US1060567A - Glazier's point. - Google Patents

Description

R. E. HUMBERT.

GLAZIERS POINT.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 3. 1910.

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GLAZIEBS PGINT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed may 3, 1910. Serial 250. 559,113}.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, RICHARD F. HUM- nnn'r, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Milford, in the county of Pike and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and Improved Glaziers Point, of which the following is a specification.

My inyention relates to glaziers points and the special object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensively manufactured device in which the main securing point liescout of line with the bearing surface, is preferably resiliently connected to the latter, is readily applied in glazing and at the same time is simple and inexpensive c a supplemental holding point dstruck down to manufacture.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is across section of portion of a sash and window pane showing my improved point in'one form; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a plan of a blank for a modified form of point; FigA is a side elevation of the point made from this blank; Fig. 5

is a variation thereof; Fig. 6 is a plan of the blank for another modification; Fig. 7 is a sidev elevation of the point formed therefrom; Fig. 8 is a similar view of a variation thereof; Fig. 9 is a plan of another modified form; Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the point formed therefrom; Fig. 11 is a perspective of the latter; Fig. 12 is a variation of this point; and Fig. 13 is a side elevation thereof.

In applying the usual triangular glaziers point, it not infrequentlyhappens that when driving it in, the pressure against the ed of the glass is so dgreat that the latter is chipped or cracke This is particularly apt tooccur if the point is put in at a slight angle, to facilitate itsinsertionan operation which at best is awkward without specially adapted tools for this purpose.

The present point obviates both the danger and the difiiculty of the use of the customary point, by offsetting the point from the bearin surface. Thus in Fig. l the point comprises the bearing surface a and the point 6 connected thereto b the intervening ofiset shoulder c. lit is o vious that inasmuch as the point I) is spaced from the glass m and as the bearing surface a does not come in contact with the edge of the glass until the point is driven home in the sash 3 no danger of cracking or chipping the glass is incurred, while the intervening sho der 0 not only a-fi'ords a convenient surface for the application of the driving force which may even bethe finger, but also act as a spring connection between the point and the bearing surface which, should the pressure against the glass become too great by reason of the insertion of the point at an angle, yields sufliciently to allow the point to enter with no injury to the glass and only a slight deformation of the point as a whole.

The point is shown in its simplest form in Figs. 1 and 2 as an angled blank. @bviously its form may be. variously altered while still presenting the main features off y blank, in addition to being angled, may have in line with the bearing surface 0:, though preferably slightly oflset therefrom as at d in Fig. 5. In Fig. 6 the blank is notched at e and folded around so that the upper end of the point 1) lies in the notch. This afi'ords a broad inclined surface 9 very convenient when the point is pressed in with the thumb or finger; Practically the same form may be made b folding down the broad end 9 of the point over the shoulder c as'in Fig. 8. lln the remainin figures the point is struck from a circular blank m or m the main and auxiliary points 6 li and d, d respectively being struck out from the body oi? the blank.

' The precise proportions and terms shown may be varied in many ways without departing from my invention and it do not limit my invention to the details illustrated.

ll am aware that glaziers points with bearing surface and point lying in the same plane ave been provided with ofiset drivmg shoulders. I am also aware that glaziers ointshave been made with a supplemental u struck ed at an angle for facing the point against the glass and l do not pretend that such structures fall within the scope oil my invention.

1 claim as my invention: 1. A laziers point having an upwardly angled earin glass and a ownwardly angle securing point lying in another plane substantially parallel thereto, together with a shoulder extending between and connecting said bearing surface and. point and a supplemental se curing point struck down from said shoulder, substantially as described.

2. A glaziers point having an upwardly invention. Thus in Figs. 3 and 4 the surface to lie a ainst the did loll

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extending between and connectin said bearing surface and point and a supp emental securing point struck down from said shoulder in a plane between saidbearing surface and main securing point, substantially as described.

3. A glaziers point having an upwardly angled bearing surface to lie against the glass and a downwardly angled securing point lying in another plane, in combination withan impact shoulder flexibly connecting said bearing surface and point, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A glaziers point having an upwardly oewe? clined surface extending between the upper edge of said bearing surface and the upper edge of said point, to form a finger rest, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD E. HUMBERT.

Witnesses:

MABnL P. HUMBERT, Gno. SMITH.

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