US1082308A

US1082308A - Sash.

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Publication number: US1082308A
Application number: US76801113A
Authority: US
Inventors: Martin S Crane
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-05-16
Filing date: 1913-05-16
Publication date: 1913-12-23
Anticipated expiration: 1930-12-23

Description

M. S. CRANE.

SASH.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1913.

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BASH.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

Application filed ma 16, 1912. Serial No. 768,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. CRANE, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sashes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sashes such as are employed for retaining plates of glass in position in windows or doors.

My improvements pertain particularly to sashes for holding large and heavy plates such as are used in show windows or the like, but my improvements are equally applicable to sashes for holding plates of small size and light weight.

The object of my improvements is to provide means of the class specified of simple construction, efiicient in operation, easily installed and easily dismantled for removing the plate when desired.

With these ends in view the preferred embodiment of my improvements is illustrated in the drawings accompanying this specification wherein-- Figure 1 is a perspective. view showing a sash portion embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a detail of my improvements and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a further detail thereof. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a portion of one of the members of my device. Fig. 5 is a vertical section illustrating a modification of my improvements.

Before describing the invention in detail I desire to have it understood that the invention is not limited to the particular construction and arrangement of parts which I have illustrated and shall hereinafter describe, and that various changes may be made in the mechanism without departing from the spirit or scope of the inventlon, and that the phraseology which I employ is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.

While I have illustrated in the principal view, Fig. 1, only a short portion of a sash embodying my improvements and that portion particularly adapted for use one window sill it will be understood that my improvements are equally adapted for use on the jambs and lintel of'the window.

In their preferred embodiment my imrovements comprise a plurality of moldmgs preferably two in number and preferably of metal. The first and principal molding, 2, may be of some convenient shape generally conforming to a 0 form. For use on the sill portion of my improved sash and if desired for use on the other portions as well I preferably provide said molding with an upper depressed portion 3 forming a gutter for the reception of moisture from the plate andsaid gutter is perforated at in tervals as at 4 for permitting water to flow therethrough to within the molding. Said molding is provided with a front flange 5 for engagement with the plate 6 to be sup ported. Parallel with said flange 5 is back wall 7 for engagement with the sill heel 8. Said molding is further provided with base portion 9 preferably at right angles to back wall 7 and for engagement with sill 10. The front portion 11 of said base 9 may be bent upwardly and outwardly for the reception thereunder of another member of my improved sash. Said portion 11 may be provided with channels as 30 for the passage of any water which may settle on its base 9. In addition to holes 4 in the gutter portion of molding 2 I provide other holes 12 for the passage of clamp screws 13 for purposes hereinafter described.

For convenience of construction I preferably form molding 2 of such thickness of sheet metal as may be rolled or drawn to the desired form. F or aifording added strength and internal support to said molding and for other purposes referred to hereinafter I provide one or more blocks, 14;, shown in position in Fig. 1 and detached in Fig. 2, also of G shape and generally conforming in outer profile with the inner profile of molding 2. Said block 14 is provided in its plate abutment or top flange 15 with tapped hole 16 for the reception of screw 13 and in its upright flange 18 with one or more screw holes 19 for the re ception of screws 20 for securing said block and molding to sill heel 8. It will be obvious that molding 2 is also provided with holes 21 through its back wall 7 for the passage of screws 20. Said block 14 is further provided with one or more holes 22 in its lower flange for thepassagc of screws 23 respectively. Said screws 23 may be employed for holding my improved sash in position relatively to sill 10 when said sill is unprovided with heel piece 8. Molding 2 is provided with holes in its bottom flange 9 for the passage of screws 23.

F or securing the plate 6 in place I provide one or more clamp members 24 preferably of L shaped cross section and preferably of about the same length as their coacting blocks 14. Said clamps and blocks are provided with coacting portions, as seat 25 of clamp 24, engaging rib 26 of block 14,

whereby said clamp may rock on said block.

