US2289606A - Adjustable automobile screen - Google Patents

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July 14, 1942. A. VENDITT I ADJUSTABLE AUTOMOBILE SCREEN Filed July 28, I941 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 14, 1942. A. VENDlTTl I ADJUSTABLE AUTOMOBILE SCREEN Filed July 28, 1941 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 g Z A MM M w W I Patented July 14, 19 42 1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 9 Claims.

My present invention relates to and provides an improved quickly adjustable window screen especially adapted for use in connection with automobile windows; and, generally stated, consists of the novel devices, combinations of devices, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The present invention is in the nature of an improvement on or modification of the improved screen disclosed and claimed in my prior United States Patent No. 2,240,588 of May 6, 1941.

In the present improved screen mechanism the screen .proper is made up of hingedly connected sections, one of which has a slot or passage through which may be passed the angularly adjustable deflecting pane or section of the window structure. The objects of the present invention may be briefly summarized as follows: to provide a screen that when not in use will be entirely out of the way and out of the line of vision of the driver; to provide a supporting mechanism for the screen by means of which the screen may be quickly and accurately positioned in a window opening; to provide a screen structure that may be folded into small space and then moved into an inoperative position; and to provide certain details of construction which make the above noted objects easy to accomplish and the operations easy to perform.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a preferred form of the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective showing the interior of an automobile body and illustrating the preferred manner of applying the improved de- Vice so that the screen can be readily moved to and from operative positions, some parts being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig.

Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective showing a hinge structure that connects sections of the screen proper;

Fig. 4 is a detail in section taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a View corresponding to Fig. 4 but illustrating different positions of the parts;

Fig. 6 is a detail in section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section taken on the line l'l of Fig. 4;

Fig. 8 is a view corresponding to Fig. 6 but with certain parts removed;

Fig. 9 is a view corresponding somewhat to Fig. 5, but showing the screen supporting mechanism slid to a different position than that shown in the other views;

Fig. 10 is a view in elevation showing the sections of the screen mechanism folded in a cornpact form;

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary section taken on the line Illl of Fig. 10;

Fig. 12 is a view corresponding in lines of section with Fig. 11, but showing the screen sections opened or turned into operative condition; and

Fig. 13 is a fragmentary section taken on the line l3l3 of Fig. 12. 7

Of the p'arts of the automobile, it is only desirable for the purpose of this case, to particularly note the enclosed body I4 and one of the front doors l5, which latter is adapted to be opened and closed by a vertically movable slid able pane l8 and a hinged angularly adjustable supplemental transparent pane or deflector ii.

The multi section screen is made up of an intermediate screen section l8, a rear section l 9, and a forwardly tapered front section 29, and which screen sections are provided with metallic frames l8, J9 and 20. When these three sections are turned into a common plane, they are adapted to fit closely within or against the respective window frames and will close the same against the passage of insects and the deflecting blade I! will then be projected through a framed passage 2| located in the screen section 20 and secured to the frame 20, as best shown in Fig. 1 but also partially shown in Fig. 2. As an over head support for the screen structure, I provide a substantially horizontally disposed supporting bar 22 that is preferably made channel-shaped- This channel-shaped arm, at one end, is pivoted, riveted, or otherwise rigidly secured by means of an anchoring bracket 23 and rivets or bolts 24 to the overhead front portion of the interior portion of the automobile body M. The arm 22 is thus positioned immediately over the front door opening. The channel of the outer end of the arm 22 is closed and its flanges, near its closed end, are provided with lock notches 25 and 26,'see particularly Fig. 8.

A supporting head 21, as shown in the form of a disc, is mounted to slide in the channel bar or arm 22 and this head is provided with a projecting web 28 provided in its lower edge with a lock notch 29. A bifurcated or two-plate arm 39 embraces and is pivoted to the upper portion of the flange 28 at 3|. To the free end of the arm 30 an angular bracket 32 is rigidly secured, see particularly Figs. 4, 5 and 9, and this bracket 32 is rigidly secured to the intermediate portion of the centrally located screen frame 18'. As best shown in detail in Fig. 3, I show a hinge connection that is applied between the frame sections l8 and I9 and is also used as a hinge connection between the frame sections I8 and 20. The hinge connection is made by pivotally connected offset ears 33 and the adjacent frame bars are provided, the one with a lock flange 34, and the other with a lock flange 35. The lock flange 34 has a perforation 36 and the flange 35 is provided with two perforations or holes 31 and 38 that are diametrically spaced.

The numeral 39, see particularly Figs. 1, 9, 10, ll, 12 and 13, is an open rectangular lock frame that has approximately the same outline as the frame [8. This frame is rigidly secured to a lock plunger 40 that works between the plates of the arm 30. The inner end of plunger 49, by a rivet or pivot pin 4|, see Fig. 7, is arranged to slide in slots 42, see Fig. 5, in the sides of the plates of arm 30. The sides of the frame 39 are provided with L-shaped hooks 43, see particularly Fig. 13, that are engageable through the aligned perforations of the lock flanges 34 and 35.

