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US3153256A
US3153256A US294092A US29409263A US3153256A US 3153256 A US3153256 A US 3153256A US 294092 A US294092 A US 294092A US 29409263 A US29409263 A US 29409263A US 3153256 A US3153256 A US 3153256A
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  • This invention relates to a support for wire mesh curtain fire screens.
  • a primary object of the invention is to provide a prefabricated construction, sold as a package, and which may be readily manipulated and installed by the purchaser of the screen, without the assistance of special tools, or the services of a special installer.
  • a main rail which carries, on its bottom face, a medial bracket having a series or" dependent arms, two of which support the inner ends of the rods on which the screen mesh curtains are slidably suspended, while a third arm supports a turnbuckle for selectively adjusting oppositely movable channel members having masonry anchors at their outer ends. The inner ends of these members house the nuts engaging with the turnbuckle, while their outer ends are pinned to spaced tongues secured to the masonry anchors.
  • these tongues project through rectangular openings in the vertical leaf of angular chain-race members.
  • the web portions of the channel shaped masonry anchors have forked or slotted ends to engage with adjacent curtain rods.
  • These curtain rods are longitudinally fixed in vertical flange portions of a pair of chain guide brackets secured to the main rail, while the elongated channel members, carrying the masonry anchors for supporting the assembly in the fireplace, are capable of being moved inwardly and outwardly.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a support for the ornamental trim which masks the rods and channels.
  • This trim support in one form of the invention, has a portion of the main rail for receiving a snap-on trim section, and, in another form, the masonry anchors may be provided with vertically adjustable screws whose upper portions are slotted to receive and support a flange of the trim.
  • FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the fireplace screen supporting unit in its entirety.
  • FIGURE 2 is a detail fragmentary top plan of one end of the construction shown in FIG. 1, illustrating the channel shaped serrated masonry anchors projected in tion shown in FIGS. l3.
  • FIGURE 7 is a perspective view, illustrating a modified form of trim supports.
  • FIGURE 8 is a fragmentary top plan view of the trim support shown in FIG. 5, with the trim in dotted lines.
  • FIGURE 9 is an end elevation of the support shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the main support rail or lintel bar A is of angular cross section and includes a top horizontal wall 1 having a stiffener bead 2 medially thereof, while the front edge is bent or doubled upon itself to provide a reinforcing head for adequately supporting all of the operating mechanism for a screen S, as Well as the trim T.
  • the doubled-over portion 3 terminates in a vertical wall 4.
  • the trim T includes a lower channel 5 adapted to embrace the lower edge of the vertical wall 4 and a central masking portion provided with an upper resilient clamping flange 6 having a groove 7 to snap over the head 3 and secure the trim in place.
  • the medial portion of the bottom face of the wall 1 has the flat body portion 8 of a primary bracket B secured thereto.
  • This bracket has a pair of spaced downturned curtain rod receiving legs 9, 10, and a third turnbuckle-supporting leg 11.
  • the said legs 9 and 10 are olfset laterally to slidably support the inner ends of the parallel spaced curtain rods 12 and 13 in overlapping relation in the same horizontal plane.
  • Chain raceway members R and R are of angular formation and each includes a vertical flange 14 or 15, respectively.
  • the flange 14 has a vertical right angularly disposed wing 14a having chain grooves and is spot welded to the inner face of vertical wall 4 of the lintel bar.
  • the flange 15 has the horizontal wing 15a also provided with chain grooves and is spot welded to the bottom face of the horizontal wall 1.
  • both raceway members are fixed to the lintel bar A.
  • each rod is provided with a pin receiving hole a. near its outer end and is also provided inwardly thereof with a swedged portion b so that in assembling the rods in the flanges, each rod has its inner end first slid into the opening of its related leg 9 or 10, and then moved into the opening in the flange of its related angular chain race member until the said swedged portion engages one side of the opening and the hole is exposed at the other side to receive a pin 0.
  • the curtain rods 12 and 13 are held against longitudinal movement so that when the curtains (not shown) are opened and closed by pulling the conventional chains, the rods will not shift longitudinally.
  • FIG. 1 For example, that its opening 16 supports the plain unthreaded portion of a turnbuckle D.
  • This turnbuckle has a radial manipulating handle 17, and its opposite end portions are threaded as indicated respectively at 18 and 19. These threads engage in threaded nuts 18a and 19a so that when the handle 17 is manipulated, the nuts will be retracted or extended, according to the direction in which the handle 17 is rotated.
