US104314A - Robebt b - Google Patents

Description

the following is aspeciti Letters Patent No. 104,

31.4, dated func 141, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN H-HQLDERS.

I The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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1N, of Cleveland, county of o, have invented certain iniwsash Supporters, of which cation.

Nature of the Invention.

This invention consists in using, in connection with a sash-holder plate, a pivot, constructed with a concave or convex top surface, and a projection or socket corresponding with the top of the pivot, formed on -the underside of the plate, the two surfaces acting together, so as to receive the 'wear and prevent motionof plate of a longitudinal `character, during raising or lowering ofthe sash, and afording the qualities required, as a hinge, in allowing' the roller-end of the plate to raise and fall, according to pressure conveyed ti'omlzsasb.

Description of D .I, ROBERT B. HUGUN Cuyahoga, State of Olii prcvements in VlTindo rowing, dre., Accompanying this Spembcat'on. Figure 1, elevation'of pivoted plate, showing pivot and spring, as in use. 1 Figure 2, same as iigJ, with spring-end compressed rick.

Figure 3, illustration ot' a see pivot and socket.

Figure 4, illustration 'of a scot projection `for anchoring spring.

Figures AI3, 6, and 7, view of plates u kinds of rollers aud fiiction-surfaces.

l General Description.

A, roller or pivoted plate, with socket for p in its under side. l B, pivot to t the socketcast .on th'e under side of late A. This pivot is constructed so as to be driven utoa hole bored for it in the mortise, in which hole tis held firmly, and, inturn,"hold`s the plate; This iivot may be made convex, 85e., 'on its top side, to lit concavesocket on the under side of theplate, or in n'yyother4 form thatwillallowa rocking motion, 85e. n with said pivot or tion ot' pivot-end, with ion springend, with sing various ivot cast C, springused, in combinatie hinge, for the purpose of allowing the end of the plate and roller on which it is used to adjust itself to 'the space and pressure, 85o.

By having this spring of a good lengt-h, so as to throw the end ofthe plate well out, a sash can L@ in a window without removing the stops, by p one edge against the roller-plate, and compress back, so as to allow the sash to slip in' on the e side, Sac., when the spring will force it into its pr l position, and keep it there, till pressed back and taten.

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D, projection on the under choring' the spring.

E, a. common wood-serew i'or s F, body of the roller.

G, roller covering.

H H', friction surfaces on plate A.

I, toothed surface of met-al port-ion of the reliez', 'the .same being on the end, or in the center, as per figs. and 6. i

Any number of rollers may he used in one. plate :lc-- sired.

1 am aware that the roller-plate or case' has been permanently pivoted at on'e end and free at the other end this do not claim.

side of the plate, ibranecuring the plaie.

Claims.

described. v

It. B. HUGUNIN.

Witnesses G. W. LYNDE, JAMES ToUsLnY.

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