US813642A - Rolling window-screen. - Google Patents

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Ne. 813342. PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

' H. B. & W H. GILLAED.

ROLLING WINDOW SCREEN. APPLIOATION FILED MAY 11, 1903/ of win parts that may be slid past each other, and

' tical section on the line a; as of Fig.1.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOMER E. GILLAND AND WILLIAM H. GILLAND, OF SAGINAW, MICHIGAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ROLLING wmoow-sosssn.

Patented. Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed May 11, 1903. Serial im tates.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HOMER E. GILLAND and WILLIAM H. GILLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rolling lVindow-Screens; and we do hereby 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.

This invention pertains to extensible roll ing window-screens, and relates more particularly to window-screens mounted on spring-rollers carried by the window-frame and having their upper ends fastened to the vertically-slidable window-sash, so that the screen unrolls as the sash is raised, thereby keeping the opening covered by the screen. To ada t such a screen to suit various widths dbws, it is made of two overlapping the roller is made extensible.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a part view of a window with our improvement attached. Fig.2 is a ver- Fi 3 is a perspective viewof the extensible rol er, its extensible case and bracket, and the extensible cover.

As is clearly shown in the drawings, the

extensible screen 1 is fixed at its upper end.

to the window-sash 2,.and'its lower end is mounted on a spring-actuated roller 3, preferahly of metal, to avoid warping.

f The screen is laterally extensible, as above noted, and the roller 3 is also extensible to.

suit windows of various widths. In order to rotect the rolled screen from rain, snow, and dust, we mount the roller 3 in a metal case 4, secured to the window-frame or to the sill S, as shown in Figs. 1 and2. The case is also extensible, and consists in two approxin'iately semicylindrical tube-sections 4* and fi one of which is provided on its edges with in- "Hardly-turned flan 4". The section 4 is of proper size to te escope within the section 4 am is held in place by engagement of its edges in the flanges 4. Ends 4*" and 4" are provided for the telescoping tubes, and these ends have slots, in one of which, 4, revolves the journal 3 of the roller 3, and in the other slot 4 fits the flattened non-rotatable s ear 3 of the, roller 3. These ends 4"" an 4" serve as roller-brackets.

As case 4 is normally hack of t lane of the screen to permit the latter to r0 1 and unroll vertically. One side of the case is open toward the sash, and the sash when closed" almost covers the opening but there still re-- mains between the sash and the upper'edge of the case a slot of sufiicient width to ermit the movement of the screen. Toma e the is shown in Fi 2, the upper edge of the I roller and screen perfectly weatherproof when the sash is closed, we provide the extensiblecover 5. This cover is secured to the.

sash 2 and projects outwardly to overla the case 4 when the window is closed. t is made in two telescoping sections 5 and 5 of the same generalconstruction as case 4.

It has a flange 6, which is screwed or other-' wisesecured-to the sash'2, and this flange may be made to serve the additional purpose. of a nailing-strip for securing the upper end f ofthe screen to the sash. When the sash is closed, the'lower edge of the sash forms the closure for the side of case 4, and the overlapping cover 5 closes down upon the case, rendering it perfectly weather roof and protecting the roller and screen. oth the case and its cover can be easily attached to a window and easily adjusted thereon.

While we have shown and described our improved device as fastened to the upper surface of the window-sill S, it might also be applied to the upper sash of the window by i being fastened to the up or part of the frame extensible sectional spring-actuated roller,

screen members mounted on each rollcr -section, the adjacent ed es of the-screen members adapted to over ap each other, a 300.- tional telescopic casing in which'the roller is journaled, the casing adapted to receive and rotect the screen members and provided with a slot through which the screen members pass; the sections of the casing each In testimony whereof We afii'x 01'1'1 Signaprovided w1th mtegral slotted ends, a curved tures 1n presence of two wltnesses.

r t y 0 HOMER E. GILLAND. flanges owned by the eover-sectlons and WUT 1AM H GU LAND servmg as a nalhng-smp whereby to smnuledges 01 the screen members to the sash of JAMES C. HANSON,

taneously secure the cover and the upper Witnesses:

a, Window. A. A. EASTERLY.

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