Combination storm window and security system

• US 4,686,792 A
• Filed: 03/03/1986
• Issued: 08/18/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Barbara C. Terrian
• Original Assignee: Barbara C. Terrian
• Inventors: Terrian, Barbara C.
• Primary Examiner(s): KANNAN, PHILIP
• Application Number:
  US06/835,168
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 49/61, 49/62, 49/13, 49/31, 52/202, 52/203, 52/207, 116/85, 200/61.62
• US Class Current: 49/61
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 3/28 with additional removable glass panes or the like, framed or unframed
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 5/11 against burglary
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/08 by opening, e.g. of door, of window, of drawer, of shutter, of curtain, of blind

Abstract

A combination storm window and security system that fits into the window frame openings of a house. The window frame is normally formed of aluminum material and it has a stationary window panel and a slidable window panel. A pair of vertical sheet metal brackets are spaced inwardly from the aluminum window frame and these metal brackets are rigidly attached to the respective vertically extending window frame side members. Spaced intermediate the metal brackets is a vertical support member having its bottom end rigidly attached to the window sill and its top end rigidly attached to the header. A pair of storm windows have elongated strip magnets attached to their outside surface that are detachably securable to the respective vertical sheet metal brackets. The vertical support member may be formed of sheet metal or a vertically oriented metal plate may be attached to its inner surface for detachably contacting the strip magnets on the outside surface of the storm window panels. The interior surfaces of the storm window panels have a channel formed along their bottom edge that functions to provide a fingergrip flange for removing the storm panels and it also functions to house one component of a wide gap magnetic switch whose other component is mounted adjacent thereto in one of the vertical window frame members. The second component of the wide gap magnetic switch is connected to a transmitter in a security alarm system. The gap between the two components of the wide gap magnet is such that anyone attempting to remove the storm window panel will cause a signal to be transmitted to the transmitter indicating that someone is trying to break into the house.

Claims

1. A combination storm window and security system comprising:

a house window frame opening having a rectangular configuration formed from a pair of laterally spaced vertically extending window frame members, a header connecting the top ends of said window frame members and a window sill connecting the bottom ends of said window frame members;

a rectangularly shaped aluminum window frame fixedly mounted in said window frame opening, said aluminum window frame having a pair of laterally spaced vertical channels connected at their bottom ends by a horizontal track channel, a sliding window panel mounted in said horizontal track channel, a stationary window panel laterally offset from said horizontal track channel and being rigidly secured to said aluminum window frame;

said window frame opening having an exterior side and an interior side, a pair of vertical sheet metal brackets offset toward the interior side of said window frame opening from said aluminum window frame, said vertical sheet metal brackets being rigidly attached to the respective vertically extending window frame members;

a vertical support member having its bottom end rigidly attached to the window sill and its top end rigidly attached to said header, said vertical support member being positioned approximately midway between said vertical sheet metal brackets;

a pair of storm windows having an exterior side and an interior side;

magnetic means for detachably securing said storm windows to said vertical sheet metal brackets and said vertical support members;

a wide gap magnetic switch having two separate components, the first one of said components being mounted on one of said storm windows adjacent one of its edges and the second of said components being located in said window frame, said second component being connected to a security alarm system; and

said storm windows having a channel formed on their interior side along their bottom edge, said channel functioning as a fingergrip flange and also as a housing for supporting the first component of said wide gap magnet.

2. A combination storm window and security system as recited in claim 1 wherein said magnetic means are vertically oriented strip magnets that are attached to the exterior side of said storm windows and they mate with said vertical sheet metal brackets.

3. A combination storm window and security system as recited in claim 1 wherein said storm windows have acrylic plastic window panes.