US744953A - Adjustable rolling window-screen. - Google Patents

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No. 744,953. PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

J. C. BOWE. ADJUSTABLE ROLLING WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19. 1903.

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7y I? 1L Patented November 24, 1903.

PATENT Tricia.

JAMES C. BOl/VE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

ADJUSTABLE ROLLIN G WINDOW=SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,953, dated November 24, 1903.

' Application filed June 19,1908. Serial No. 162,152. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES C. BOWE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Rolling Window- Screens; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to rolling windowscreens in which the rollers are mounted at the bottoms and tops of the window-casings, the rollers having springs therein and the screens being attached to the rollers and having their ends detachably connected to the adjacent sashes; and the invention has particular reference to improvements in the brackets for supporting the rollers, to guards for the openings near the screens, to guides for the screens, and to the bars for the free ends of the screens.

The objects of the invention are to provide improved and inexpensive rolling screens and mountings therefor which may be adapted to be applied to various sizes of windows and frames and which will be durable and economical in use; These and other objects are attained in the invention illustrated'in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents an elevation of the inner side of a window and its casing to which my improvements are applied; Fig. 2, an elevatio'n of the outer side of the same, the sashes being partly drawn from their normal positions, showing the unrolled screens connected thereto; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse sectional view on the line X X in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a fragmentary horizontal sectional view on the line Y Y in Fig. 1 looking downwardly; Fig. 5,a fragmentary horizontalsectional view 011 theline Z Z in Fig. 1 looking upwardly; Fig. 6, a fragmentary transverse sectional view showing the main parts illustratedin the upper portion of Fig. 3 on an enlarged scale; Fig. 7 ,a fragmentary transverse sectional view showing the main parts illustrated in the lower portion of Fig. 3 on an enlarged scale;

- Fig. 8, a perspective view of one of the upper roller-brackets; Fig. 9, a perspective view of one of the lower roller-brackets; Fig. 10, a fragmentary perspective View showing one of the screen end bars partially formed, as when attaching the screen thereto; Fig. 11, a fragmentary perspective View of one of the side guides for the screens; Fig. 12, a fragmentary detail View showing an end of one of the end bars attached to a screen; Fig. 13, a fragmentary front elevation of a screen .and its end bar having the combined pull and catch attached thereto, and Fig. 14 is a fragmentary perspective view of one of the guards for the screens.

Similar reference characters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts or elements.

In. the drawings, referring to the reference characters thereon, 0t designates the windowsill, b the sill-facing, c the top of the frame, 61 and e the sides of the frame, ff the inner slide-strips, g g the middle slide-strips be tween the two sashes, h and i the facing-strips at the top of the frame, j the lower sash, and 7c the upper sash, all of ordinary construction for illustration of the practical application of the invention.

The rollers A and B may be variously constructed in detail with inclosed windingspring and are made of wood, so that one end of a long roller may be readily sawed 0d in fitting theroller to a window-frame. One roller is mounted immediately above the facingb and the other below the frame-top 0, both suitably close to the innersides of the sashes when they are closed. Suitable screens 0 and D, of wire or other substance, are attached to has a suitable socket Z or Z to receive the end of the roller-shaft. The brackets are adapted to be set upon the facing b against the strips f f, with the guards F flush with the rear edges of the strips, and are to be secured by means of studs p and screws q, the brackets each having a notch m in the lower edge thereof to receive the stud which is to be driven into the strip and having also a horizontal slot in the upper portion thereof through which the screw can be insertedinto the strip, and as it may be difficult to set the screw at the exact point desired the slot will permit adjustment of the bracket after the screw may have been set in position.

A guard G is provided to be placed upon the rear part of the facing b, extending nearly across the window-opening or from one guard F to the other and preferably having offsets r at their ends standing against those guards.

The guard G has a base H extending at a right angle, in which areslots s to receive fastening-nails, the slots permitting adjustments of the guards after the nails may have been set in position on the facing. The set of guards F and Gare of suitable height to prevent dust that may collect on the window-sill from being drawn by the drafts into the building, and they also prevent the end of the screen from falling under the sash when detached therefrom. They also prevent insects from crawling under the roller.

The roller-brackets I I for supporting the upper screen-roller B are also of thin-platemetal form of sufficient length to extend from the front edge of the strips ff to the farther edge of the strips g g, and each bracket is provided with a guard J similar to the guard F and has a suitable socket t to receive the end of the roller-shaft. In the end to which the guard J is attached is a slot u to receive a stud 3 that is attached to the strip g or g, and the guard J also has a slot 12 to clear the end of the stud. At the opposite end portion of the bracket is a slot '10 to receive a securing-screw 00, that is attached to the strip f forming a ledge, against which the screen D may hear when drawn out, thus closing the opening above the roller B.

The guards G G are composed of thin metal, as tin-plate and may be made sufficiently long for the wider windows and be readily shortened for the narrower ones, and they may overlap the stiffer guards F, so as to be reinforced and prevented from being accidentally bent over in the ways of the sashes, and being very thin it may not be always preferred to form the offsets r at their ends.

The end bars K are composed of sheet metal, so that they may be readily shortened to suit the sizes of frames, and the screens may also be readily trimmed to suit, as will be obvious,without binding or hemming their edges. The bars are first partially formed to shape somewhat as in Fig. 10, there being a flat front 1 and a turnedunder edge portion or lip 2 and a flat rear lip 3, adapted to be flattened against the lip 2, the end of the screen being doubled over and placed between the front 1 and the lip 2 and extending out between the lips 2 and 3. The rounded portion 7 at the bend of the lip2 prevents the bar from cutting into the screen when in use, and the edge of the lip 3 is turned under to form a rounded portion 8, also to prevent injury to the screen. The combined pull and catch L is soldered or otherwise secured to the lip 3 of the bar, and it has an aperture 4 therein to receive the stud 5, that is attached to the sash, the head of the stud preventing the catch from slipping off the stud accidentally.