  • the clips 22 pass through related rectangular openings D in the vertical flanges of the chain races R and R.
  • each anchor 22, 23 is forked as indicated at x to engage a 6) related end of a curtai rod 12 or 13 as it projects through the flanges 114 or 15.
  • the masonry anchors 26 and 27 are connected to opposite ends of a channel member 255 by individual turnbuckle screws 3l31 operating in nuts 36:; and 31a.
  • the outer ends of the anchors are provided with vertically adjustable screws 32 and 33 which pass through the flanges of the channels where they are held by lock nuts 35, and the upper end of the screws are longitudinally slotted as indicated at 34.
  • the lintel assembly is not required. That is to say, the channel member 25 upon being rotated in one direction will force the masonry anchors 26 and 27 into the sides of the fireplace masonry, and upon being turned in the other direction 'will contract the channel members to dismount them.
  • a lintel bar of angular cross section providing a horizontal top wall and a vertical wall having a stifiener head at their junction
  • extendable and retractable members having nuts fast thereto and engaging said threaded portions
  • angular chain race members each including a vertical flange secured to said extendable and retractable members
  • extendable members are non-circular and the vertical flanges of the chain race members have nonscrews may be respect to the to receive the in dotted lines ends slidable in said 4 circular openings to receive a clip connected with said expandable members and also have other openings to receive the ends of said rods.
  • the masonry anchors are of channel shape and have a forked extend-ed web to engage said curtain rods. 4. In a fireplace screen support according to claim 1, wherein the channel shaped masonry anchors have the edges serrated to firmly grip the fireplace sides.
  • the lintel bar includes a front wall and a rearwardly extending top wall formed with an upstanding bead at their junction, 1
  • trim member including a vertical wall for masking the, front wall of the lintel bar and having an upturned flange for embracing the lower edge of said bar and also having a fiat upper resilient flange formed with a groove at the junction of said front wall and flange to interlock with said bead.
  • turnbuckle means for extending and contracting said masonry anchors
  • said means comprising a lintel bar of angular cross section providing a horizontal top wall and a vertical wall ha ing a stiliener head at their junction, screen supporting means secured to said lintel bar, and a trim member snap-fitted over said lintel bar and including a vertical wall for masking the front Wall of the lintel bar, said trim member having an upturned fiange for embracing the lower edge of said bar and also having a fiat upper resilient flange formed with a grove at the junction of said vertical wall and flange to interlock with said stiffener bead.

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Oct. 20, 1964 M. L. STARK E'i'AL 3,153,256
FIREPLACE SCREEN SUPPORT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 10, 1963 INVENTORS MARVIN 1;. STARK M. 1.. STARK ETAL 3,153,256
Oct. 20, 1964 FIREPLACE SCREEN SUPPORT 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 10, 1963 32' ra -a T u I I 35 y FIG 9 n" :2 SI 26 35 Y INVENTORS i l -MARV1N L. STARK ,FRANK c. LEWIS United States Patent 3,153,256 FIREPLACE SCREEN SUPPORT Marvin L. Stark and Frank C. Lewis, Louisville, Ky., assignors to Peerless Manufacturing Division, Dover (Iorporatiou, Louisville, Ky., a corporation of Kentucky Filed .l'uly 1t), 1963, Ser. No. 294,092 6 Claims. (Cl. 1687.4)
This invention relates to a support for wire mesh curtain fire screens.
A primary object of the invention is to provide a prefabricated construction, sold as a package, and which may be readily manipulated and installed by the purchaser of the screen, without the assistance of special tools, or the services of a special installer. In that connection, it is proposed to provide a main rail which carries, on its bottom face, a medial bracket having a series or" dependent arms, two of which support the inner ends of the rods on which the screen mesh curtains are slidably suspended, while a third arm supports a turnbuckle for selectively adjusting oppositely movable channel members having masonry anchors at their outer ends. The inner ends of these members house the nuts engaging with the turnbuckle, while their outer ends are pinned to spaced tongues secured to the masonry anchors. These tongues project through rectangular openings in the vertical leaf of angular chain-race members. To further assist in preventing any relative angular movement of the channel members under the influence of the turnbuckle, the web portions of the channel shaped masonry anchors have forked or slotted ends to engage with adjacent curtain rods. These curtain rods are longitudinally fixed in vertical flange portions of a pair of chain guide brackets secured to the main rail, while the elongated channel members, carrying the masonry anchors for supporting the assembly in the fireplace, are capable of being moved inwardly and outwardly.
