US1763371A - Screen mounting - Google Patents

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Jqne 10, 1930. J. c. SCHEEL ER SCREEN MOUNTING Filed Dec. 31, 1928 Patented June 10, 1930 JOHN C. SCHEELER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR T BUFFALO VV'IR-E 703.15% (10., ING, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A COBPURATION OF NEW'YORK SCREEN IVIOUNTTNG Application filed. December 31, 1928.

This invention relates to means for detachably mounting a screen in an opening formed in a wall of an automobile or vehicle.

As is well known to motorists who drive a car with the windows open in the summer time, bees, bugs, and insects and also dust and soot enter through the window opening, which is not only annoying but also dangerous.

It is the purpose of this invention to provide simple and eflicient means whereby screens may be readily and quickly mounted in a window opening and also removed there from and which will not detract from the neat appearance of the car.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of an enclosed automobile body showing the door forming a side wall of the car provided with a window opening in which a screen is mounted in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section, on an enlarged scale, taken on line 22, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 3--3, Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevation, on an enlarged scale, showing a bracket and associated parts for mounting the screen in the window openin of a wall.

In the following description similar characters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Although this invention is capable of use in mounting a screen in a window opening of a wall which may form part of various kinds of structures the same is shown, for example. in the present case in connection with the window opening of a door 11 forming part of the side wall of the enclosed body of an automobile.

This opening may be covered or uncovered by a glass pane 12 which may be shifted by any suitable means.

The screen is preferably mounted within the window opening on the outer side of the glass pane and in its preferred form this screen consists of a rectangular frame 13 of flat metal and a panel 14 of woven wire fab- Serial No. 329,341.

ric extending across this frame and secured at its edge thereto by solder or otherwise.

The means which embody my invention for removably mounting this screen within the window opening are preferably constructed as follows:

At its lower edge the frame of the screen provided with one or more downwardly projecting fastening pins 15, preferably two of them adjacent to the lower corners of the frame and connected thereto by rivets 16 or other suitable means. Each of these pins is adapted to engage a socket 17 in the lower horizontal side 18 of the window opening. On each vertical side of the window opening adjacent to the upper end thereof the same is provided with a bracket which is detachably secured to the adjacent upright frame bar of the screen. Tn its preferred form this bracket is made of metal in the shape of the letter L, and one leg 19 thereof forms a base and is secureo to the adjacent vertical side 20 of the window opening and the other leg 21 thereof forms an abutment and engages the inner side of the adjacent upright frame bar of the screen.

The leg 21 of the bracket is detachably connected with the respective frame bar by a screw stem 22 projecting outwardly or f0rwardly through said frame bar, and a screw nut 23 applied to the outer end of said stem and bearing against the outer side of said frame.

For the purpose of permitting the brackets to be secured to the vertical sides of the window opening without cutting into the same and still permit the screen frame to fill the entire window opening, each of the upright bars of the screen frame is provided with a notch 24 which receives the base leg 19 of the respective bracket.

By these means the screen can be easily and conveniently mounted in the window frame during the summer time when required as well as-dismounted during winter time when not needed. When the screen is mounted the same preserves the neat appearance of the car and when the screen is removed the brackets are inconspicuous and do not detract from the appearance of the car.

Owing to the simplicity of this mounting the same can be manufactured economically and applied to cars With no appreciablein crease in cost. 7 i I claim as my invention:' In an automobile Window screen of the type having an apertured frame, a frame support comprising an L-shaped bracket having one leg adapted to be secured to the window of an automobile and the other leg adapted to engage With one side of the frame over the aperture in the frame, a screw-stem integral with and projecting from said last mentioned leg and adapted to pass outwardly through the aperture in the frame, and a screw-nut adapted to engage said screw-stem and to bear against the outer side of the frame.

In testimony whereof I hereby affix my signature.

JOHN G. (SCHEELER.

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