US624418A

US624418A - Island

Info

Publication number: US624418A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-05-02
Anticipated expiration: 1916-05-02

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

GEORGE A. YOULDEN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 624,418, dated. May 2, 1899.

Application filed February 24, 1899. Serial Not 706,676. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. YOULDEN,'

curely exclude flies and other insects from the rooms; and a further object of the invention is to facilitate the operation and adjustment of the screen, as well as its ready removal; and to these ends the invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of the screen and the ways in which it slides, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a windowframe, showing myimproved screen and ways connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the windowframe, showing my improved screen in connection with the ways. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the windowframe, showing the swinging portion of the ways by means of which the insertion and removal of the screen is facilitated. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional View of the windowframe, showing the screen in place. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the window-sill and the lower end of the ways, showing a spring-latch by which the lower end of the ways is heldin place. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail view of the screen, showing one of the rollers by which the screen is guided and supported. Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view of Fig. 6.

Similar marks of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a a indicate the sides of the window-frame; b, the sill; c c, the grooved ways by which the screen is guided and supported; c, the hinged part of the ways; (1, a top and d a bottom rail connecting with the two ways on the sides of the window-frame; e, the frame of the screen, provided on its four sides with projecting flanges e e, overlapping the joint and part of the ways; f, the wirecloth or other material of the screen; g,

grooved rollers provided with the T-shaped rubber rings g and journaled on the screws 9 Two of these rollers are secured in recesses formed on each side of the frame a of the screen, as is indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The upper parts of the ways 6 and the rail (1 are firmly secured to the frame. The lower parts a c of the ways and the bottom rail cl are pivoted on screws 0 c screwed into the frame, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the lower ways, with the screen, may be swung into the inclined position shown in Fig. 3, when the screen may be removed or inserted. The rollers g, covered with the elastic rubber rings 9, form the guides for the screen. They run in the grooves of the ways 0, as shown in Fig.7. They are journaled on the screws g g*, which are secured in the frame of the screen in such positions that the rubber rings g on the-roller g are compressed sufficiently to prevent rattling and preferably so that the screen will be supported when in the raised position and maybe removed without the exertion of greatforce. r

To secure the swinging ways 0 c and the rail (1 in the vertical position, I place into the sill b one or two of the spring-latches, (shown in Fig. 6,) consisting of the metal tube h, the bolt h in screw-thread engagement with the semispherical button h supported on the coiled spring h and secured to the rail 01', the plate It, provided with arecess corresponding with the button h so that the coiled spring It will force the button 72. to enter the recess and lock the rail 01 and the swinging ways 0' in the required position, while a'suftlcient strain on the rail (1 willdraw the rail over the rounded end of the spring-pressed button.

A window fitted with my improved ways and screen presents a neat and finished appearance. The screen, when desired, maybe readily removed or placed in any desired position, and the overlapping flanges c e will cover and protect the joints, so as to prevent the entrance of insects. When used to cover the opening formed by the raising of the lower window-sash, the upper flange extends over part of the lower rail of the raised lower sash and over the lower rail (1, and when the upper sash is lowered the raised screen will cover part of the upper rail 01 and part of the upper rail of the lower sash. The screen may be locked by the use of an ordinarybolt 11, preferably sunk into the Wood of the frame.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with a window-frame, of the upper rail d, and the grooved ways 0 a secured to the window-frame, the rail d and the ways 0 c pivotally secured to the window-frame, and means for securing the rail d and the swinging ways 0' c in alinementwith the ways 0 0; whereby the screen may be raised and lowered, as described.

2. In a window-screen, the co1nbination with the upper rail 01 and the grooved ways 0 a secured to the window-frame, the swinging ways 0' c and the lower rail 01- pivotally secured to the window-frame, of the frame of the screen, flanges projecting from the four sides of the frame overlapping part of the ways and adapted to overlap part of the upper or lower rails, the rollers g g grooved peripherally and journaled in the frame, and the rubber rings g g; whereby the screen may be raised and lowered, as described.

3. In a window-screen, the combinationwith grooved, vertical ways secured tothe vertical sides of the window-frame, of the frame 6 of the screen, the projecting flanges e, the screws g 9 the grooved rollers g journaled on the screws, and the rubber rings g of T-shaped cross-section; whereby the screen may be moved and supported and the joints overlapped to prevent the entrance of insects, as described. 7

4. In a window-screen, the combination with the ways 0 0 and the rail (1 secured to the window-frame, the ways 0' c and the rail 01' pivotally secured to the window-frame by the screws 0 c of the screen-frame e, the projecting flanges e, the rollers g journaled in the frame, the rubber rings g g on the roller, the plate 71 on the rail 01, and the springpressed button h whereby the screen may be used to cover the upper or the lower part of the window and the screen may be readily removed, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

GEORGE A. YOULDEN.

Witnesses: I

J. A. MILLER, Jr., B. M. SIMMs.