US1026838A

US1026838A - Frame.

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Publication number: US1026838A
Application number: US58128810A
Authority: US
Inventors: Andrew L Weis
Original assignee: WEIS Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: WEIS MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1910-09-09
Filing date: 1910-09-09
Publication date: 1912-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 1929-05-21

Description

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW L. wms, or normal, MICHIGAN, nsszonon r0 ran wnrs mumorunmo comm, or nounon, women, a CORPORATION.

linen. 1,026,838. p tion 0! Letters Patent. Patented May 21, 1912.

Application ale-d September a, 1910. serial No. 581,288.

To all whom it may concern: end, as shown, to form symmetrical angular Be it known that I ANDREW L. Wms, a citizen of the United States, residin at Monroe, in the county of Monroe and tate of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, refof glass, panels, or the like, and is particu- 4 larly well adapted for small sliding glass doors arranged as closures for the compartments of a bookcase or the like.

My invention is .designed to furnish aframe com-posed entirely of sheet-metal and which may be assembled and secured in place without the use of solder or rivets.

My invention is also intended to provide a handle which is secured in place by the frame.

I attain these objects by means of the construction and arran ement of parts here inafter described, an shown and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure l is a front view of a plate of glass mounted in my frame; Fig. 2 a perspective view of a portion of the same with a part of the frame removed; Fig. 3 a perspective view of one of the channeled endpieces, hereinafter referred to, detached; Fig. 4 a perspective view of one end of a top or bottom channeled piece, hereinafter referred to, detached, and Fig. 5 a perspective view of the handle-plate and handle,

\ hereinafter referred to, detached.

ent is,

joints at the corners of part 1. a

At each corner of the plate 1, the mitered of one of the strips coinciding with the bottom of the channel or groove therein is extended to form an elongated tongue 4. This part is bent inwardly at a right-angle to embrace closely the corner of the part 1 and near its end is bent .outwardly'at a rightangle, as at 5. Through the bottom of the channel of the piece which abuts against the piece having the tongue 5 is a narrow transverse slot 6 which, when this piece is put in place, receives the tongue 5 which projects outwardly through the slot. The tongue 5' being now bent closely down upon the edge of the piece through which it projects, as at 7, the two meeting channeled metal pieces are'tightly locked together with their mitered edges in close contact.

The mar ins ofthe pieces 2-3 lie so close to the sur ace of the part 1 that no finger hold is resented and it becomes necessary to provi e means for takin hold of the device in order to move it. 0 this end 8 is a triangular piece of sheet metal, two edges of which converge at a right angle and which have backwardly turned flanges 9. To the outer side of the piece 8 is secured a handle 10. Before the metal frame is secured in place, the flanges 9 are slipped into contact with the meeting margins of the plate at one of its corners with the handle projecting outwardly. Now. when the channeled frame pieces are secured in place, the outer flange or side of the frame members will embrace and firmly hold in place the part 10 with its handle. Two handles may of course be provided, if desired, but where the window or door is to be moved to overlap a correspondin device, only a single handle will be provided for each one at 1ts outer lower corner.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 1. In a a longitudinall channeled metal strip-mitered at its en the central transverse portion of the end of 'the'strip being elongated device of the, described character,

-to form a tongue, a coire naag mitered.

channeled metal strip-end aving through the bottom of its channel an aperture through which said tongue extends, said tongue being bent into parallel relation with mitered at their meeting ends, and means a for securing the meeting ends of said strips together consisting of a tongue formed by extendingthe bottom portion of the channel of one of the meetmg ends, said tongue passing through a transverse slot in the bet- 7 tom portion of the channel ofthe other v meeting end, the projecting tongue being turned-to overlap the outer margin of the slotted member.

3. In a device of the described character,

a sheet of glass, a sheet metal plate having flanges which engage the converging margins of one corner of the glass, a handle secured to said late and a frame consisting of metal strips aving channels which-receive the margins of the glass and the flanges of said plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' ANDREW LL-WEIS.

Witnesses:

ALBERT G. Ntms'r, F, R. Mom.