A further object of the invention is to provide a support for the ornamental trim which masks the rods and channels. This trim support, in one form of the invention, has a portion of the main rail for receiving a snap-on trim section, and, in another form, the masonry anchors may be provided with vertically adjustable screws whose upper portions are slotted to receive and support a flange of the trim.
With the above and other objects in View which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.
A preferred and practical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the fireplace screen supporting unit in its entirety.
FIGURE 2 is a detail fragmentary top plan of one end of the construction shown in FIG. 1, illustrating the channel shaped serrated masonry anchors projected in tion shown in FIGS. l3.
FIGURE 7 is a perspective view, illustrating a modified form of trim supports.
FIGURE 8 is a fragmentary top plan view of the trim support shown in FIG. 5, with the trim in dotted lines.
Patented Get. 20, 1964 FIGURE 9 is an end elevation of the support shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
Similar reference characters designate the corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawing.
As will be seen from FIGURE 1, the main support rail or lintel bar A is of angular cross section and includes a top horizontal wall 1 having a stiffener bead 2 medially thereof, while the front edge is bent or doubled upon itself to provide a reinforcing head for adequately supporting all of the operating mechanism for a screen S, as Well as the trim T. The doubled-over portion 3 terminates in a vertical wall 4.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 6, it will readily be seen that the trim T includes a lower channel 5 adapted to embrace the lower edge of the vertical wall 4 and a central masking portion provided with an upper resilient clamping flange 6 having a groove 7 to snap over the head 3 and secure the trim in place.
The medial portion of the bottom face of the wall 1 has the flat body portion 8 of a primary bracket B secured thereto. This bracket has a pair of spaced downturned curtain rod receiving legs 9, 10, and a third turnbuckle-supporting leg 11. The said legs 9 and 10 are olfset laterally to slidably support the inner ends of the parallel spaced curtain rods 12 and 13 in overlapping relation in the same horizontal plane.
Chain raceway members R and R are of angular formation and each includes a vertical flange 14 or 15, respectively. The flange 14 has a vertical right angularly disposed wing 14a having chain grooves and is spot welded to the inner face of vertical wall 4 of the lintel bar. The flange 15 has the horizontal wing 15a also provided with chain grooves and is spot welded to the bottom face of the horizontal wall 1. Thus, both raceway members are fixed to the lintel bar A.
The outer ends of the rods 12 and 13 are fixed in openings 12a and 13a in the rearwardly extending flanges 14, 15, of the angular chain raceway members R and R. Each rod is provided with a pin receiving hole a. near its outer end and is also provided inwardly thereof with a swedged portion b so that in assembling the rods in the flanges, each rod has its inner end first slid into the opening of its related leg 9 or 10, and then moved into the opening in the flange of its related angular chain race member until the said swedged portion engages one side of the opening and the hole is exposed at the other side to receive a pin 0. In this way, the curtain rods 12 and 13 are held against longitudinal movement so that when the curtains (not shown) are opened and closed by pulling the conventional chains, the rods will not shift longitudinally.
Referring again to the bracket B and its medial depending third flange 11, it will be seen from FIG. 1, for example, that its opening 16 supports the plain unthreaded portion of a turnbuckle D. This turnbuckle has a radial manipulating handle 17, and its opposite end portions are threaded as indicated respectively at 18 and 19. These threads engage in threaded nuts 18a and 19a so that when the handle 17 is manipulated, the nuts will be retracted or extended, according to the direction in which the handle 17 is rotated.
The nuts 18a and 19:: are secured in non-circular members such as the channels 29 and 21, preferably by swedging, and the outer ends of the latter pass between the inwardly extending horizontal flanges of the related U-shaped clips 22 whose web portions are carried by the back of the channel shaped masonry anchors 25. The clips 22 pass through related rectangular openings D in the vertical flanges of the chain races R and R.
The laterally and outwardly extending web of each anchor 22, 23 is forked as indicated at x to engage a 6) related end of a curtai rod 12 or 13 as it projects through the flanges 114 or 15. With this feature, it is impossible for the masonry anchors 22 and 23 to turn or twist from their intended positions so that force of considerable magnitude can be applied to secure the screen support in place.
Referring to FIGS. 7-9, inclusive, it will be seen that the masonry anchors 26 and 27 are connected to opposite ends of a channel member 255 by individual turnbuckle screws 3l31 operating in nuts 36:; and 31a. The outer ends of the anchors are provided with vertically adjustable screws 32 and 33 which pass through the flanges of the channels where they are held by lock nuts 35, and the upper end of the screws are longitudinally slotted as indicated at 34.
