Skylight shade

• US 5,568,832 A
• Filed: 10/18/1994
• Issued: 10/29/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Zonell Eddy
• Original Assignee: Zonell Eddy
• Inventors: Eddy, Zonell
• Primary Examiner(s): JOHNSON, BLAIR M
• Application Number:
  US08/325,032
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 160/335, 160/333, 160/336, 160/374, 160/372, 160/368.1, 160/369, 160/371, 160/373, 160/376, 160/377, 160/378, 5/627
• US Class Current: 160/374
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 13/033 provided with means for controlling the light-transmission or the heat-reflection, (e.g. shields, reflectors, cleaning devices)
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/24 Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blindsoperating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures E06B9/56; free-hanging flexible screens A47H23/00

Abstract

A skylight shade formed of a frame and engageable with the sides of a skylight opening and a filter sheet supported by the frame. The frame is formed from a plurality of adjustable rods which each have an outer member and an inner member which is adjustably received within the outer member and engages a spring therein. The outer member has a aperture extending perpendicularly therethrough adjacent one end and receives an end of an inner member of another rod therein. The filter sheet has attachment sleeves which are received around the rods for attaching the filter sheet to the frame. The rods contract via springs to allow each rod to be received within the skylight opening and are forcibly biased via springs the rod into secure engagement with the sided of the skylight opening.

Claims

1. A shade for engagement with sides of a skylight opening or similar opening for emitting daylight therethrough, comprising:

a frame engageable with the sides of the opening, said frame comprising;

a plurality of four rods, each of said rods having first and second ends;

means for adjusting a length of each of said rods whereupon each of said rods spans one of the sides of the opening with said rod ends engaging opposed sides of the opening;

means for coupling a first end of one of said rods with a second end of another of said rods, said means comprising an aperture in said second end of each of said rods for normal extension of said first end of one of said other rods therethrough, whereupon said coupled rods define said frame, the sides of the opening bounding said frame;

a sheet extending between said rods and being supported by said frame for filtering the daylight passing through said opening.

2. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 1, wherein

each said rod includes a first inner member including said first rod end and a second outer member including said aperture into which said first rod end of said inner member of another rod adjustably extends.

3. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 2, wherein

said adjusting means includes a biasing member within each said rod'"'"'s second outer member, each said first inner member engaging its rod'"'"'s said biasing member, each said biasing member contracting to allow its said rod to be received within the opening and forcibly biasing its said rod into first and second ends, said engagement with sides of the opening.

4. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 3, wherein said bias member is a coiled spring.

5. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 1, wherein said filter sheet includes attachment sleeves received around said rods for attaching said filter sheet to said frame.

6. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 1, wherein said filter sheet is formed of reflective cloth material.

7. A skylight opening shade, comprising:

a frame engageable with sides of the skylight opening formed from a plurality of adjustable rods, each said rod having a first outer member and a second inner member, one end of said inner member being adjustably received within a first open end of said first outer member; and

a filter sheet extending between said rods and including attachment sleeves received around said rods for attaching said filter sheet to said frame,

each said first outer members having an aperture extending perpendicularly therethrough, each said aperture being adjacent a second end of its said first outer member for receiving a second end of an inner member of another of said rods therethrough,

each of said rods having a biasing member within its said first outer member for engagement with its said second inner member, each said biasing member contracting to allow its said rod to be received within the skylight opening and forcibly biasing its said rod into secure engagement with sides of the skylight opening.

8. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 7, wherein

said frame includes four said rods.

9. A skylight shade as claimed in claim 7, wherein

said filter sheet is formed of reflective cloth material.