US2333219A - Greenhouse eave bracket - Google Patents

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Nov. 2, 1943. K. w. WEEBER GREENHOUSE EAVE BRACKET Filed Dec. 28, 1942 FIG. 2.

K ARL WILLIA M WEEBER Patented Nov. 2, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GREENHOUSE EAVE BRACKET Karl William Weeber, Minneapolis, Minn.

Application December 28, 1942, Serial No. 470,420

7 Claims.

This invention relates to an eave bracket for greenhouses and buildings of like character where it is desired to provide a building construction with the eaves made of arcuated glass so as to emit more light into the greenhouse.

A feature resides in providing an iron bracket having an arcuate formation so that the eave glass may be similarly formed and adapted to rest on arcuate shoulders. The bracket has a projecting arcuate rib which conforms with the rib formed on the wooden roof and side bars of the building and when the wood and side bars are in position connected to the bracket, the ribs of the rails join the rib of the bracket tangentially.

It is also a feature to provide an iron or similarly formed eave bracket for greenhouses and buildings of like character, wherein sockets are formed in the ends of the same for receiving the wooden roof rails and side rails and to provide means for securing the rails to the bracket.

It is a feature to provide the eave bracket formed of a single piece of iron or steel or similar material of non-metallic material which is adapted to be adjustably secured to the purline rail which may be in the form of a pipe so that the eave brackets may be spaced the desired distance along the purline pipe rail. The eave brackets are adapted to be spaced virtually the width of the glass apart along the purline rail. I provide a set screw threaded in a flange formed on the bracket which extends over the pipe purline rail. This set screw secures the eave bracket in adjusted position.

It is a further feature to provide an eave bracket which is formed with water gutters on either side of the same which are positioned below the shoulders which support the edges of the cave glass. By means of the water gutters any moisture condensation which collects on the wooden roof rails or on the inside of the glass may readily drain down into the water gutters formed in the bracket and be carried off away from the wooden rails and the glass. Thus I provide water drains on either side of the bracket which are positioned and extend under the shoulders which support the glass.

The glass is supported extending over the eave bracket resting on putty so as to cushion the edges of the glass and seal the joint between the glass and the cave bracket.

The features of my eave bracket will be more fully and clearly hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of my eave brackets.

Fig. 2 is a side sectional view extending longi tudinally through the bracket.

Fig. 3 is a perspective detail showing the manner of use of my bracket.

Fig. 4 is a side elevational section through the glass and purline rail of the building, using my eave bracket.

The eave bracket A is formed of a single-piece metal casting. The bracket A may also be formed of non-metallic material, such as plastic or other material which is suitably adapted to provide an eave bracket for a building. The bracket A is formed with an arcuated hollow body portion III from which projects the arcuated rib II. The rib II conforms with the ribs I2 formed on the wooden roof rail I3 and the wooden side rail I4.

The ends of the bracket A are formed with socket portions I5 and I6 which are adapted to receive the ends of the wooden rails I3 and I4, respectively, and by means of the screws II wooden rails I3 and I4 may be secured to the bracket A.

On either side of the arcuate rib I I the bracket A is formed with arcuated shoulders I8 which are adapted to support the edges of the arcuately formed eave glass I9. The edges of the glass I9, as well as the roof and side wall glass plates 20 are adapted to be cushioned and sealed by putty or any suitable sealing means along the ribs II and I2 to give a tight joint as well as a cushioning means for the edges of the glass.

Further, I provide nails 2| for holding the glass in place, which nails are driveninto the wooden ribs I2 and which act to hold the plates of glass in proper overlapped relation as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.

The bracket A is formed with a concave sur face 22 and a depending flange 23 which fits over the pipe purline rail 24. By means of the set screw 25 which is threaded into the flange 23, the bracket A is adapted to be secured in adjusted position on the purline rail 24.

