US 5,203,426 AGranted

Portable window perch assembly

OwnerEugene E. Sydnorinventor

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Abstract

An improved portable window perch is easily assembled to allow a user to stand on a perch outside the window of a building structure. The perch is supported by a scaffold placed up against the inside wall surrounding a window. The scaffold has two vertical bars displaced from one another and which can be folded in half through the use of hinges on each of the two vertical bars. The vertical bars are displaced from one another with a cross member between them. Also, at the top of the two vertical bars is an upper horizontal bar, while at the bottom there is a lower horizontal bar. The two horizontal bars have padding thereon so as to prevent damage to the wall. The perch has two arms extended through the window, connected to a platform at one end, suspended outside the window, and a clamp at the other, connected to the cross member with the scaffold erected up against the inside wall, so that the perch is securely and safely supported outside the window.

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Dependent claims

An improved portable window perch assembly usable with a window which may be opened to allow access from the inside of a building structure to the outside of said building structure comprising:

a first vertical bar having a predetermined vertical length;
a first hinge located in the middle of said first vertical bar for selectively collapsing and extending said first vertical bar about its length;
a second vertical bar having a vertical length equivalent to said predetermined vertical length, said second vertical bar being located a predetermined horizontal distance from said first vertical bar;
a second hinge located in the middle of said second vertical bar for selectively collapsing and extending said second vertical bar about its length;
an upper horizontal bar extending from the top of said first vertical bar to the top of said second vertical bar;
a lower horizontal bar extending from the bottom of said first vertical bar to the bottom of said second vertical bar;
a horizontal cross member;
means for attaching said horizontal cross member at one end thereof to said first vertical bar and at the other end thereof to said second vertical bar;
and
a perch for allowing a user to stand thereon, and including means for attaching said perch to said horizontal cross member,
wherein, during operation of said window perch assembly, both said first and second vertical bars are extended and said lower horizontal bar contacts the floor and lower portion of the inside wall of said building structure below said window while said upper horizontal bar contacts the inside wall of said building structure above said window, in such a way that said first and second vertical bars are displaced from said inside wall thereby preventing contact between said perch assembly and said window.

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