Clamp 24 is provided with upstanding member 27 for gripping the glass nlateor moldingor both interposed therebetween and with foot 28 for engagement with screws 13 of block 14. Said foot may be provided with seat 29 for the reception of said screws 13., v

My second or front molding 31 may be also approximately C shaped and comprises body portion 32, preferably of pleasing design such as the ogee shape shown, termi-z nating at its upper edge in downwardly reaching flange 33 interposed between glass 6 and upstanding member 27 of clamp 24. The lower end of saidmolding terminates in inwardly reaching flange 34 for entrance under foot or front portion 11 of molding 2. Body portion 32 of front molding 31 is provided with scuppers 35 respectively opposite channels 30 of molding 2 for ventilation and whereby water is permitted egress from my improved sash. The described provisions for ventilation and for drainage of water may if desired be omitted from those portions of my improved sash which are employed for lintel and jamb members.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that by making molding 2 of sufiicient strength and incorporating therein some of the features of block 14, said block may be omitted as shown in Fig. 5. Therein 1 have shown hole 36 threaded for screw 13 and have provided base 9 with rib 37 correspond ing with rib 26 of block 14. It will also be obvious that clamp 24 and molding 31 could if desired be formed in one piece as illustrated in said Fig. 5. This modification however involves some features which are not as convenient as the preferred embodiment of Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive.

My improved device may be installed and operated as follows: A sufiicient number of blocks 14 are slid into place within molding 2 and arranged so that the

screw holes

19, 22 of said blocks are in line with the corresponding screw holes in molding 2. Thereupon screws 21 or 23 or both are screwed into place in sill heel 8 and sill 10 respectively thus holding said molding and blocks securely in position. These parts having been positioned on sill, jambs and lintel, the plateof glass 6 is inserted with its lower edge resting if desired on spaced supportin blocks preferably two in number, not siown but well known in the art, arranged between blocks 14 and resting on the inner face of molding base 9. Clamp screws 13 having been started into tapped holes 16 in the blocks, 14, clamps 24 are put into position in engagement with blocks 14 and screws 13 are screwed down to engagement with seats 29 of clamps 24 whereby said clamps are urged to engage said plate 6, thereby holding that plate temporarily in place against molding 2 or rocker bearing block 14. Thereupon all the clamp screws 13 on one edge of said plate are slacked sufiiciently to permit upstanding portions 27 of said clamps to be backed away from the plate to permit theentrance of downreaching flange 33 of molding 31, which flange is then inserted between clamp portion 27 and plate 6 and lower flange 34 of said molding is inserted under foot 11 .of molding 2'. Then clamp. screws 13 are tightened down, rocking clamps 24 on members 14 respectively and clamping moldi'n 31, plate 6 and molding 2, snugly together Fig. 1). vThe other edges of plate 6 are then proceeded with in the same manner whereby said plate is securely heldyin position on all its edges.

1 claim:

1. In a device of the class specified the combination of two plate clamping members, a rocker-bearingon one 'member, a coacting seat on the other member, means for securing the bearing member to 'a window frame, and means for rocking the other member on the bearing member for clamping the plate against the bearing member.

2. In a device of the class specified the combination of a pair of C shaped moldings arranged face to face, two late clamping members therebetween, a roc er-bearing on one member, a coacting seat on the other member, means for securing the bearing member to a. window frame and means for rocking the other member on:the bearing member for clamping the plate against the bearing member, and means accessible from without. said moldings for operating said clamping means.

3. In a device of the class specified the combination of a molding. a rocker-bearing block seated in said molding and having a plate abutment, means for securing said molding and block to a. window frame, a clamp member having a seat for engagement with said rocker-bearing block and having a plate engaging portion, and means in engagement with said block for urging the plate engaging portion of said clam member toward the plate abutment of said bearing block. I

4. In a device of the class specified the combination of a molding, a rocker-bearing block seated in said molding and having a plate abutment, means for securing said molding and block to a window frame, a clamp member having a seat for engagement with said bearing block and having an upstanding portion, and means in engagement with said'block for urging the upstanding portion of said clamp member toward the plate abutment of said bearing block.

5. In a device of the class specified the combination of a moldinghaving a plate engaging portion, va rocker-bearing block seated in said molding and having a late abutment, means for securing said mo ding and block to a window frame, a clamp member having a seat for engagement with said bearing block and having an upstanding portion, a second molding avin an upper flange for engaging a plate, an means in engagement with said block for urging-the upstanding portion of said clamp member 15 toward the plate abutment of said bearing block to clamp a plate between the upper flange of said second molding and said plate engaging portion of said first molding.

Signed at New York, in the county of 20 New York and State of New York, this 15 day of May, 1913, beforetwo subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN S. CRANE.

Witnesses:

CHAS. W. LA RUE, ARTHUR FmsoH.