US 11,988,038 B2
Window screen with magnetic corner keys and associated corner key mates
Kenton Sites Gibbs, Jr., Rocky Mount, VA (US); and Daniel Lee Rider, Wirtz, VA (US)
Assigned to Ply Gem Industries, Inc., Cary, NC (US)
Filed by Ply Gem Industries, Inc., Cary, NC (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,721.
Prior Publication US 2023/0323733 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. E06B 9/52 (2006.01)
CPC E06B 9/52 (2013.01) [E06B 2009/527 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A kit for a magnetically attaching a window screen to a window frame, the kit comprising:
a plurality of screen corner keys each with a central magnetic member and two orthogonally opposed flanges extending outwardly from the central magnetic member; and
a plurality of corner key mates for insertion into a screen channel of the window frame, the corner key mates each comprising an upper wall, side wall, and a diagonally disposed spanning member positioned therebetween, wherein a plurality of hollow thin-walled screen frame members each with a first end and a second end receive the flanges of the screen corner key at their first and second ends joining them to orthogonally opposed adjacent screen frame members of the plurality of screen frame members to ultimately form a fully assembled screen frame, the central magnetic members of the screen corner keys configured to be positioned proximate the corner key mate thereby causing each of the magnetic corner keys of the screen frame to be magnetically attracted to and releasably attached to the corner key mates inserted in the screen channel of the window frame.