US853862A - Window-screen and the like. - Google Patents

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J. F. & L. F- BUGK. WINDOW SCREEN AND THE LIKE. 7

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1906.

WITNESSES: INVENTIORJ' faae ZTZuc/E W Z I v I ATTdRNEY PATENTED MAY 14, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JOSEPH F. BUCK AND LEO F. BUCK, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW-SCREEN AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed September 10, 1906. Serial No. 333,913.

To (all whom it may concern:

residing at (Jamdemcounty of Camden, and

State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in l'Vin- (low-Screens and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

'My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in screens for windows and the like, and has for its object to provide an exceedingly simple and effective device of this description while permitting the free passage of air and light will prevent the beatingof rain from the outside to the inside of'the building.

With these ends in View, this invention. consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter setforth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may under- I stand how tomake and use the same, we will describe its construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in Which Figure 1 is an elevation of a screen made in accordance with our improvement. Fig. 2, a section at the line ac-a: thereof, and Fig. 3, a perspective showing one of the wings bent from the hole from which it is cut.

in carrying out our invention as here embodied, we take a sheet of metal of the desired thickness and so stamp the same with suitable punchers and dies as to form the wings A, and those are bent outward to the proper angle to shed the rain from the outside,

and in practice we prefer that these Wings shall be stag ored, that is to. say, each wing in any row will be located on the dividing line of the wings in the row next beneath, after the manner that shingles are used in roofing. This will prevent the rain from driving in between the wings as will be readily understood.

In practice the openings in the sheet metal made by the partial cutting of the wings 5 therefrom may be of any size, and where the screen is intended to keep out insects, such as flies and mosquitos these openings would be small enough for this purpose.

Where there is any liability of rain beating in through the screen, the screen may be reversed in the window so as to bring the pro-.

jecting wings on the inside, and the holes therein may be of sufiicient size to permit the passage of the flies, and I have found by practice that when the screen is thus utilized any flies which may be in the room will pass therefrom by lighting upon the screen and crawling'upward under the wings or hoods and to the outside of the screen, but that'the y will not crawl downward from the outside into the, room.

The cost of manufacturing-a screen made in accordance with our improvement is much less than the cost of the ordinary wire screen, in that the sheet metal is chea er 'than the same weight of Wire, and also cm the fact that the screen may be manufactured by automatic machinery at less cost than the weave of wire into the form of a screen.-

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, is i 1. As a new article of manufacture, areticulated window screen com rising a 'metal sheet having a series of pe 'orations in staggered relation with ards over the perforations, the said guards being struck from the sheet metal informing the perforations; said guards being inclined to prevent rain from entering the perforations.

' 2. As a new article of manufacture, a reticulated window screen comprising a metal sheet provided with a series of perforations in staggered relationand a series of integral uards standing at an incline over theperforations to prevent rain from entering the perforations.

In testimony whereof, wehave hereunto I affixed our signatures in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. j j.

' JOSEPH F. BUCK. v LEO BUCK.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. BURDSALL, CHARLES H. HAYS.

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