Within these recesses andsecured to the intermediate portions 9 of the amb weathering strips. Each 4of thesel supporting members has the voutthe retaining members.

wardly extending projection 28 with the upwardly and inwardly inclined nose 2li at its upper end providing the vertically extending shoulder 25. Each supporting member also has the transverse lateral lug 26 at its lower end for spacing the bottom bar 17 of the screen frame laterally outward from the sill bar fl of the window frame, this lug being so positioned that it will not interfere with the opening or closing movement of the ventilator. Each retaining member 18 has the lower end portion of its. bead 2O engageable behind the shoulder and adapted to rest `upon the upper end of the body of the supporting member. The upper extensions 21 of the retaining members are sufficiently long to permit of the necessary upward movement of the retaining members to slide over the noses at the upper ends of the supporting members so that the screen may be readily attached to or detached from the window.

The screen retaining means also function as closures for the openings between the side bars of the screen frame and the jamb bars or jamb bar weathering' strips of the window frame, this being accomplished by the bodies 19 of the retaining members 18 and the projections 23 of the supporting members below To close the space between the bottom bar 17 of the screen frame and the sill bar l of the window frame, I have provided the flexible closure 28 vwhich is secured to the lower side of the bottom bar 17 and extends upwardly at an angle to engage the outer upper corner of the sill bar. This flexible closure is sufficiently thin to extend between the bottom bar of the ventilator and the sill bar of the window frame when the ventilator is in closed position and at this time the bottom bar of the ventilator operates to clamp the flexible closure in place and to assist in retaining the screen, making it impossible to remove screen frame from outside when ventilator is closed.

From the above description, it will be seen that I have provided a simple construction for installing the screen and that the invstallation may be accomplished without materially affectingror alterating the window construction and with very little labor.

That I claim as my invention is:

1. In a screen support of t-he type used with swinging window sash, comprising retaining members carried by the screen and having portions engagea-ble in inwardly opening pockets formed in the window frame, and means carried by the window'frame for holding the retaining members in engagement with said pockets.

2. In a screen support of the type used with swinging window sash, comprising retaining members secured to the screen adjacent the side edges, thereof and having portions detachably engageable in inwardly opening pockets formed inthe window frame at certain of its corners, and means carried bythe window frame for guiding and normally holding the retaining mem ers in engagement with the pockets.

8. In a screen support of the type used with swinging window sash, comprising retaining members secured to the screen adjacent the side edges thereof and having portions spaced laterally outwardly from said side edges and arranged to engage in downwardly opening pockets formed in the window frame at its upper corners, and supporting elements secured to the window frame and having upwardly inclined surfaces operable to guide the portions aforesaid of the retaining members into engagement with 'the pockets.

4. In a screen support of the type used with a swinging window sash, comprising retaining members secured in spaced relation upon the screen and having portions insertable into inwardly opening pockets formed in the frame for holding a portion of the frame in position upon the window frame, and supporting elements carried by the window frame and having inclined surfaces operable to guide the portions aforesaid of the retaining members into said pockets; said surface terminating in shoulders engageable with the retaining members to hold the remaining portions of the frame in position.

5. In a screen support of the type used with a swinging window sash, comprising retaining members secured to the screen adjacent the side edges thereof and top of the same, said members having portions insertable in downwardly opening pockets formed in the window frame at its upper corners for holding the upper portions of the screen in position upon the window frame, supporting elements carried by the window frame adjacent the lower end thereof and having upwardly inclined surfaces in alignment with the pockets aforesaid for guiding the portions aforesaid of the retaining members into 'engagement with the pockets, and shoulders on said elements adjacent the upper ends of said surfaces and cooperating with adjacent portions of the window frame to form pockets for receiving the lower end portions of said retaining member to hold the lower portions of said screen in position.

6. In a screen support of the type used with a swinging window sash, comprising retaining members carried by the screen adjacent the side edges thereof and engageable taining members carried' by the screen and extending along opposite side edges of the latter, said members arranged to engage in recesses formed in opposite side bars of the frame and having the upper and lower end portions thereof engageable in inwardly eX- tending pockets formed in the frame at the ends of the recesses, and means upon said frame adjacent the lower pockets for guiding said retaining members into engagement with the pockets.

8. In a. screen support of the type used wit-h a swinging window sash, comprising a flexible strip secured to one bar of the screen and coextensive therewith, said member having a portion arranged to be clamped between adjacent bars of the window frame and swinging sash when the latter is in closed position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

GUSTAF IVAR BARCLAY.

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