US3550342A - Ornamental shutter and mounting therefor - Google Patents

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United States Patent O 3,550,342 ORNAMENTAL SHUTTER AND MOUNTING THEREFOR Donald A. South, 998 Tibbetts-Wicks Road, Girard, Ohio 44420 Filed May 5, 1969, Ser. No. 821,604 Int. Cl. E041; 1/38; E06]: 7/00 US. Cl. 52-509 4 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An ornamental metal shutter including an outwardly flanged frame and louvers extending between the vertical portions of the frame is provided with a mounting plate having inturned flanges on its sides and lower edge for slidably receiving the outturned flanges of the shutter frame so as to hold the same in desired ornamental position on a wall adjacent a window or door opening therein.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the invention This invention relates to ornamental shutters of the type normally employed to decorate a dwelling house window or door opening and which shutters are positioned adjacent the opening and secured directly to the building wall.

Description of the prior art Prior structures of this type have generally comprised regulation wooden shutters although sometimes metal shutters of the embossed design type have been used. Generally, they are simply attached directly to the Wall alongside the window or door opening by fasteners such as Wood screws and the like.

This invention eliminates the problem of securing desired alignment of the shutters with a door or window opening as the conventional fasteners positioned through the limited frame area of the shutters particularly in a masonry wall makes it difiicult to secure proper alignment. The present invention provides a mounting plate with a wide area for the fasteners and which mounting plate then receives the shutter in desired door and window opening alignment.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An ornamental shutter comprising a frame having louvers with the vertical edges of the frame having outturned flanges and a mounting plate having inturned holding flanges on its sides and a supporting flange on its bottom edge which upon being positioned on a wall will slidably receive and hold the shutter in desired position.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a front plian view of a portion of a shutter formed in accordance with this invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical section of the shutter on line 22 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a front plan view of a portion of a mounting plate for receiving and holding the shutter of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a top plan view on line 4-4 of FIG. 3.

FIG. 5 is a front plan view on a reduced scale showing the mounting plate with the ornamental shutter positioned therein.

FIG. 6 is a back plan view of the mounting plate and shutter seen in FIG. 5 of the drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The ornamental shutter and mounting therefor is seen in front plan view in FIG. 5 of the drawings wherein the shutter comprises a rectangullar frame 10 having an 3,550,342 Patented Dec. 29, 1970 ice outturned flange 11 on each of its vertical edges and wherein a plurality of transversely extending louvers 12 are provided to form a shutter having the appearance of shutters heretofore known in the art. Alternately an embossed metal sheet having the appearance of a shutter may be used. Either form of the shutter is provided with a mounting plate 19 which has inturned holding flanges 14 on its sides and a supporting flange 20 on its bottom edge.

By referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that enlarged cross-sectional details of the shutter have been illustrated and that the frame 10 comprises sections of a rolled metal shape defining a channel 15. The outermost edge of the channel is inturned as at 16 and then outturned to form the flange 11 heretofore referred to. The flange 11 is not formed on the horizontal sections forming the upper and lower portions of the frame 10. Sections of the frame 10 are mitered and secured to one another by corner fasteners (not shown) in a manner known in the art so that a rectangular frame is formed with only the vertical sections of the frame 10 having the outturned flanges 11. The inner opposed surfaces of the vertical sections of the frame 10 are punched to form receiving slots (not shown) for the reception of the end portions of a plurality of louvers 12.

By referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, it will be seen that each of the louvers 12 is a section of strip metal having its longitudinal edges rolled to form semitubular configurations 18 which lend rigidity to the louver 12. It will also be seen that the inturned flange of the channel 10 which has been given the reference numeral 13 is positioned so as to underlie the tubular edge configuration 18 of the uppermost louver 12.

It will be seen by referring to FIG. 3 of the drawings that a mounting plate 19 has been disclosed which is of an overall width slightly greater than the overall width of the shutter frame 10 including the flanges 11 thereof and that the mounting plate 19 has inturned holding flanges 14 on its sides and a supporting flange 20 on its lower edge. It will be seen that the inturned holding flanges 14 are capable of slidably receiving the flanges 11 of the frame 10 of the ornamental shutter so that the shutter is firmly held by the mounting plate 19 while it rests on the flange 20 thereof. In order that the mounting plate 19 can be attached to a building wall adjacent the window or a door opening, apertures 21 are provided so that fasteners can be positioned therethrough and the plate 19 secured in desired position whereupon the shutter and specifically the flanges 11 thereof are simply slid into position thus providing a simple and easy mounting.

It will be observed by those skilled in the art that the shutter can be removed at any time as for painting or cleaning and again repositioned in the mounting plate 19. It will be obvious that the mounting plate 19 can be of any height including that matching the shutter.

FIG. 4 shows a top plan view of the mounting plate 19 with the inturned flanges 14 and broken lines illustrate fasteners 22 positioned through the apertures 21 heretofore described.

In FIG. 6 of the drawings a back elevation of the shutter and mounting plate may be seen and it will be observed that the mounting plate 19 is sufficiently large to engage a substantial area of the shutter and specifically the flanges 11 thereof so that it is securely and adequately held on the building on which the mounting plate 19 is mounted.

Although but one embodiment of the present invention has been illustrated and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention, and having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. An ornamental shutter and mounting means therefor, said shutter having flanges on its vertical edges and said mounting plate having inturned holding flanges on its sides and a supporting flange on its lower edge, said mounting plate and flanges defining a snug pocket for the reception of the flanges of said shutter so as to hold said shutter against said mounting plate.

2. The shutter and mounting plate therefor of claim 1 and wherein said shutter has a frame comprising a rolled metal channel shape consisting of a base portion with spaced longitudinally extending right angular flanges and wherein a longitudinal section of one of the longitudinally extending flanges is outturned to form said holding flanges.

3. The shutter and mounting means therefor set forth in claim 1 and wherein the mounting plate comprises a rigid metal sheet and the inturned holding flanges on the sides thereof are spaced with respect to the metal sheet a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the material thereof.

4. The shutter and mounting plate of claim 1 and References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,921,752 8/1933 Hess 248--488 2,891,757 6/1959 Lang 248224 2,897,928 8/1959 Selig 248224 3,165,287 1/1965 Parsons 248224 JOHN E. MURTAGH, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R.

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