Vertical corner post for screened-in room structure

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention broadly relates to enclosed structures wherein a wall bounds and encloses an area to delimit a room or the like.
In particular, such structures are commonly utilized in fabricating screened or otherwise substantially closed-in rooms or porches as additions to a home or a commercial building.
The room may be built immediately and abuttingly adjacent to the building's exterior so that they share a common wall and accordingly the addition of an enlcosed porch to an existing home or other structure can be accomplished merely by providing room-defining walls as herein described extending outwardly from the building and a roof over the area.
A portion of a room-defining wall intended for such a construction is seen in FIG.
1 and therein designated by the general reference numeral 10.
The present invention relates specifically to vertical corner post members for use in fabricating variously angled portions of a room-enclosing wall of the general type illustrated in FIG.
1.
Accordingly, the portion of the wall 10 illustrated is shown as angular and convoluted, rather than straight as much as the wall might actually be constructed, so as to facilitate an understanding of the manner in which the inventive corner posts may be employed in a completed room-defining arrangement.
The wall 10 is comprised of spaced-apart vertical support members, such as the corner posts 12 and 14 shown, between which flexible screening 16 and substantially rigid kick plate panels 18 are disposed so as to bound the enclosed area.
Various horizontal members individually and collectively designated 20 and forming no part of the present invention are provided at the top and bottom of the wall 10 and between the screening 16 and kick plates 18 to complete and rigidify the overall structure and improve the decorative appearance thereof.
Thus, the wall 10 essentially comprises a lattice or framework of vertically and horizontally-disposed support members between which flexible screening 16 and relatively rigid kick plate panels 18 are vertically held to complete the enclosing wall structure