US234373A - Dwight s - Google Patents

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D. S. RICHARDSON.

4 Awning. No. 234,373. Patented Nov. 9, 1880.

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llNiTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DWIGHT S. RICHARDSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

AWNING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 234,373, dated November 9, 1880.

Application filed April 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT S. RICHARD- SON, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Awnings, of which the following is a full, clear, and accurate description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 shows the bars of the awning-sections.

My invention relates to awnings 5 and it consists in certain improvements in the details of their construction, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

I make my improvement as follows It consists of two or more separate pieces or sections of awning, A A A of cloth, canvas, or other suitable material, so arranged in relation to each other as to secure protection from the sun, at the same time allowing the air to enter freely and affordin g a view from the window. For ordinary windows I prefer to use three of these sections, but the number can be increased, if desired. These sections A A A are secured to frames consisting of a top bar, 0, and a lower bar, D. The said frames are movable, and slide, bymeans of eyes attached to the bars O, 0, O and D, on the guide-rods B, so that the sections of the awning can be hoisted up. The hoisting-tackle consists of a cord or rope, 11, which passes over pulleys secured at the top of the window-frame, and thence down to the top bar, 0 of the section A and from thence to the lower bar,D, of said section A The top bar, 0, of section A rests upon a bracket, 0, projecting from the side of the window-frame. The eyes of the lower bars of the sections A A may be elongated to allow the bars to be swung up, as well as slide on the guide-rods B, while the lower bar, D, of the section A is arranged so as to turn and swing on the bracket (No model.)

c. The rope 12 passes over a pulley at the top of the window, and thence down through rings and eyes in the awning-sections A A A and is used to swing up and pack the awning-sections out of the way after the two lower sections have been raised up to the upper section, A, by the rope. The top bars, O O of the sections A A are formed with crank-arms a a at their ends, the bar O having its crank-arms a resting on the bracket 6, and the bar 0 having its crank-arms a resting on the eye of the bar D of section A which construction admits of greater space between the sections than if the bars were not provided with crank-arms, as in the top section, thus permitting more light to enter the window and allowing a view through the spaces, while at the same time the spaces allow a free circulation of air and are shaded from the rays of the sun by the awnings above them.

I am aware that a sectional awning for windows composed of two or more independent sliding sections connected with each other and having intermediate spaces between them has heretofore been employed, and 1 therefore lay no claim, broadly, to such construction, my invention being confined to the details of construction as claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the sections A A A vertical rods B, angular eye-rod D, eye-rod G,

eye-rods O 0 having crank-arms a a, brackets e, and ropes 11 12, the whole arranged, constructed, and operated substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of March, 1880.

i DWIGHT S. RICHARDSON.

in presence of- LOUIS W. FRosr, CHARLES G. Con.

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