US1029188A - Weather-guard for windows. - Google Patents

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W. S. HAMM & A. H. NEWPHER.

WEATHER GUARD FOR WINDOWS. I

' APPLIQATION FILED APR. 3, 1911., 1,029, 1 88.

Patented June 11, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. HAHN, OF HUBBARD WOODS, AND ALFRED H. NEWPHER, OF CHICAGO,

' ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLI- NOIS, A CORPORATION 01' ILLINOIS.

WEATHER-GUARD FOR WINDOWS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IVILLIAM S. HAMM and ALFRED H. NEWPHER, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Hubbard Woods, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, and Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVeather-Guards for Windows, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated'in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to Weather guards for windows, and is for use on the side rails of a sliding sash; its object is to secure an air tight joint without material friction tending to retard the movement of the sash.

A further object is to provide a construction which will have great durability and be permanently reliable.

The invention is fully hereinafter described, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a detail section and partly bro zen away, of awindow casing and sash mounted therein; Fig.

7 2 is a longitudinal section of the guard;

and Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. In the drawings the invention is shown in connection with a window especiallyadapted for car construction, and there is represented at 10 a portion of the outer wall of a car body and consisting of a metal plate; at 11 is shown a window sill; at 12 one of the stiles of the window casing and having an adjustable stile plate 13 and sash stops or guides 14, 15 and 16; at 17, 18, are shown a pair of sash fitted within the sashways bounded by the stops. While two sashes, an outer and an inner one, are shown, the invention is equally applicable to a single sash window.

An angle plate 19 is secured by means of screws, as 20, 21 and 22,to the outer face of the side of the car. As shown, the stile 12 is provided with a flange 23, which is folded back on. the outer face of the wall plate 10; and the outer leaf of the angle plate 19 is fitted directly upon this flange, its edge overlapping the same and being turned inward to meet the plate 10 for the purpose of forming a tight joint therewith. The instanding Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 3, 1911.

particularly adapted erspective, partly in Patented June 11, 1912. Serial No. 618,727.

leaf 2 1 of the plate 19 makes a loose con- .tact with the outer sash 17, and is spaced apart from the outer stop 14, forming there- 'with a chamber having an open side directed toward the sash. Within the chamber 'thus formed there is housed a longitudinal plate 27 hearing against the inwardly fold-- ed portion of the plate 26 and the free edge 29 of the latter plate being adapted to'bear against the outer face of the sash 17. To prevent wear the side rail of the sash, when of wood as shown, is preferably covered with metal, as at 30.

A spring, as 31, is applied to the back or outer face of the bar 25, and reacts against the outer wall of the plate 19 for the purpose of urging the bar and the plates carried thereby toward the sash. The plates 26, 27, may be formed of a single sheet folded about the bar 25, and may be conveniently secured thereto by means of screws, such as 32, of any desired number, one of which is shown, and as serving also to attach the spring 31 to the bar. The spring 31 presses the bar 25 toward the sash with suflicient force to insure a slight flexure of the inwardly folded flange of the plate 26, thus causing it to make a tight joint with the flange 28 of the plate 27 and a tight joint with the sash by the engagement therewith of its edge 29. We have found that by this open side facing the sash-way, a floating bar.

within the casing, a pair of flexible plates carried by the bar and folded to overlap,

one of said plates having its free edge presented to the sash-way and adapted to engage a sash, and a spring urging the bar toward the sash-Way.

2. In a weather guard for WlIldOWS, in combination, a stile having a longitudinal chambered casing, such chamber having an open side facing the sash-Way, a floating bar u'ithin the casing, two flexible plates of spring metal attached to the bar and projecting from opposite sides thereof toward vthe sash-Way, such plates having'their free

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