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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1989
Bernard J Rotter, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Timothy M Whitten, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Silas A Brown, Marine on the St. Croix, MN (US);
Other;
Abstract
A porch is provided having a ceiling, floor and at least three walls, the fourth wall being in most cases the wall of a house or other building to which the porch is attached. Each wall is made up of a plurality of identical window units or modules in side-by-side relationship and each window module includes a pair of laterally spaced apart vertically disposed parallel frames, one frame on each side. A multi-channel window track is mounted on the side of each frame. Both the frames and the tracks extend from the ceiling down below the floor of the porch. Independently movable window sashes are slidably mounted in each of the channels and are stored when not in use in a pocket at least partially below the floor level so that the lower edge of each window opening is spaced above the floor by a distance less than the height of one of the sashes so that the window openings are close enough to the floor to help promote a visual illusion of being outside.