US1260110A - Adjusting means for skylights, &c. - Google Patents

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C. 0. WHITNELL.

ADJUSTING MEANS FOR SKYLIGHTS, &c.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23.19l6.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

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C. 0. -WHITNELLl ADJUSTING MEANS FOR SKYLI GHTS, Gac.

APPLlcATxoN FILED om. 23` 191s.

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CHARLES 0. WHITNELL, OF KING-SLEY, IOWA.

ADJ' USTING MEANS FOR SKYLIGHTS, &C.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Continuation in part of application Serial No. 97,369, filed May 13, 1916. This application filed. October 23, 1916. Serial No. 127,287.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. Wrirr- NELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kingsley, in the county of Plymouth and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjusting Means for Skylights, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to means for raising and supporting skylights and the like; and it contemplates the provision of improved means for the purpose, designed more especially for use in the skylight structure constituting the subject of my contemporary application iiled May 13, 1916, Serial Number 97 ,369, of which this application is, in part, a continuation.

The present invention in all of its details will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1, is a transverse section showing the application of one embodiment of my invention and also showing the skylight in closed position.

Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to Fig. 1, and showing the skylight supported in its open position.

Fig. 3 is a view like Fig. 1 of a modification.

Fig. 4 is a plan of the said modification.

The illustrated embodiment of my invention in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a base in which is an opening surrounded by an upstanding rectangular liange 2, and hinged at et to said flange 2 is a skylight 1, that is `designed to be swung upwardly and downwardly on the flange 2 of the base. The said skylight 1 in general may be of any suitable construction. In accordance with my present invention it is equipped with a longitudinal central bar 16. The said bar 16 is spaced from the skylight and is provided with arms at its end through the medium of which it is fiXedly connected with the skylight. Receiving and movable on the said bar is the eye 18 of a vertically swinging arm 17. The said arm 17 is carried at one end of a horizontal rock-shaft 10 which is journaled in a bearing 19 on the base flange 2, and at its opposite end the said shaft merges into an arm 20 which, in turn, termina-tes in a handle 21. By virtue of this construction, it will be manifest that when'the parts are relatively arranged as shown .in Fig. 2, the arm 17 will serve to maintain the swinging section or skylight in. raised position and without liability of said Section casually falling. This is due to the fact that the arm 17 brings np against the arm of the bar 16 remote from the hinge as clearly shown in Fig. 2. When, however, the handle 21 is pressed toward the right in Fig. 2, the swinging section or skylight will be lowered to its closed position and will be controlled incidental to the downward movement so as to preclude the possibility of breakage. It will also be manifest that when the swinging section or skylight is in its closed position and it is desired to open the same, for Ventilating purposes, it is simply necessary to apply suiiicient effort to swing the handle 21 in Fig. 2 toward the left, whereupon the swinging section will be raised to and secured in position shown in said figure.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the skylight or swinging section la is equipped with two bars 16a. The said bars 16a are spaced from, and fixedly connected through end arms to the skylight, and are disposed in eyes 18aon the vertically swinging arms 17l of a horizontal rock-shaft 10a. The said rock-shaft is journaled in bearings 19a on the upstanding iiaiige 2a of the base, and is equipped with a handle 20a. The operation of this construction is similar to the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and need not, therefore be reiterated.

It will be noted from the foregoing that in each of the embodiments of my invention, the means employed for moving the skylight is extremely simple and inexpensive, and yet when the skylight of swinging section is adjusted to its raised position, there is no liability of the skylight or section tending-to move downwardly until the adjusting means is properly manipulated.

It will also be noted that in both embodiments of my invention the permanent connection of the eye on the arm of the rockshaft to the bar on the skylight permits of the adjusting means being utilized to hold the skylight in closed position.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

The herein described skylight construction comprising a base traine hailingY an opening and an upstandingflange surrounding said opening, a skylight hinged at one end 'to the outer side of said base flangeand@ constructed and arranged to Close over the same, a horizontally-,disposed bearing xed to the inner Side of the base flange and a1*- ranged parallel Itofth'e hinge 0f the -Skylight,f a bai' extending longitudinally of andpar-- allel to and spaced from the skylight and havingrend arms fixed theretoysaidbar beingldisp'osed at rightf-angles to'said hingev andbearing, andf-a horizontal -rockfshatjournaled'inaid-floearin'gand having an angularly-dieposed f handle and also having an angularly-disposed arm extending in an .oppositeldireotion;to the handle and on the end of Which is an" eye permanently oonneotedWith-,and:receiving and movable on the bar of the kylight; the latter arnibeing arrangedto bring up against .that arm of the bar remote from the hinge and Securely maintain the skylight inraisedpositlon. f

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