Hurricane Hanger
OwnerGlenn Huminskiinventor
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Abstract
What is new to the art to which this technical disclosure pertains, is that once the fasteners are initially installed to the bracket and building, an individual has the ability to install and remove the hurricane hanger shutter assembly without the necessity to install or remove additional fasteners, in a manner which allows the user to slip the shutter in place, securing it in a locked position, without tools or expertise.
Claims6
1) What I claim as my invention is a bracket that can be permanently mounted to a sheet of plywood or other similar material (herein after “panel”) to be used as a hurricane shutter to be placed over windows, doors and other openings in case of a hurricane or other severe storm.
2) What I claim as my invention is the design of the bracket, which will be four feet long, and about five inches high, the side view which will resemble a lower case letter “h” and a series of elliptical holes and adjoining thin vertical slots that will be drilled into the upper portion of the bracket.
3) What I claim as my invention is the design of the placement of the holes of the bracket coinciding with a series of fasteners attached to a building alongside the frame of a door, window or other opening, upon which the attached fasteners can be placed inside the holes and the bracket attached thereupon.
4) What I claim as my invention is the design of the bracket itself, which will become gradually thicker at the top, such that when the bracket is slid over the existing fastener, a compression fit is formed at the top of the vertical slot, locking it into place.
5) What I claim as my invention is the design of the holes (slots) of the bracket, which will be elliptical in nature at the bottom with an adjoining thin vertical slot extending from the lower end of the elliptical hole at an angle of 90 degrees upward, causing the head of the fastener when inserted into the elliptical shaped hole, to be at a resting position with the panel's weight supported, and requiring a secondary lateral movement which will bring the fastener head to the top of the thin vertical hole, locking it into place as it compresses against the thicker portion of the bracket.
6) What I claim as my invention is a bracket that can be permanently attached to a panel, so that it can serve as a hurricane shutter by fitting into a series of screws fastened to the frame of a window, door or other opening and can be attached or removed by one person without assistance of another person and without tools.