US596288A

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Publication number: US596288A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-12-28
Anticipated expiration: 1914-12-28

Description

No Model.)

' 0. SMITH.

GUARD PORSHUTTER FASTENERS.

No. 596,288. Patented Dec. 28,1897.

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CHARLES SMITH, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND.

GUARD FOR SHUTTER=FASTENERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,288, datedDecember 28, 1897.

Application filed October 26,1897. Serial No. 656,465. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing atOentral Falls, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bird-Fenders for Window-Shutters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices which are intended for use in preventing sparrows and other birds from nesting within the space intervening between window-shutters or blinds and the face of the building.

Serious trouble is frequently occasioned by sparrows to the owners and occupants of houses which are provided'with outside hinged blinds or shutters. The birds find that the space intervening between the blind (which has been opened back against the face of the building) and the wall affords them a convenient place within which to build their nests, the latch or locking device attached to the blind, with its corresponding or engaging member attached to the wall of the building, affording a convenient support for the nest.

The present invention has for its object the provision of a simple and inexpensive device which may be placed directly above the catch or look upon the face of the building and which will serve to prevent the birds from alighting thereon.

To this end and to such others as the invention may pertain, the same consists in the peculiar construction of the bird-fender, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly described in the accompanyin g drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which drawings-.

Figure 1 is a perspective view in which my fender is shown in actual use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the device detached. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the fender.

Reference now being had to the details of r the drawings byletter, A designates the body 5 5 portion of the device, which is shaped like an ordinary wire nail, having one of its ends sharpened and its opposite end provided with an enlarged portion or head B. At a point intermediate of its ends the said body portion or nail A is provided with a collar or disk or suitable stop, as shown at C. Sleeved upon the portion of the body portion which is intermediate of the disk or stop 0 and the head 13 is a sleeve or tube D, which is adapted to rotate freely upon the body portion. Carried by the tubular portion or sleeve D is a disk E, the periphery of which disk is provided with horizontally-extending arms or projections F F, which arms in the present instance are shown as extending alternately upon opposite sides of the disk.

In use the body portion is attached to the face of the house or other building by driving with a hammer at a point adjacent to and directly over the catch or fastening for the blind or window-shutter. It will be seen that when the device is thus placed it will serve to effectually prevent birds from alighting upon the catch which is thus protected. Should a bird alight upon the arms or projections F, therotatable portion of the device will at once turn, and the bird will be prevented from perching.

While I have described and shown a device 8 5 which is specially designed and adapted for use in connection with blinds or window-shutters, still it will be at once evident that by altering the size or bymaking slight changes in the specific details of construction the device may be equally well adapted for use in other locations in which it may be considered either necessary or desirable to prevent pigeons or other birds from perching or from nest-building.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A device for preventing birds from perching on blind-shutter fasteners, consisting of the shouldered spindle A, the hollow cylinder mounted on said spindle, a disk E about the cylinder, and circular series of arms F disposed at right angles to said disk and pointing in opposite directions, combined as shown and described. IO

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES SMITH. \Vitnesses ALBERT L. SHERMAN, JOHN W. BATTYE.