Directly beneath the shoulders I8 for the edges of the glass I provide arcuately extending gutters 26 on either side of the bracket A. These gutters 26 act to drain and collect the condensation of any moisture which forms on the inside of the glass panes I9 and 20 and on the rails I3 and I4, and thus the moisture is carried away from the bracket A and the joints between the rails I3 and I 4. This tends to keep the joints with the bracket A dry, and helps to overcome the rotting of wooden rails where they join the eave bracket A.

It will be apparent that my eave bracket A is of a simple, one-piece construction forming a neat appearing eave bracket for the roof and side rails and providing a construction for a building such as a greenhouse, where the eaves may be round instead of angular, and thus providing a smooth joint at the eaves as well as providing a building construction Where all the light possible may pass through the eaves of the building. This construction is importantina greenhouse asit overcomes shadows in the greenhouse from the caves and with my bracket a simplified construction is provided. The bracket A may be adjusted into thedesired position and purline rails may beziiormed.

of pipe, thereby providing a strong and attractively formed building construct-ion-- Which= 1s"pa-r-- ticularly adapted to greenhouses I claim:

1. A greenhouse eave bracket comprising an iron. body, a socket forreceiving. the wooden. roof bar, a socket for receiving the wooden side-bar, means for securingsaid-roof andside bars-tosaid bracket, shoulders oneach side of saidbraoketnnwhich the edge ofthe. eave-glass. is adapted. to rest, water grooves formed. in the. sides ofsaid. bracket extending. along. underv said. shoulder grooves for. draining the condensate which collects on the inside of the eave glass, and a.cla1np.- ing means for attaching. said bracket. to, thepurline pipe, at the. eaves..

2.. Agreenhouse. eavebracket including. an. iron body having an.arcuatediormatioir, a socket at each end of said bracketlfor. receivingthe-wooden roof and side bars, means. for securing-said. roof and-side; bars tov said.br.acket,.shoulders on each;

side oisaid bracket. onwhich-theedgeoi. the are cuated eave glass isadapted to rest,.a-,centra=l arcuated projecting outer. rib conforming withthe projectingrib of the roof and side bars and ex-- tending in line therewith, condensate water grooves extending along. under said shouldersformed insaid bracket, and meansaengagingiover the purline bar to which said bracket is attached.

3-. A greenhouseeave bracket includinggam arcuated;body-portion,,socket means formedtin the ends. of. said bracket: for receiving the wooden roof. and side bars-theends of; which aresecuredtosaid bracket, arcuated shoulders oneither-side of said bracket for receiving, the. edge of the: arcuated eave glass, and means) forsecuring said.

bracket to the purline pipe means whereby a series of said brackets may be spaced along the purline pipe to support the roof and side bars and the edges of the arcuated eaves glass of the greenhouse.

4. An eave bracket for greenhouses having an arcuated formation, arcuated shoulders formed on either side of said bracket for supporting the edges of an arcuated eaves glass, means for securing saichbracket to the purllne. ban pipe means, andmeans for supporting wooden roof and side bar rails with their outer edge tangential to the a-rcuated outer surface of said eave bracket.

5i Am: eave.- bracket for greenhouses and the like, adapted to provide a building construction wheremthe eavesof the building may be formed saidbracketadapted tar-conform. with the sham] ders on either sideoftherooI and.side.rail..,bars which, are ad'apted...t'o. support the. edges-pf. the greenhouse. glass, and. means. for. holding. the greenhouse glass. inplace .witbthe adjoining-edges thereof 'overlapping' to form a water drain surface over. the outside. oi. the. glass.

'7; An. eave. bracketfor greenhouses and. the like, having, an arcnated. formation, sockets: formediinthe end..of. said bracket.or receiving the wood'emrnoi and. sides rails. 05. the building; means: for securing the. sidemailatosaid. bracket, a pipe purlinebar for. supporting said. braclmt, means ad'j'ustahl'y securing, saidmracket-td said pipe purline, actuated eave.- gi'ass, means: forrsecuring. said. arcuatedeaye glass. with. the: edges restingon. shoulders formed or bracket; and Water gutters. formedi inthe sides of. said bracket.

' b'eneathsaid; glass. receivinashoulders-.adapted.to

a glass.

KARL WEEBEB;

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