Self-contained dual panel window screen alarm

• US 5,594,418 A
• Filed: 02/01/1996
• Issued: 01/14/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lyle B. Martin
• Original Assignee: Lyle B. Martin
• Inventors: Martin, Lyle B.
• Primary Examiner(s): SWANN III, GLEN R
• Application Number:
  US08/595,181
• Time in Patent Office: 348 Days
• Field of Search: 340/550, 340/546, 340/545, 340/693, 200/61.93
• US Class Current: 340/546
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/126 for a housing, e.g. a box, a safe, or a room

Abstract

An expandable intrusion detection screen for use with an audible electronic alarm has first and second screen panels slidably movable in parallel relation to each other to be expandable to fit within different sized window openings. The alarm is mechanically mounted and retained within an internal peripheral channel in the frame of one of the screen panels and has an intrusion detector extending outward through the frame of the screen panel for detecting the separation of the screen panel from any part of the window against which the detector is placed when positioned in a window opening.

Claims

1. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen for use with an electronic alarm means comprising first and second screen panels having bracket means which are affixed to both screen panels so as to form adjacent parallel channels in which said first screen panel is slidably movable in parallel relation to the second screen panel and said second screen panel is slidably movable in parallel relation to the first screen panel so that each screen panel can slidably move in relation to the other to be expandable to fit within different sized window openings, screen mesh mechanically mounted and retained within an internal peripheral channel in the frame of each screen panel, an alarm means permanently affixed to a mounting bracket attachable to one of said screen panels and having an intrusion detector means extending outward through the frame of the screen panel to which the alarm means is mounted for detecting the separation of the screen panel from any part of the window against which the screen panel onto which said alarm means is attached is placed when positioned in a window opening.

2. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 1, said alarm means being armed and disarmed by a switch means operable by use of a key means.

3. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 2, said key means being a pointed implement.

4. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 1, said intrusion detector means being a plunger-type actuating means for detecting the separation of the screen panel from the window part against which the actuating means is placed.

5. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 1, said intrusion detector means being mounted through said frame of the screen panel at a pre-determined distance from said alarm means.

6. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein said mounting bracket is attached to one of said screen panels by flanges on adjoining sides of said mounting bracket extending into said internal peripheral channel in the frame of said screen panel and retained therein.

7. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein said electronic alarm means further comprises a second intrusion detector means having plural contacts through the frame of the screen panel to which the alarm means is mounted on the side facing the other screen panel for contact with a conductor strip means mounted to the adjacent facing side of the frame of the other screen panel for detecting the inward sliding of one screen panel against the other screen panel more than a pre-determined distance.

8. A portable expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 7, wherein said pre-determined distance is in the range of 1 inch to 6 inches.

9. An expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 7, wherein said plural contacts are connected to a first closed loop circuit mounted on said screen mesh of said first screen panel and said conductor strip is connected to a second closed loop circuit mounted on the screen mesh of said second screen panel.

10. An expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 9, wherein said first and second closed loop circuits comprise wire interwoven into said screen mesh.

11. An expandable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 9, wherein said first and second closed loop circuits comprise an electrically conductive coating placed onto said mesh in a pattern which will form said closed loop circuits.

12. A portable intrusion detection screen for use with an electronic alarm means comprising a screen panel having screen mesh mechanically mounted and retained within an internal peripheral channel in the frame of said screen panel, an alarm means permanently affixed to a mounting bracket attachable to said screen panel and having an intrusion detector means extending outward through the frame of the screen panel to which the alarm means is mounted for detecting the separation of the screen panel from any part of the window against which the screen panel onto which said alarm means is attached is placed when positioned in a window opening.

13. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 12, said alarm means being armed and disarmed by a switch means operable by use of a key means.

14. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 13, said key means being a pointed implement.

15. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 12, said intrusion detector means being a plunger-type actuating means for detecting the separation of the screen panel from the window part against which the actuating means is placed.

16. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 12, said intrusion detector means being mounted through said frame of the screen panel at a pre-determined distance from said alarm means.

17. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 12, wherein said electronic alarm means further comprises a second intrusion detector means comprising a closed looped circuit mounted on said screen mesh of said screen panel said alarm means being activated when said closed looped circuit is broken.

18. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 17, wherein said closed looped circuit comprises a wire interwoven into said screen mesh.

19. A portable intrusion detection screen in accordance with claim 17, wherein said closed looped circuit comprises an electrically conductive coating placed onto said mesh in a pattern which will form said closed looped circuit.