US1075618A - Mechanism for operating windows in series. - Google Patents

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RATING WINDOWS 1N SERIES.

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MEGHANISM FOR MPL10 @liv mrd W J. WHITEHEAD. MECHANISM P0P. OPERATING WINDOWS IN SERIES.

APPLICATION FILED 00123, 1910.

. Patented Oct. 14, 1913.

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JOHN IIITEHEAD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AYSON MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOS.

MECHANISM FOR OPERATING YVINDOWS IN SEB/IES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Unt., 141:, *1913,

Serial N0. 584,986.

Application filed October 3, 1910.

vided, for example, with intermeshing, segment-gears 11, 11. The outer or free end of the arms 5, 6 have pivotally connected thereto the brace rods 8, 8, respectively, each To all 'whom i may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN WHITEHEAD, a citizen o the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State oil 5, 6 are geared together, they being prol to the Jfree ends of said arms, and an operatlllinois, have invented a certain new and of said brace rods being also pivotally cons@ useful Improvement in Mechanism for Opnected, as at 9, in some suitable manner to erating lllindows in Series, of which the the trame ot an adjacent window-sash. following is a full, clear, concise, and exact Each bracket 7 is provided with a pulleydescription. frame 12 in which is journaled two guide- My invention relates to mechanism Jor pulleys 18, 13 over which the endless op- 65 simultaneously operating a series of winerating cable 14 runs. An operating rod dows. lts object is to obtain a strong, rigid 15 connects the arm 5 with the operating and direct control of a series of vertically cable 14, said rod being pivoted at one end or horizontally pivoted windows with a to said arm and at the opposite end to a minimum amount of rictional and torsional sleeve 16 clamped about said cable. 7o stress. n The endless cable 14 may be mounted in My invention comprises one or more pairs any suitable manner that will provide means of pivoted arms, each pair so interconnected by which it may be operated to transmit that motion communicated to one arm will motion to the rod 15. ln the drawings such thereby be communicated to the other, means cable is shown as carried by a grooved pulwhereby the relation of said arms is adley 17 journaled in the pulley-iframe 18 justed, and means actuated by said arms mounted upon the jamb 4C of the first of the for opening or closing the several windows. series of windows. Secured upon the axle rEhe several novel tea-tures oi' my invenof the pulley 17 is a gear wheel 19 which tion may be more readily understood by meshes with a worm 2O provided upon the 8o reference to the accompanying drawings axle of the pulley 21. Extending down which show the preferred embodiment ot 'from the pulley 21 are the opposite ends of my invention as applied to horizontally piva chain 22. lt is obvious, therefore, that by oted window sashes. pulling upon one or the other end ot the ln said drawings, Figure 1 is a horichain 22 motion may be transmitted through 85 zontal section through a series of windows, the pulley 21, worm 20, gear wheel 19 and showing the operating mechanism in plan, pulley 17 to the cable 19. adjusted to hold the windows closed; Fig. 2 rlhe position which the operating appais a similar view, showing the operating ratus assumes when the windows are in mechanism adjusted to hold the windows in their closed. position is shown in Fig. 1. open position; Fig. 3 is a central, vertical Upon pulling down upon one end of the section through one of the windows, showchain 22, the operating cable 111 carries the ing the closed and the open position ot' the sleeve 16 nearer to the bracket 7, thus, window in Jfull and in dotted lines, respecthrough the operating rod 15, swinging the tively; and Figs. 4 and 5 are side and end arm 5 away from the arm 6. Since the two 95 elevations respectively of the mechanism by arms 5 and 6 are geared together, they will which the operating cable is actuated. be swung outwardly from each other, and Similar characters of reference refer to hence the rods 8, 8 will be moved into posisimilar parts throughout the several views. tion to swing the windows open upon their For the purpose of illustrating my invenhorizontal pivots. By pulling upon the option, l; have shown a series of swinging winposite end ot the chain 22, the operation ot dow-sashes 1, 2, 3, horizontally pivoted bethe apparatus may be reversed to wholly or tween the successive window jambs 4. Bepartly close the series ot windows. tween the successive windows is mounted a What l claim is: series of pairs of arms 5, 6, each pair ot 1. As an article of manufacture, the comarms being pivoted to swing in a horizontal loination with a bracket, of two arms pivplane upon the pivots 10, 10 upon a bracket oted thereon, said arms being normally 7, whichbracket may be secured to the winnearly parallel and provided with interdow jamb 1. The pivoted ends of said arms meshing, segment-gears, brace rods pivoted ing rod pivoted to one by both of said arms may be operated by a movement of said rod transversely With respect to the normal position of said arms, said operating` rod at its free end being pro-vided with means for securing the same to an operating` cable.

2. rThe combination with two Windows provided with swinqing sashes, of a bracket mounted between said Windows, arms pivoted upon said bracket, said arms projecting substantially at right angles to said Windows and being provided With interof said arms, Where- Washington, D. C.

meshing, ing from to the corresponding W @rating rod secured to cable to which said o nected, and means for ln Witness whereof, my name this 30th day 1910.

Witnesses MCCLELLAND MOORE;

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segment-gears, a brace rod extendthe free end of each of said rods indoW-sash, an opone of said arms, a perating rod is con- Y operating said cable. I, hereunto subscribe of September, A. D.,

JGHN VVHITEHEAD.

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