Gary L Forslin

US Patent:

46868054, Aug 18, 1987

Filed:

Feb 21, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/703993

Inventors:

Gary L. Forslin - Johnson City TN

Assignee:

Jarl Extrusions, Inc. - Elizabethton TN

International Classification:

E06B 300

US Classification:

52208

Abstract:

A panel support for various kinds of panels such as windows sliding doors, room dividers or the like, comprising sash means having wall means adapted to be spaced outwardly from and substantially encircling the periphery of panel means, shoulder means adapted to contact and retain said panel means in position within said sash means with said wall means in spaced relationship to said panel means periphery, the width of said wall means adapted to extend generally perpendicular to the plane of said panel means and for a distance at least substantially the thickness thereof, primary thermal break means in said wall means extending substantially the length thereof, mounting means for securing said sash means to a building, and shroud means adapted to lie adjacent portions of either one or both edges of said wall and mounting means and having surfaces spaced from said portions to provide dead-air, secondary thermal break means.