The side guides M M M M are all quite similar in form, a pair of right-and-left forms for the lower screen being suitable when inverted for the upper screen. Each guide has abase N extending at a right angle thereto, in which-are a suitable number of slots 6 to receive securing-nails, so'as to permit of lateral adjustments, and the slots are broader than the diameters of the nails, so that slight longitudinal adjustments may be made after driving two of the nails in their positions. Each guide has a curved end 0 projecting beyond the base N. The guides are secured against the strips ff and g g and guide the sides of the screens and also close the openings at the sides of the screens, the edges of which maybe unfinished. When in position, the ends 0 extend nearly to the screen-rollers, partially overlapping the roller-brackets.

It will be seen that one may take a complete outfit, as described above, to a building, where itv may be quickly fitted to the windows without the expense incident to a special trip to first take measurements for the purpose of having screens and attachments made to order, as has heretofore been a common practice.

In practical use the ends of the screens may be connected detachably to the sashes by means of the catches L and studs 5, so that when the sashes are drawn open the screens will follow them out from their rollers and close the window-openings, the screens being automatically wound on their rollers when closing the windows. WVhen the sashes are in open positions, the screens and the guards and guides will effectually close the openings left in the frames, as pointed out in the above description in detail.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. An adjustable rolling window-screen comprising a pair of roller-brackets having each a notch in the lower edge thereof and a horizontal slot in the upper bod y portion thereof, and having also a guard at one edge thereof, a horizontal guard extending between the guards of the brackets so as to effect a continuation of the same, a roller mounted in the brackets, and a screen mounted on the roller, substantially as set forth,

2. An adjustablerollingwindow-screen comprising a pair of roller-brackets having each a guard attached thereto and extendingtherefrom at a right angle thereto, the bracket having also a notch in the lower edge thereof and a horizontal slot in the upper body portion thereof, and having also a socket to receive the roller-shaft, a horizontal guard extending between the guards of the brackets, a roller mounted in the brackets, and a screen mounted on the roller, substantially as set forth.

3. Anadjustablerollingwindow-screencomprising a pair of roller-brackets having each a guard attached thereto, a horizontal guard extending between the guards of the brackets and having a base provided with transverse slots, aroller mounted in the brackets, and ascreen mounted on the roller,.substantially as set forth.

a. An adj ustable rolli ng wi ndow-screen COlIi' prising a pair of roller-brackets having each a guard attached thereto at one end thereof and provided with a slot in the end having the guard, the slot also extending into the guard, the bracket also having a socket to receive the roller-shaft and having also a horizontal slot in the end portion thereof beyond the socket or opposite to the end having the guard, a horizontal guard extending between the guards of the brackets, a roller mounted in the brackets, and a screen mounted on the roller, substantially as set forth.

5. An adjustable rolling window-screen comprising roller brackets having guards attached thereto, rollers mounted in the brackets, screens mounted on the rollers, a horizontal guard extending between each two guards of the brackets, and guides for the sides of the screens having each a curved end portion extending beyond the base portion thereof partially across the face of a rollerbracket toward the roller therein, substantially as set forth.

6. In a rolling screen, the combination of the front slide-strips, the sill-facing, the lower sash, the studs projecting from the strips above the sill-facing, the brackets each having the notch in the lower edge thereof einbracing one of said studs and also having the guard attached thereto adjacent to thesashway, the screws engaging the upper portion of said brackets and also said strips, the roller mounted in said brackets, and the screen mounted on said roller, substantially as set forth.

7. In a rolling screen, the combination of the front slide-strips, the lower sash, the middle slide-strips, the upper sash, the upper roller-brackets having each the guard attached thereto and also having the end slot therein extending into the guard and having also the screw-slot in the opposite end portion thereof, the studs projecting from said middle strips into said end slots, the screws projecting from said front strips through said slots in the opposite ends of the brackets, said brackets extending across the slideway of the lower sash to the upper sash and across the middle strip and having the guards thereof adjacent to the slideways of the upper sash, the roller mounted in said brackets, and the screen mounted on said roller, substantially as set forth.

8. In a rolling window-screen, the combination of a pair of roller-brackets having guards attached thereto, a roller mounted in the brackets, a screen mounted on the roller, a horizontal guard extending between the guards of the brackets, guides for the sides of the screen having each a curved end portion extending beyond the base portion thereof partially across the face of a roller-bracket toward the roller therein, and an end bar attached to the screen and resting when not in use between the guards and the curved ends.

9. In a rolling window-screen, the combination of the front slide-strips, the sill-facing, the sash, the horizontal guard attached to the sill-facing, the brackets attached to the slidestrips, the roller mounted in the brackets, the guides attached to the slide-strips and having the curved ends extending beyond the base portions thereof partially across the faces of the roller-brackets toward the roller, the stud attached to the sash, the finger-hold connected to said stud, the end bar attached to said finger-hold at the rear thereof and also attached to said screen and guided by said horizontal guard and said curved ends, said screen being turned over in said bar in the opposite direction from the rear thereof to which said finger-hold is attached, and said bar having a lip turned over the edge of said screen.

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

JAMES C. BOVVE.

Witnesses:

WM. H. PAYNE, E. 'l. SILvIUs.

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