As shown in ElGURES 8 and 9, these adjusted upwardly or downwardly with masonry engaging members as and 27 flange 36 of the trim member T, sh wn in FIGS. 8 and 9.
in this form of the invention, the lintel assembly is not required. That is to say, the channel member 25 upon being rotated in one direction will force the masonry anchors 26 and 27 into the sides of the fireplace masonry, and upon being turned in the other direction 'will contract the channel members to dismount them.
We claim:
1. In a fireplace screen support,
a lintel bar of angular cross section providing a horizontal top wall and a vertical wall having a stifiener head at their junction,
a bracket secured to the bottom face of the horizontal top wall,
a pair of downturned legs on said bracket and laterally :oltset in a horizontal plane with respect to each other and each having an opening,
curtain rods having their inner openings,
a third downturned leg otl'set laterally toward the rear of the support, and also having an opening, a turnbuckle rotatahly supported in the opening of said last mentioned leg having threaded portions,
extendable and retractable members having nuts fast thereto and engaging said threaded portions,
angular chain race members each including a vertical flange secured to said extendable and retractable members,
and masonry anchors connected to each or" said vertical flanges.
2. In a fireplace screen support according to claim 1,
wherein the extendable members are non-circular and the vertical flanges of the chain race members have nonscrews may be respect to the to receive the in dotted lines ends slidable in said 4 circular openings to receive a clip connected with said expandable members and also have other openings to receive the ends of said rods.
3. In a fireplace screen support according to claim 1, wherein the masonry anchors are of channel shape and have a forked extend-ed web to engage said curtain rods. 4. In a fireplace screen support according to claim 1, wherein the channel shaped masonry anchors have the edges serrated to firmly grip the fireplace sides.
5. In a fireplace screen support according to claim 1, wherein,
the lintel bar includes a front wall and a rearwardly extending top wall formed with an upstanding bead at their junction, 1
and a trim member including a vertical wall for masking the, front wall of the lintel bar and having an upturned flange for embracing the lower edge of said bar and also having a fiat upper resilient flange formed with a groove at the junction of said front wall and flange to interlock with said bead.
6. In a fireplace screen support,
a pair of outwardly facing channel shaped masonry anchors,
turnbuckle means for extending and contracting said masonry anchors,
means secured to said anchors and turnbuckle means for mashing and concealing said anchors and turnbuckle means from the room side of said support, said means comprising a lintel bar of angular cross section providing a horizontal top wall and a vertical wall ha ing a stiliener head at their junction, screen supporting means secured to said lintel bar, and a trim member snap-fitted over said lintel bar and including a vertical wall for masking the front Wall of the lintel bar, said trim member having an upturned fiange for embracing the lower edge of said bar and also having a fiat upper resilient flange formed with a grove at the junction of said vertical wall and flange to interlock with said stiffener bead.
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1. IN A FIREPLACE SCREEN SUPPORT, A LINTEL BAR OF ANGULAR CROSS SECTION PROVIDING A HORIZONTAL TOP WALL AND A VERTICAL WALL HAVING A STIFFENER BEAD AT THEIR JUNCTION, A BRACKET SECURED TO THE BOTTOM FACE OF THE HORIZONTAL TOP WALL, A PAIR OF DOWNTURNED LEGS ON SAID BRACKET AND LATERALLY OFFSET IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND EACH HAVING AN OPENING, CURTAIN RODS HAVING THEIR INNER ENDS SLIDABLE IN SAID OPENINGS, A THIRD DOWNTURNED LEG OFFSET LATERALLY TOWARD THE REAR OF THE SUPPORT, AND ALSO HAVING AN OPENING, A TURNBUCKLE ROTATABLY SUPPORTED IN THE OPENING OF SAID LAST MENTIONED LEG AND HAVING THREADED PORTIONS, EXTENDABLE AND RETRACTABLE MEMBERS HAVING NUTS FAST THERETO AND ENGAGING SAID THREADED PORTIONS, ANGULAR CHAIN RACE MEMBERS EACH INCLUDING A VERTICAL FLANGE SECURED TO SAID EXTENDABLE AND RETRACTABLE MEMBERS, AND MASONRY ANCHORS CONNECTED TO EACH OF SAID VERTICAL FLANGES.
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