US2515588A - Awning - Google Patents

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y 1950 T. w. BRADLEY 2,515,588

AWNING Filed July 26, 1945 ll l TWB railgy F ARE-4W TTURN Patented July 18, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 3 Claims.

This invention relates to metallic awnings and has for its primary purpose the provision of a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient structure having a plurality of sections capable of easy assembly and mounting by a single unskilled workman.

Metallic awnings are usually so heavy that they cannot well be lifted and held by a single person while being secured in place. When made at a factory as a single unit, their original cost in addition to the labor required for their delivery and installation is likely to make them prohibitively expensive. When they are not prefabricated, the workmen who install them usually require sheet metal workers tools for cutting, bending, soldering, and otherwise assembling the parts.

These considerations will prevent the average householder from attempting to construct and install a metal awning in spite of its advantages over o-wning of canvas or of wood.

In the present invention, a supporting framework is made in easily handled, relatively small sections which can be secured in place by screws, and upon this support, top and end sections may be set, one at a time, and held firmly in place by screws and twisted wire. All the sections are suificiently light in weight to be lifted, held in position, and mounted by a single workman using only the tools necessary to drive a screw.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown for purposes of illustration in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of an awning in place over a window; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of one side frame and a bracket; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same frame; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through a louvered panel on the plane IVIV of Fig. 1; Figs. 5 to 9, inclusive, are sections taken transversely of the louvered panel on the planes indicated by the lines V-V, VIVI, VIIVII, VIII-VIII, and IX-IX, of Fig. 4; Fig. is a transverse section of a cap panel on the plane of Fig. 1; Fig. 11 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the end of a rod in a socket, showing two means for holding them connected; and Fig. 12 is a fragmentary section showing a means for connecting the adjacent edges of a cap panel and a lower panel.

In Fig. 1, an awning is shown as mounted over the upper portion of a window of which the lower sash is seen at I. The awning preferably consists of an odd number of panels, three of the louvered panels 2 being shown as alternating between four cap panels 3. Each panel is secured at its upper end to a metal wall bracket set in alinement with the other brackets on the wall or frame above the window.

The left end wall bracket 4 seen in front elevation in Fig. 2 and in side elevation in Fig. 3, is provided with sockets 5 and 6 for rod-like members l and 8 of an end frame and it will be understood that the right end wall bracket 9 of which only the top is seen in Fig. 1, will be similar to the bracket 4 but having parts reversed. The intermediate'wall brackets ID for the panels 2 and the brackets II for the panels 3 are like the bracket 4 without the sockets, which are not needed. Beneath the bracket 4 is a lower bracket l2 with a socket I3 for the lower end of the member I and a socket M for the inner end of a. horizontal brace member l5. An outer corner bracket l6 has socket I! for the lower end of member 8, socket I8 for the outer end of member 55, and a lateral socket is for a cross rod or pipe 2! connecting the end frame formed by the members l, 8, and I5 with a similar frame at the right end indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1 at 2|.

With the wall brackets 4, 9, Ill and II secured in place as by screws, the left end panel 22, indicated in Fig. 3 with parts broken away, may be attached to the adjacent end frame 7, 8, and i5 as by wires 23 welded to the face of the panel and twisted around the frame members.

A can panel 3 is shown in section in Fig. 10 as a curved strip of sheet metal having each side edge formed with a flange 24 to cooperate with a similar flange 25 on an adjacent end panel 22 or a louvered panel 2. As shown best in Fig. 12, the ends of the flanges 2e and 25 are doubled on themselves to provide a thickened edge to be engaged within a tube 26 slid along lengthwise of the flanges, the slit in the tube being close enough to engage the thickened edges to prevent them from slipping out of the tube.

In Fig. 4, a panel 2 is shown as having a taperin; vertical flange 21, having a plurality of Iongitudinal slits stamped out to form louvers 28 open for the escape of heated air from the space beneath the awning while keeping out rain.

appearance to the awning. By providing panels of different standard widths, a set may be se-v lected to suit various widths of windows and" frames and give the proper spread.

As a means for securing the members], 8, 15,.

and IS in their sockets, Fig. 11 shows the socket 18 as having recesses formed by boringholes 34 through the walls of the socket and then providing-the outer end of the-holes with a screw 35 or a welded plug 36, and the. member 15 formed as a tube with a solid end piece 31- welded in the end of the tube and havingbored. holes 38 for sliding detents 39, thrust outward by spring do or elastic material 4|, into the holes 34. With thedetents pressed back into the holes 38, the end piece'31 can be slid into= thesocket-until the'detents are pushed outinto the recesses to lock the member in place: The screw 35 is for easy removal of the detent if desired, while the welding 36 gives a much more difiicult-fastening to" release.

Many variations in details of construction, size, and proportion of .parts may be'made without departure from the invention as claimed.

Iclaim:

1. An awning comprising a plurality of inclined panels, each panel having means at its upper end for attaching it to a wall, the panels being arranged in two series, an upper series of cap panels and a lower series of panels each having tapering flanges extending vertically along opposite edges to form sloping drainage channels diminishing in depth outwardly from the wall, and means for securing the upper edge of each tapering flange to the adjacent edge of a cap panel.

2. A structure as in claim 1 in which the vertical flanges have louvers formed therein for the escape of air from beneath the panels.

3. An awning including a panel having each side formed with a vertical tapering flange having a laterally extending upper edge portion, and a. cap panel adjacent to each flange and having an edge portion engaging the edge portion of the flange, and means. for securing the engaging edge portions together.

THOMAS WALTERS BRADLEY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS- Number Name Date 394,120 Knoblanch Dec. 4, 1888 1,901,976 Martin Mar. 21, 1933 1,917,365 Goertz et a1. July 11, 1933 2,030,029 Hadden et a1. Feb. 4, 1936 2,083,681 Baldwin June 15, 1937 2,234,760 Guarcello Mar. 11, 1941 2,256,941 Crawford Sept. 23, 1941

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