US1211860A

US1211860A - Antirattling device.

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Publication number: US1211860A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Kirby Jr
Original assignee: Dayton Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: Dayton Manufacturing Co
Priority date: 1916-06-17
Filing date: 1916-06-17
Publication date: 1917-01-09
Anticipated expiration: 1934-01-09

Description

J. KIRBY, JR.

'ANTIRATTLING DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED JUNE I7. I916- 1,211,860. Patented Jan. 9,1917.

WITNESSES I I; "jn INVENTOR. M W

UNIT TATS PAT JOHN KIRBY, JR., OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DAYTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

ANTIRAT'ILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that f, JOHN Kinny, Jr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, county of Montgomery, and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in antirattling devices for use more particularly in connection with window-sashes in railway-cars and other moving vehicles, and of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to the .class of window devices in which spring actuated rollers are employed to prevent rattling of sashes when loosely fitted in their guideways, by forcing the sashes closely against the guide-strips at one side thereof, thereby preventing rattling of the sashes and excluding dust, cold air, etc.

The principal object of my invention is to produce an antirattling device of its character which shall combine maximum efficiency with minimum cost of production, and it consists in the combination and construction of parts herewith described and claimed at the end of this specification, in which reference is had to the accompanying drawings and to the reference numerals marked thereon which indicate corresponding parts in all the figures thereof.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 represents a broken perspective view of one of the upper corners of a car sash in operative position in its frame work and showing my improved device mounted thereon. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the assembled device detached from the sash. Fig. 3 view of one of the rollers in position in its supporting frame. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of the roller-frames which carry the rollers, the roller being removed therefrom. Fig. 5 represents a cross section through line X X of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 6 is an end view of Fig. 2.

Referring to the said drawings, 1 designates a vertical rail and 2 the top, horizontal, rail of a window sash, 3 represents the outer guide-strip, 4: the inner guide-strip and 5 the post forming one side of the window opening, the post 5 together with the guide-strips 3 and 4 forming a channel or guideway for the sash.

6 represents aforwardly inclined springactuated roller-frame comprising a single piece of spring wire formed with what I is a plan will describe as, parallel sections 7, spaced apart at 8 to provide a receptacle for a roller 9, which spacing is accomplished by a transverse section 10, a coil 11 being as more clearly shown in Fig. 2. In each of the parallel sections 7 there is also formed a loop 12 to receive the ends of pintles 13,

which for convenience in assembling I prefer to make of tubular form, upon which the roller, 9, rotates, the ends of the pintles being soldered, or riveted, or both, to the parallel sections 7.

14 represents 'a base-plate which is mortised into the edgeof the vertical sash rail and secured thereto by means of screws which pass through holes 15.

to and between the inner ends of these facemembers the rollers operate in a suitable recess 17, cut in the sash.

On the under side of each of the facemembers 16, and preferably formed integral therewith, there is provided a small stirrup 18 whose function is to receive the free ends of the wire frame 6 which are secured therein and to the face-member by soldering, and when thus permanently attached the forward movement of the roller is limited by the face-member, against the under side of which the wire frame bears when the device is detached from the sash, as best shown in Fig. 2. When the device is mounted on a sash and the latter is in operative position in its guide-ways the forward movement of the roller is limited by the guide-strip against which it is forced by the spring action of the wire frame and which normally is forward, as more clearly shown in Fig. 1.

By referring to the drawings in connection with the foregoing description of my invention it will be obvious that while a pair of rollers are shown and described the device is equally well adapted to the use of a single roller and supporting frame if and when one is deemed to be sufiicient, in which case but one face-member need be employed and the base-plate may be correspondingly shortened; that the device may be applied to either the inner or outer side of the ver- The baseplate 1 1 1s provided at each end with facemembers 16 disposed at right angles theretical sash rail and at either or both edges and at any desired location between the top and bottom rails of the sash, or to either the inner or outer guide-strip, in which latter case the rollers would bear against the adjacent face side of the sash. It will also be apparent that the device combines the features of' substantiability, efficiency and minimum cost of production and that the details of construction may be departed from without departing from the scope of my invention.

I claim 1. In an anti-rattling device, the combination of a face-member, a roller-frame secured at one end thereof to the face-member and consisting of a single piece of spring wire formed to constitute two parallel side members and a transverse member located approximately midway of the ends of the frame and by which the side members are spaced apart to receive a roller, a loop formed in each of the side members at the free ends thereof, a pintle whose ends engage said loops and are secured therein to the side members, and a roller mounted on the pintle and adapted to revolve thereon between the side members forward of the transverse member.

2. In an anti-rattling device, the combina tion of a face-member, a roller-frame secured at one end thereof to the face-mem ber and consisting of a single piece of spring wire formed to constitute two parallel side members and a transverse member located approximately midway of the ends of the frame and by which the side members are spaced apart to receive a roller, a loop formed in each of the side members at the free ends thereof, a pintle whose ends engage said loops, and are secured therein to the side members, a roller mounted on the pintle and adapted to revolve thereon between the side members forward of the transverse member, a coil formed in each side member to impel a forward movement to the frame, and means for limiting said movement.

3. A new article of manufacture comprising a roller-frame for an anti-rattling de vice consisting of a single piece of spring wire formed to constitute two parallel side members and a transverse member located approximately midway of the ends of the frame and by which the side members are a spaced apart to receive a roller, each of said side members having a loop adapted to receive a pintle for supporting a roller and a coil to impel aforward spring action to the frame.

JOHN KIRBY, JR. Witnesses:

N. EMMoNs, Jr., CLAIR R. ROLAND.

Copies of this natent may be obtained; for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.