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US 4,038,791 AGranted
Window greenhouse
OwnerJohn W. Atkinsoninventor
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Abstract
A window greenhouse prefabricated from a plurality of sections of extruded material and panels of predetermined lengths and sizes that may be assembled and mounted in an existing window opening on the window frame for which it was designed.
Claims8
A window greenhouse comprising in combination:
- a frame formed of a plurality of interconnected sections defining an enclosure,
- one part of said frame comprising a head section, a sill section and a pair of jamb sections,
- said head section and sill section being arranged in spaced parallel arrangement to fit juxtapositioned to the head and sill members of a window frame,
- each of said jamb sections interconnecting a different end of the head section and sill section forming a frame defining an opening fitting within the opening of the window,
- said head section comprising an extrusion having a longitudinally projecting flange or spline extending over a flange on the head member of the window for interlocking said rectangular frame to said head member of said window,
- said sill section comprising an extrusion having a longitudinal projecting flange extending over a flange on the sill member of the window for interlocking said sill section of said rectangular frame to said window,
- attachment means extending through each end of said sill section and said head section and into the frame of said window for anchoring said rectangular frame to the window,
- said frame further comprising gable side rail sections extending laterally outwardly one from each end of said head section, an eave section interconnecting the free ends of said gable side rail sections, side sill sections extending outward from each end of said sill section in the same direction as said gable side rail sections and a second sill section interconnecting the free ends of said side sill sections, and
- a pair of corner jamb sections one interconnecting each of the ends of said gable side rail sections, said eave section, and said sill sections to form said enclosure,
- each of the gable side rails detachably interlocking with said head section and further provided with an outstanding flange which interlocks with a bracket fastened to the head member of the window.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.