Pollen or insect screen for applying to openings in buildings such as windows, doors or similar

• US 20060144531A1
• Filed: 12/17/2002
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tesa AG (Maxingvest AG)
• Original Assignee: Tesa AG (Maxingvest AG)
• Inventors: Reiss-Schmidt, Tobias
• Application Number:
  US10/528,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20060144531A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 160/330
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/522 Dimensionally adjustable fly screens E06B9/54 and E06B9/521 take precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a pollen or insect screen for applying to openings in buildings such as windows, doors or similar. Said screen consists of a bar, which is attached, in particular, above the opening o the building. According to the invention, the bar is provided with at least three guide mechanisms, which are aligned substantially parallel to one another and extended in the longitudinal direction of the bar, in addition to at least five substantially parallel screen strips, which are displaceably mounted by the guide mechanisms of said bar.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A pollen or insect screen comprising a rail comprising at least three substantially parallel guides extending in a longitudinal direction of the rail, and at least five substantially parallel screen strips movably mounted in the guides.

9. The screen according to claim 8, wherein each of said guides extends substantially an entire length of the rail, and at least one screen strip is received in the guide in such a way that the at least one screen strip is slidable substantially said entire length.

10. The screen according to claim 8, wherein the rail is fixed to a substrate above an opening in a building, and said rail is fixed by means of bolts, fastening tapes, double-sided adhesive strips, and fastening devices having a recess into which the rail can be hung.

11. The screen according to claim 10, wherein said fastening devices comprise a bottom plate comprising said recess, and said bottom plate is emplaced on a base plate, and the base plate is adhered to the substrate by an adhesive strip.

12. The screen according to claim 11, wherein the adhesive strip is a stretch-release adhesive strip.

13. The screen according to claim 11, wherein the rail, the bottom plate and/or the base plate is made of plastic, wood, glass, metal or Eloxal.

14. The screen according to claim 13, wherein the rail, the bottom plate and/or the base plate is made of a material selected from the group consisting of polyolefin, polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene, ABS, polyester, polyamide, PMMA, polycarbonate, PVC and Resopal.

15. The screen according to claim 8, wherein the guides are slots, and the slots receive a thickened part of a free end of each screen strip.

16. The screen according to claim 15, wherein at least a part of a wall of at least one slot comprises a lip-shaped part capable of enclosing the thickened part of the free end of at least one screen strip.

17. A method of screening an opening of a building against the ingress of pollen or insects, said method comprising applying a screen according to claim 8 above said opening.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the opening is a window.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the opening is a door.