US 12,460,417 B2 · Adjustable glass windscreen system

Abstract

An adjustable glass windscreen system including an elongate shoe secured atop a supporting surface with inner and outer vertical shoe walls journaled into a baseplate to define a track. A glass adjustment block is seated within the track of the shoe, likewise a three-walled open-top framing member defining a track. A glass panel is seated in the glass adjustment block. The width of the adjustment block is less than the track of the shoe to allow lateral adjustment. Buffer pads line the inside top edges of the opposing inner and outer shoe walls. Adjustment bolts are threaded through the inner and outer shoe walls and penetrate the bottom base of the glass adjustment block for back-and-forth adjustment thereof, and hence the glass panel seated therein. This cantilevers the glass panel about the buffer pads and amplifies the adjustment upward to the upper edge of the glass panel.

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Dependent claims

An adjustable frameless glass windscreen system for supporting a glass panel, comprising:

an adjustable shoe including inner and outer parallel-spaced shoe walls joined by a baseplate and defining an interior track;
a glass adjustment block carried within the interior track of the adjustable shoe between the inner and outer shoe walls and atop said baseplate, said glass adjustment block comprising an elongate member with inner and outer parallel-spaced walls separated by a base and defining an interior track for seating said glass panel;
a plurality of adjustment pins all inserted through both inner and outer shoe walls and threadably engaged through the base of the adjustment block such that clockwise and counterclockwise turning of the plurality of adjustment pins will shift the adjustment block laterally back and forth between the inner and outer shoe walls along threads on the adjustment pins, wherein said plurality of adjustment pins each comprise a bolt inserted through both inner and outer shoe walls and engaged through the base of the adjustment block, and a nut threaded onto said bolt.

An adjustable glass windscreen system, comprising:

an elongate shoe secured atop a supporting surface, the shoe comprising inner and outer shoe walls parallely-spaced from each other and journaled into a baseplate to define a track;
a glass adjustment block carried within the track of the shoe, the glass adjustment block comprising an open-top framing member defining an interior track, a width of the glass adjustment block being less than the spacing between opposing inner and outer shoe walls;
a framing buffer seated in and conforming to the interior track of the adjustment block for seating a glass panel therein;
a pair of resilient buffer pads running along the inside top edges of the opposing inner and outer shoe walls;
a plurality of laterally-spaced adjustment bolts penetrating both of the inner and outer shoe walls and threadably engaging a bottom base of said glass adjustment block, the adjustment bolts being inserted through the opposing inner and outer shoe walls such that clockwise and counterclockwise turning of the plurality of laterally-spaced adjustment bolts will shift the glass adjustment block laterally back and forth between the inner and outer shoe walls along threads on the adjustment bolts and configured for back-and-forth adjustment of the glass panel within the inner and outer shoe walls, with each of the laterally-spaced adjustment bolts having a nut threaded onto such laterally-spaced adjustment bolt;
and
a plurality of spaced glass securement bolts penetrating both inner and outer shoe walls and the glass panel between the adjustment bolts and buffer pads to prevent the glass panel from falling out.

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