US105787A - Improvement in sash-locks - Google Patents

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suited-hm @sind l @wie GEORGE W. D'UBUIssoN, or NoRWlCH, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAsH-Locxs.

p The `Schedule*referred to in these Letters-Patent and making pari: of the same To all whom it may concern.:

,p Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DUBUIssoN, of Norwich, in the countyof VNew London and in the i State of' Connecticut, havefinvented certain new and p marked thereon making :i part of this speeiliczttion.

`The nature of my invention consistsl in' the con-l struction amd arrangement ofa,` szish-stop and lock,

as will belhereinztl'ter 'i'nlly set i'orth.`

In order toenable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the i smne,`1 will nowl proceed to describe its construction and operation, refexTingto the annexeddrznving, in

Figure Al is :t perspective view of :L window-sash and frame with myvimprovement attached, und

Figure 2 is :t vertical section, showing the stop and *A represents the window-snsh, `and B the window frame.` 1n the outeredgevof one of the upright rails of the window-sashA, nstrip is taken ont by o snit'- threengliin `In the recess thus formed is insertCl :t strip, G, of

d corrugated hard wood, iiush with the thee of the rail.

1n `place of the corrngatedfwood str a, corrugated' bar of metal or other suitable mnterizilnwy be used.

K In a recess `in they window-frame B 1s inserisci-1d spring, D, bent or straight, as maybe desired; with corrngationsto fit those inthe strip or bnr B.

On the inner side, of the spring D is placed a camshaped button, E, which is operated by al knob or 'thumb-piece, Gr, on the outside of the casing, both the button and the knob, being on the `same shaft, possing through the' inner sideof the-casing.

The but-ton E, fitting against the ii'znne'rtnd dropping into n cori-ligation inthespring,`mztkes the whole solid, and the sash Cannot be raised or lowered. By turning the buttonV away from the spring, the sash can readily beratised or lowered :it will.

The spring D forms the sash-stop, as it holds and supports the sztsh at :my height it muy beplnced,zn1d, by the nseot' the button E, the sash becomes locked.

This device is very simple, chesp, vnnd easily :ipplied to any window-frame. 'outside but the knohor thumb-piece G.v

I :nu aware that the devices herein shown :md described, when taken separately, are of themselves not new.`

In combination with the corrugated strip C on the window-sash A, the corrugnted spring D, bent U- p ,t shaped, and operated by the czhn Ein zu recess in the `freine by means of the handle G, all as set i'orth.V

`\;`In testimony that rI claim `the foregoing, I have heren to set my hand and seal this 28th dey of March, 187()r j" GEORGE XV. DUBUISSON. [L.- 5.] l-MWitn'esses SOLOMON LUCAS,

G. L. BENJAMIN.

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