US114592A

US114592A - Improvement in carriage-windows

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Publication number: US114592A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-05-09
Anticipated expiration: 1888-05-09

Description

CHARLES M. OBLENIS. Improvement in Carriage-Windows.

Patented May 9;]871.

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Letters Patent No. 114,592, dated May 9, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-WINDOWS;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may cancer-n Be it known that I, CHARLES M. OBLENIS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriages; and I do hereby declare that the following-is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

M This invention relates to improvements in carriages,

more especially of that kind known as calashes, which open at the top so as not to afford a support for the usual high doors in which vertically-sliding glasses are arranged, but the invention isapplicable also in some measure to other carriages and to street-cars.

The said invention consists in the application to the short doors of the above-named carriages of vertically-sliding glasses and supporting devices therefor of a novel character, for supporting the window in an elevated position when the two'parts of the 'top' are raised and connected at the top, all as hereinafter specified.

Figure l is a front elevation of a door constructed according to my improvement, and

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding A lashes, landaus, landaulettes, and other like carriages,

which doors are only ashigh as the top of the box sides of the carriage, which are usually the same in height as about half of the ordinary door, and do' not therefore afford any means of supporting glass lights when the cloth' tops are raised and connected.

Now, I propose to make these doors with hollow spaces B between the outside A and the inside, as in otherdoors, having lights for raising up to be supported in the open upper part of the door, and I also fit a glass light, E, together with a sash, F, therefor,

in the said hollow space to slide up and down; and I L, in the guide projects, 'by which to raise the guides by the raising of the sash.

The grooves are to allowthe sash to rise as far, before lifting the guides, as it is to extend above the guides when both are lifted, and to let the, sash fall after the guides have been arrested at the bottom, of the cavity B.

For holding these guides up, and also the sash, I provide a cover, M, for falling down upon the top of the door over the space through which the sash is lifted, and under the projections Non the guides.

This cover is hinged to the top of the door, and is to he provided with a spring for throwing it down as soon' as the sash and the projection N have risen above it.

When they are down this cover closes over the space, shutting the sash and guides out of view, and making a neat finish upon the top of the door.

In addition to' this cover, which must of necessity be short enough to fall between the guides K, I pro- .vide other short covers O,-to close down over. the

guides when let fall.

This cover which falls down over the top of the sash may be used in street-cars, omnibnses, and the like, to hold the sash up, instead of shifting the lower edges of the sash backward over the seat, as now provided for them, by which the space from which the sash is raised is left uncovered, whereby they present an unsightly appearance, and they become receptacles for small articles inadvertently dropped over them, especially by children.

I propose, therefore, to employ these covers in con- I nection with the sash and the doors or windows of such carriages as may have permanent guides and supports for the sash, as well as 'in connection with the same and the vertically-ad j u'stable guides and supports K, as here shown.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the vertically-adjustable guides and supports K, and the cover M or M O, with i the sash and the door, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the sash'and a door or window-frame having permanent guides and supports for the sash, of the cover M or M O, substantially as Atnx. F. ROBERTS.