US759751A - Separable hinge for screens. - Google Patents

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PATENTED- MAY 10, 1904. 0. ROWLAND.

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PATENT OFFICE,

CALVIN ROWLAND, OF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROWLAND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DENVER, COLORADO, A CORPORATION OF COLORADO.

SEPARABLE HINGE FOR SCREENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,751, dated May 10, 1904:.

Applicatioufiled July 2, 1903. Serial No. 164,055. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, CALVINRQWLAND, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented a certain new, useful, and Improved Separable Hinge for Screens, (Case No. 2,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hangers or supports IQ for pivotally suspending half-size screens in windows. It is rapidly becoming the custom I to pivot screens at the top instead of arranging the same to slide in the window-frame. Various devices have been contrived for se- 5 curing half-size screens in this way; but most of these cost more to buy and apply than it costs to make and apply a'sliding screen or one which is secured by either permanent fastenings or hooks. For this reason the use of pivotal supports, though acknowledged to be better and to afford convenience, has been avoided by carpenters and contractors who supply and hang screens. This is illustrated in the case of the hanger that is shown and 5 described in my Letters Patent No. 702,886, of June 17, 1902, which hanger has gone into very general use, while the more expensive hinge and pivot supports have met with little sale or favor.

My patented hanger can be easily and quickly applied and enables the hanging of the screen from the inside of the window; but I find that it is desirable to provide a still cheaper hanger, and, further, a hanger which may be more quickly and securely fastened to the screen and one which will prevent the lifting of the screen when the hook or latch commonly used at the bottom of the screen is grasped to swing the screen outward.

With my patented hanger it is possible to to lift the screen vertically even while thescreen is in place against the blind-stops, and I have experienced some difficulty also with the fastening-s for the hanger, same occasionally becoming so loose as to be readily detached from the screen by a slight outward pressure against the screen. In either case the screen is apt to fall upon the ground outside the building with injury to itself or a passer-by.

The object of my invention is to provide a hanger or support for half-size screens, which support shall be composed of wire, shall be extremely cheap to manufacture, and shall be so formed as to grasp or clasp opposite sides of the screen-frame and also engage both the upper and lower sides of the hanger-pivot to prevent vertical movement of the screen while the latter is in normal position.

My invention consists generally in the screen hanger or support, comprisinga lower portion, which constitutes a clamp or clasp, and an upper portion, which constitutes a pivot-hook, and, further, my invention consists in a screen-hanger that is wholly composed of wire, being formed from a loop thereof to comprise a clasp, a gage, and a hook.

My invention also consists of various details of construction and in combinations of parts, all as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of a window frame and screen provided with a screenhanger embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my screen-hanger in place, together with a sectional view of the upper corner of the screen; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view thereof.

As shown in the drawings, 2 represents the window-frame; 3, the upper sash therein; 4, the lower sash; 5, the outer blind-stop, and 6 the screen-frame. Said screen-frame is of substantially the same height as the lower sash of the window, and the opening that would otherwise exist between the top of the screen and the mid-rail of the upper sash is closed by the strip 7, which is preferably attached to the top of the screen-frame. The screen stands or rests against the blind-stops 5 of the Window. Any suitable means (not shown) may be used for securing the bottom of the screen. The top of the screen is equipped with two supports or hangers like unto those shown in the drawings. These engage or hang from short pivot nails or screws 8, which are driven into the blind-stops 5 above the strip 7. The hanger is composed of a loop of wire, the lower ends of which loop comprise the outer and inner arms 9 and 10 of the claspportion of the device. One or the other of said arms is provided with a sharp right-angled point or spud 11 to be driven into the wooden frame. The other is provided with a curl or eye 12 to receive the fasteningnail 13. The inner arm 10 is extended above the top of the screen in asubstantially straight line and forms one-half of the shank 13 of the hooked portion of the hanger. The loop proper, 14:, is formed into the hook 15, and the shank 13 is provided with sharply-inclin ed upper portion 16. The loop or end of the hook is not only bent downward, but forward as well, and closely approaches the angular portion of the shank, only enough room being i left to admit the pivot-nail when the hook is placed thereon. The opposite side of the loop conforms to the extension of the part 10, the two sides lying in the same planes. Said opposite side, from which the clasp-arm 9 is formed, is wound or twisted (see 17) about the shank portion 13 and from thence crosses the top of the screen. The cross portion 18 serves as a gage, making it easy to accurately position the hanger on the screen-top. In attaching the hanger to the screen the clasp is pushed down over the top of the screen until the portion 18 rests upon the top, after which the spud 11 and the nail 13 are driven into the screen. I prefer to use one or more staples 19 upon the upper portion or the clasp for better securing the same.

It is obvious that my device may be made from two pieces of wire in place of one and,

furthermore, that it may be made from flat or square material. This hanger when attached to the screen cannot be easily removed therefrom,-and when the screen bearing same is placed upon the pivot-nail the screen cannot be lifted vertically, because of the engagement of the underlying ends of the hooks with the pivot-nail. It is desirable that the pivot nail shall be placed midway of the width of the blind-stops, and the bending of the shanks of the hook not only permits this arrangement of the pivots, but also provides convenient guide portions which render it easy to hang the screen.

It is obvious that various modifications of my invention will readily suggest themselves to one skilled in the art, and I therefore do not confine my invention to the specific construction herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A hanger or support for half-size screens, comprising the hooked upper portion and the two-part, lower portion or clasp, said hook and said clasp occupying the same plane, substantially as described.

2. A hanger or support for half-size screens, composed of a loop of wire, the upper portion of which comprises a hook, l5, and a bent shank, 13, an intermediate twisted portion and a lower portion comprising the arms, 9 and 10, provided with a spud and an eye, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 1st day of June, 1903,at Chicago, Illinois, in the presence of two witnesses.

CALVIN ROWLAND.

Witnesses:

C. G. HAW'LEY, JOHN H. GARNsnY.

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