The numeral 44 indicates a bifurcated lock lever, the side plates of which are pivoted on the ends of the rivet or pivot pin 4|. The side plates of the lock lever 44 are rounded and act as cams against flanges 45 and pins 45 on the sides of arm 30, as will appear in the description of the operation. Lock lever 44 has a projecting end 44 that is adapted to be engaged and held in locking position by a lock hook 41 carried by the lock frame 39. On frame 39 is an additional lock finger 48 that is adapted to enter a perforation 49 in the flange of bracket 32 which is rigidly secured to flange 45.

As shown in Figs. 11 and 12, the abutting edges of the screen frames l8, I9 and 29' are provided with stop flanges or lugs 53 that limit the opening or spreading movements of the screen sections to positions in which they will be in a common plane.

Rigidly secured on the anchored or inner end v 5| has a lock notch 52 with which, under certain adjustments, the end of lock plunger 49 will engage to hold the screen structure raised and in an inoperative position, as shown by full lines in Fig. 9 and by dotted lines in Fig. 1. A stop lug 53 on the anchored end of arm 22 limits the movement of the head 21 to a position in which the plunger 40 will be aligned for engagement with the notch 52 of arm 5|.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the screen projected in position for use. To look the screen structure thus positioned, the head 21 is moved outward to the position shown in Fig. 6 and then the head, which carries flange 2B, is pressed upwardly in the channel of arm 22 so as to cause flange 28 to engage notch 26, and then arm 33 is turned downward to the position shown in Fig. 4, thereby causing a lug-like flange 33' of said arm to engage in the notch 25, thereby locking the screen supporting elements against rotation and against sidewise movement.

Next, by raising lock frame 39, the screen sections l9 and 20 are released so that they may be turned into a common plane and into proper engagement with the window frame. Then to lock the screen sections thus spread and properly positioned, the lock frame 39 is pressed upwardly, thereby accomplishing two things, to wit: first, the lock fingers 43 will be engaged with the overlapping and perforated lock flanges of the several screen sections and thereby lock the screen sections against folding movement and pressed against their stop lugs 59. The said movement of the frame 39, however, is not accomplished by direct action but by movement of lock lever 44 which operates as follows: when moved to the position shown in Fig. 5, said lever operates on pins 46 to force the lock frame 39 to releasing position shown in Fig. 5, but when lock lever 44 is moved in the opposite direction, to wit: a clockwise direction in respect to Fig. 5, the cam surface will act on flange 45 as a base of reaction and will move frame 39 to the position shown in Fig. 4, which moves plunger 40 into engagement with the then aligned lock notch 29 of flange 28, and causes hook-like lock fingers or lugs 43 to be engaged with the aligned holes of flanges 34 and 35.

From the foregoing, it is evident that by movements of the lock frame 39, the screen sections may be locked in a common plane or may be locked in folding position.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the kind described, a supporting bar anchored at one end, a head slidable on said bar, a framed screen hingedly supported from said head, and means operative to lock the frame to said head and said head to the extended end of said bar.

2. The structure defined in claim 1 in which there is also means for locking the framed screen in an inoperative position at the anchored end of said bar.

3. The structure defined in claim 1 in which the framed screen is made up of a multiplicity of hingedly connected sections.

4. A structure of the kind described made up of a multiplicity of hingedly connected framed screen sections, one of which is substantially triangular and has an elongated passage through which the correspondingly formed deflector pane of an automobile window may be extended.

5. A structure of the kind described made up of a multiplicity of hingedly connected screenequipped frame sections having overlapping perforated lock flanges, and a rectangular lock frame corresponding substantially in outline to one of the screen sections and having lock hooks projectable through the perforations of said lock flanges, as and for the purpose described.

6. The structure defined in claim 5 in further combination with a supporting bar, and a head slidable on said bar and attached to the intermediate of said hingedly connected screen sections.

7. In a device of the kind described, a channelshaped supporting bar in the flanges of which at an end thereof an upper and a lower notch are provided, a head slidable in the channel of said bar and having a projecting web formed with a notch m its lower edge, a bifurcated supporting arm pivotally attached by one end to the upper portion of said web and having a projecting portion engageable with the lower notch of said supporting bar to hold said web engaged with said upper notch, a lock plunger slidably mounted on said arm and engageable with the notch in the lower edge of said web to lock said arm in the position just indicated, and a screen attached to the other end of said arm.

8. The structure defined in claim 7 in which said screen is made up of a multiplicity of hingconnection to said lock plunger, said lock frame, by a sliding movement, operative to lock said screen sections extended in a common plane, and a cam-acting lever pivotally connected to said plunger and having a cam action on said arm operative to move said plunger and lock frame to and from operative positions.

ALBERT VENDITTI.

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