US447461A

US447461A - James w

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Publication number: US447461A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1908-03-03

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(No Model.)

J. W. CAMPBELL.

FOLDING SCREEN.

No. 447,461. Patented Mar. 3,1891.

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JAMES XV. )AMPBELL, OF GERMANTOW'N, ASSIGNOR TO FERGUSON BROTHERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,461, dated March 1891.

Application filed October 20, 1890. Serial No. 368,623. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. CAMPBELL, of Germantown, in the county of Columbia, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Folding Screens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a folding screen having two panels, which being pivoted to connecting-bars thereby form a third or central panel, one upright of each outside panel forming also an upright forthe center panel, and the object of my invention is first to lessen the cost of manufacture, and at the same time produce a screen as attractive in ap-- pearance as those now in the market, and, second, to make a screen that will niorereadily adapt itself to the inequalities of the flooring; and my invention further consists in certain novel features of construction to be hereinafter more fully described.

A practical embodiment of myinvention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure l is a view in perspective of a screen embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view, in section, of the means for pivoting the panels to the upper connecting-bar. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, in section, of the means for pivoting the panels to the lower connecting bar. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view in section, the section being taken on the'line age of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures. 7

A A represent the two outer panels of the screen, which are each made up of a framework consisting of two uprights a a and two lateral bars Z) Z). The uprights do are pivoted at either end 0 c to two connecting-bars O O. This may be conveniently done, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, by boring a hole 0 in the connecting-bar, into which one of the uprights a will fit as a pivot and securing the same by passing a screw c through the connecting-bar into the upright. The

space inclosed by the uprights a a and the connecting-bars G 0' now forms a third orcentral panel A each of the uprights a a serving the double purpose of acting as an upright for the center and one outside panel.

panel A rests on feet D. As shown more clearly in Fig. 3, these feet are attached to the pivot, or, in other words, the same screw 0'; which passes through the connecting-bar G into upright a also passes through the said feet D and secures them in position.

E designates slats to which the curtains are attached. Straps F, as shown clearlyin Fig. 4, connect the said slats E to the bars 0 C. These straps are rendered necessary in the central panel on account of the movement of the uprights a a, which prevents the slats being attached to them, as is usual; but, though I have shown them on the outside panels also, they need not, necessarily, be used, as the ordinary form of attachment would serve the purpose equally well.

A screen made as here described and illus trated will, on account of the manner of pivoting the panels together, very readily adjust itself to any inequality in the flooring, as a slight twist in the center panel would raise or lower the outer ones according to its direction. Such slight twist will not injure to any appreciable degree the structure, as a whole, since the pivotal connection between the cross-bar and side frames of the center panel will always admit of some play.

hat I claim as my invention is The combination, with two outer panels having rigid frames, each consisting of two uprights and cross-bars connecting the uprights, of an intermediate panel formed by a pair of cross-bars pivotally connected at their opposite ends with the adjacent uprights or the rigid frames of-the outer panels, substantially as set forth.

JAMES W. CAMPBELL.

WVitness'es:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY.