US1097108A - Sash-holder. - Google Patents

Description

J. J. PRUELL.

SASH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1a, 1913.

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JOSEPH JOHN PRUELL, OF WALPOLE MASSACHUSETTS.

SASI-I-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Application filed September 18, 1913. Serial No. 790,486.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J osnri-r JOHN PRUELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Walpole, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to builders hardware, and more especially to sash holders; and the object of the same is to produce an extremely simple and yet very durable device of this character capable of application to the meeting rails of the sashes of any window now in common use.

This object is carried out by the construction set forth in the following specification in detail, and shown in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is an inside elevation of a window showing one of these holders applied to the lower sash thereof; Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section through said holder, with the parts canted or tipped so as to release the sash; Fig. 8 is a plan view; Figs. 41-

and 5 are plan views of the blanks fromwhich the two sheet metal members of this device are made.

In the drawings the letter F designates a frame and S the sash of a window, here the lower sash, slidable therein, and on whose upper cross rail this improved holder is mounted. The holder consists of a base plate which is substantially U-shaped in end elevation and cut from the blank best seen in Fig. 4 and bent on the dotted lines therein. In its finished condition it comprises a flat bottom plate 1, two upstanding triangular ears 2 having alined holes 3, and a trough-like extension 2 at the outer edges of said base and ears. The other or rocking member of this device is cut from the blank best seen in Fig. 5 and comprises a plate 4t which constitutes the face of the holder, a triangular side portion 5 having a hole 6, and a second triangular side portion 7 having a hole 8 opposite the hole 6 and continued beyond it into an arm 9 whose upper edge is bent inward into a thumb piece 10. Through the holes in the two members passes a rivet 11, and the same is surrounded by a tubular sleeve 12 which keeps the sides of the rocking member separated. A coiled wire spring has one end 13 resting on the bottom 1 of the base member, its coil 14 passlng around the sleeve, and its other end carried upward and bent forward at 15 so as to pass through a hole 16 in one side 7 of the rocking member. Finally the face plate l of said member is given a slight bend or bulge as best seen in Fig. 1, and it stands on a curve which is somewhat eccentric to a circle drawn around the pivot.

The parts are preferably of metal, and those members which are shown in the blanks are stamped from sheet metal. The size and proportion and ornamentation are matters of no moment.

In operation the base member is secured by passing two screws downward through holes 1 in its bottom and into the top of the mid rail of the sash which is to carry the holder, care being taken to locate this member at such a point that the eccentric face of the rocking member will rest against the inside of the window frame F but theouter end of the extension will clear it. When now it is attempted to raise the sash, the eccentricity of said face plate prevents, because the rocking member turns on its pivot, which is the rivet, in a manner which will be clear. But a person inside the room may depress the thumb piece and thus tip the rocking member on its pivot so as to throw its face 4 out of cont-act with the frame F, and then the sash can be raised at will. On the other hand, a person outside.

the window can not raise the sash because he has no access to the thumb piece and can not depress it. The trough-like extension 2 extends under the outer end of the rocking member as best seen in Fig. 3, and renders it impossible for a person on the outside of the house to reach up through the crack between the sashes and turn that member with a thin instrument. It is possible that the spring might be omitted and the weight of the rocking member would throw it into active connection or contact with the inner face of the frame F, but I prefer to employ the spring.

Attention is directed to the fact that by turning the thumb piece inward so that in the finished article it stands between the side portions 5 and 7, the holder can be mounted at either the left side of the sash S as shown or at the right side as will be understood.

What is claimed as new is: A sash holder of the class described comsecurely engaged with one side wall of said additlonal member, the opposite end of said spring member bearlng on the bottom wall of said first mentioned member whereby to normally dispose said additional member to its ellective operating position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH JOHN PRUELL.

itnesses FRANK M. HILL, JosEPH W. DRYDEN.

Gopiesof this'patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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