US578571A

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Publication number: US578571A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-03-09
Anticipated expiration: 1914-03-09

Description

(No Model.) E. LARSON.

WINDOW SCREEN.

No. 578,571. Patented Mar. 9, 1891.

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EMANUEL LARSON, OF TRAVER, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF TWO-THIRDS TO ALEXANDER HILLSTROM, OF TULARE COUNTY, AND GEORGE X. WENDLING, OF HANFORD, GALI- FORNIA.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,571, dated March 9, 1897.

Application filed June 13, 1896. Serial No. 595,426. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.- and the cover-plate is fastened to the sill e by .Beitknown that I,EMANUELLARSON,aCitiscrews Z, the arrangement being such that zen of the United States, and a resident of with the roller and its case being made of Traver, in the county of Tulare and State of proper length they can be readily applied to California, have invented certain new and and removed from any window.

useful Improvements in VVindow-Screens, .of The roller carriesascreenm of cloth or netwhich the following is a specification. ting of any approved material and prepared My invention relates to window-screens for in any approved way, the free end of which taking the place of the sash when raised and is attached to a bar 12, which is secured to the 10 being displaced therefrom when the sash is lower sash-bar by thumb-screws 0 or other closed; and it consists of the improved screen approved means whereby it may be readily apparatus for detachable application to the applied and removed, said screen being a Window, as hereinafter described, reference little wider than the space between the upbeing made to the accompanying drawings, right bars g,and said bars being grooved in the I 5 in whichfaces fronting each other, as at p, for guide- Figure 1 is an inside elevation of part of a ways for the edges of the screen, wherein said window with my improved screen attachment edges will be confined to prevent ingress of inapplied and with the screen adjusted for use, sects, and spring-wire clamps u are provided a part of the roller-case and oneof the guides to clamp the edges of the screen and prevent 20 for the edges of the screen being sectioned. them from being forced out of the grooves Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on line 2 2, Fig. when the wind blows, said clamps consisting 1. Fig. 3 is adetail in sectional elevation on of suitably-bent spring-wires pivoted at s on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view the upright bars atthe upper ends of the slots of part of the roller-case. 25, through which the clamping parts u extend 2 5 I provide a spring-roller case consisting of inward suitably to press the screen against a transversely-curved cover-plate CL and end the back walls of the grooves and bind it plates 1), and fit within said case a springthereto to hold it against the effect of the roller 0 of the common form used for curtains, wind, the lower arms of the clamp being said roller being pivoted in the end plates b, pressed under and secured by hook-studs o. 0 and said case being adapted to be placed on The screen may be of cloth, netting, or a the window-sill E between the jamb-linings fabric made out of silk, ramie, woven glass, h, with the top and back edge f of the cover fine wire, or any approved material. If made not quite reaching to the sash-frame to leave of cloth, it should be oiled or varnished. free space for the screen and with the end In case the sash does notbalance and there 5 plates 1) bearing against the jamb-linings is need of any means of securing it in posiwhen not obstructed by sash-stops. In case tion when raised the bar n may be provided there are sash-stops to interfere the end plates with one or more latch-bolts, as w, and the may set back in the cover-plate, as b, Fig. 4, bars 9 may have holes m along them for the and have the inward extension 11 to lap on latch-bolts to engage in. The screen may 0 the sides of the stops and be fastened thereto be employed with good results without the by screws, as indicated at 11 guide-bars for the edges, and I will so arrange To each end of the cover is attached an upit when desired. right bar g, suitable to stand in the angles The bar at is preferably made with studs y, between the jamb -linings h and the lower projecting into the grooves 112, for supporting 5 sash i and extending upward a suitable disthe edges of the screen.

tance above the top of the lower sash when The holes a: may be in the bottom of the down in its normal position. These bars g groove, if preferred. are firmly attached to the cover-plate a and I clain1- the end plates b, and are secured at the up- The improved screen attachment for win- 50 per ends to the jamb-linings h by screws k, dows consisting of the roller-case adapted for I00 1 7 gles between the sash and the jamb-linings and being grooved for the edges of the screen,

and slotted for the clamps, and the clamps in the said slots of the bars and adapted for gripping the screen against the groove-walls, said screen having its edges extended into the grooves substantially as described.

Signed at Traver, in the county of Tulare and State of California, this 13th day of April,

EMANUEL LARSON.

Witnesses:

ALEX. HILLsTROM, J. D. PILLsBURY.