US1799020A - Awning - Google Patents

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J. E. MOORE March 31, 1931.

AwNING Filed May 51. 1929 s sheets-sheet 1 ATTORNEY March 31, 1931.

J. B. MOORE 1,799,020

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Jau/N J0. BY am www ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 31, 1931 NETED JOHN BALTIC Moonn, or' ULETA, sinonimi AWITING Application filed May 31, 1929. Serial No. 367,556.

The object of this invention is to provide means for protecting a window and window opening from sun, and from rain and snow, and likewise serving when an all-metal conc struction is employed as an effective protection against fire.

A further object is to provid-e a main frame, special means for elevating the frame assinned to have suitable covering of fabric or le metal, means for retaining an adjusted position, and pivoted means adapted to depend from the outer edge, and rendering the awn ing more eective than it would otherwise be as a shield or as a protecting device.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of elements disclosed, it being understood that modifications may be made within the scope of the claims Without departing from the spirit of the in- Vention.

In the drawings forming part of this application Figure 1 is a view in front elevation, showing an awning of the type under consideration, and showing the operating means, the mounting means, and in dotted lines and full lines a window frame.

Figure 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a diagrammatic view on a reduced scale, showing the awning per se in perspective, and showing the arrangement of braces, pulleys, and winding means for the chains adapted to operate vertically slidable elements for controlling the awning.

Figure l is a detail in side elevationshowing a vertically slidable block, and the connections therefor and the mounting thereof.

Figure 5 is a transverse section thru a channel elementadapted to be secured to the win- Y dow frame and adapted to receive the vertically slidable element. 1

Figure 6 shows one of the pulleys and a fragmentary portion of a chain carried thereby. Y

Figure 7 shows one of the pulleys in edge elevation.

Figures 8 and 9 are detail views showing a double sprocket wheel on which the chains at the lower part of the window opening are positioned and by means of which they are controlled in the required relation for raising and lowering the awning by means of a crank applied to the axial element of the sprocket wheel.

Figure 10 is a detail View showing a retaining tool sprocket wheel.

A portion of a window frame is designated 10, and at the upper portion of the frame I 6o mount a plurality of brackets or the like 11, adapted to receive the end portions of a transverse rod or other element 12 passing thru the side elements 13 of the main frame of the awning,

Carried by the side elements of the main frame is a covering 14 of suitable material, depending upon the particular use to which the awning is to be applied. If protection against sun only is required, ordinary fabric such as that commonly used for the purpose, will be suiiicient. 1f fire protection is desired, light sheet metal, or other lire proof material is to be used.

Connected with the forward portion of the side members 13 are depending devices` 15 pivoted at 16 and adapted to receive a strip of fabric or lire proof material 17. This additional element serves an effective purpose in increasing the efciency of the protecting device, and its position is automatically determined in view of the connections illustrated in Figure 2.

It is desirable that the element 17 should not be of the type which is readily displaced by wind or the like, and l provide therefore a plurality of rods or bars 18 pivotally .connected to elements 15, at the point or points Y 19, the upper ends of the bars 18 being piv- Oted at 20 to stationary brackets 21 mounted 90 on a window frame.

` rllhe bars 22 are pivoted to the main frame of the awning at 23 and at 24 they are pivoted to the slidable devices illustrated in detail `in Figures 4 and .5, these elements or slidable 95 devices, designated 25, having the particular construction illustrated, and being adapted to not only slide vertically within the channels 26, but a gripping action results, so that an adjusted position of the awning, determined by the extent to which the chains are shifted, will be maintained.

A plurality of chains will be employed, one on each side of the window trame, and

one end of each chain is connected by means of securing device 23 with block Q5, and the other end is connected by means of securing device 29 with said block 25.

The channels 26 each include a web portion 26 thru which securing device 30 passes. The side walls of the channels are deflected toward each other, or converge near their outer portions, and the extreme edges are outwardly extended at 3l.

The grooved and flanged portions 32 of the block 25 engage the edge portions of the flanges orP the channels, and while there is free vertical movement, due to the lifting action provided by the chain, and a similar movement in a downward direction,-when the elements are at res* the weight of the awning frame, etc., will serve to cause a bindn ing action, so that adjustment may be maintained.

The chains are carried around a plurality of pulleys such as 36, and otner pulleys such as 37 positioned adjacent to the lower part of the window frame, and the chains then pass to the double sprocket wheel of l? igures 8 and 9, this wheel being designated 3S and having two series of teeth, these series being independently engaged by the chains, and the latter having tension applied thereto in the direction or directions apparent from an inspection of Figure 3. The axial element 39 of the wheel 38 is to be operated by means of a hand crank 4:0, and the latter is secured by means ot the retaining device 41 pivoted at 42 and operating thru the body or socket end 43 of the crank. Engagement of the inner end of the clement 4l is within notch 44 in the element 39.

1When a window screen is employed, it may be connected with the awning, and both screen and awning elevated at the same time, this arrangement being useful when the windows are to be cleaned, or at other times.

`What is claimed is l. An awning comprising a. main shielding element, rods pivoted to said shielding element, means hinging one end of the element 2. An awnino including a hinOed shield-` b D D ing element, fixed guide members having the sides thereof converging and the free edges disposed laterally to form guide iianges, rods pivoted to the shielding element, brackets pivoted to said rods and provided with iiared portions slidably received in the guide members, curved flanges on said brackets and receiving the guide flanges to cooperate with the extensions in slidably connecting the brackets to said guide members and adapted under the weight of the shielding element to effectively grip the guide members to support said shielding element in Various adjusted positions, and an operating means connected to said brackets to adjust the shielding element.

n testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

JOHN BALTIC MOORE.

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