Patent ID: 6896026

Claim:
An improved flyscreen and door assembly comprising: a door having a static panel and a generally horizontally slidable opening panel and a generally upright jamb defining one side of an opening of the door; a flyscreen comprising a track and a reciprocably slidable frame within said track, said frame slidingly deployed within said track for back and forth movement across the opening of the door, said frame being dimensioned to correspond to the dimensions of the door opening to be covered by the flyscreen, said frame having a mesh screen therein extending thereacross and having generally upright lateral sides; a first brush mounted on and extending substantially the full length of one of said lateral sides of said slidable frame which first brush is positioned such that, when said slidable frame slidingly moves back and forth in front of the opening of the door, said first brush passes closely over the surface of the static panel of the door, wherein said first brush mounted on said slidable frame is provided on a projecting limb of said slidable frame that projects from said slidable frame toward the plane of said door static panel but is dimensioned so as to allow said flyscreen to clear a door handle but ensure that said first brush remains in close proximity to the door static panel as said slidable frame is slid back and forth; and a second brush mounted on said generally upright jamb of the door against which the edge of the trailing lateral side of the slidable frame comes to rest when the flyscreen is drawn closed to completely overlie the opening of the door, said second brush extending substantially the height of said jamb and serving to cooperatively engage against said first brush mounted on said slidable frame to substantially seal the edge of said trailing lateral side of said slidable frame against ingress by insects.