US 11,879,291 B2
Bahama/colonial louver shutter
Raffaele Barioli, Lake Worth, FL (US); Brian Peterson, Lake Worth, FL (US); and Chris Miller, Lake Worth, FL (US)
Assigned to Eastern Metal Supply, Inc., Lake Worth, FL (US)
Filed by EASTERN METAL SUPPLY, INC., Lake Worth, FL (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,192.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/085,237, filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0098925 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. E06B 7/086 (2006.01); E06B 7/082 (2006.01); E06B 7/096 (2006.01); E06B 9/00 (2006.01); E06B 7/09 (2006.01)
CPC E06B 7/086 (2013.01) [E06B 7/082 (2013.01); E06B 7/09 (2013.01); E06B 7/096 (2013.01); E06B 2009/005 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shutter, comprising:
first and second side rails having cavities running in a direction from top to bottom, each cavity having an opening along a lateral side;
a plurality of pairs of slat supports, each pair having a slat support mounted in the cavity of the first rail and mounted in the cavity of the second rail, each slat support having a first section and a second section, comprising:
the first section having a shape to slide into one of the cavities, and to stack and nest with an adjacent first section of another slat support in the one of the cavities;
the second section protruding through the opening of the one of the cavities; and
a plurality of slats, each slat mounted on the second sections of one of the pairs of slat supports;
each first section of each slat support comprises:
an upward facing horizontal top side extending from a first end of a vertical back side;
a front diagonal side extending from an end of the horizontal top side;
an upward facing horizontal ledge side extending from an end of the front diagonal side;
a vertical front side extending from an end of the horizontal ledge side;
a downward facing horizontal bottom side extending from a first end of the vertical front side;
a back diagonal side extending from an end of the horizontal bottom side, the back diagonal side being parallel to the front diagonal side;
a downward facing ledge side extending from an end of the back diagonal side and from a second end of the vertical back side; and
the vertical front side and the vertical back side defining an overall width of the slat support, the width matching a width of the cavity of one of the rails;
wherein adjacent slat supports in the cavity of one of the rails are configured to nest such that the downward facing horizontal ledge side, the back diagonal side, and the downward facing horizontal bottom side of one of the adjacent slat supports rests on and directly contacts the upward facing horizontal top side, the front diagonal side, and the upward facing horizontal ledge side, respectively, of the other of the adjacent slat supports.