US1287673A - Metal door and window construction. - Google Patents

Description

H. R. GOGAY.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB-26,1912.

1 ,281673. Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

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. Application filed February 26, 1917-; Serial No. 150,958;

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This invention relates to metal door and window construction designed to be placed in a wall opening. Specifically, this invention relates to a means whereby the jambs may be properly spaced apart and securely held in such position, both during the erecting period and after the same has been com pletely installed.

To this end, my invention consists essentially of a spreader structure in combination with the jambs of such type that the jamb structure may be adjusted as to height to obtain the proper door opening and also be securely held in position both during the time of application and afterward.

The novel features of this invention will appear from the accompanying detailed description of the accompanying sheet of drawings in which similar characters of ref erence designate corresponding parts, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing a door frame in its finished state,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section taken through the lower portion of this door frame, showing the manner in which it is anchored in position by the use of my invention,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and,

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view in perspective showing my improved type of spreader element.

In these figures, my invention is shown as being used in connectionwith a door struc ture in which the numeral 1 designates the jamb. In the present structure the trim 2 is shown as forming an integral portion of the jambbut, it will be understood that this trim may be either integrally formed or sepa rately formed, as may be desired. In the manufacture of these frames, it is essential that the jamb should be somewhat higher than the desired door opening 3 and this is shown particularly clear in Fig. 2 in which the reference numeral 4 designates the subfloor or main floor support of any desired character and the numeral 5 designates the surface floor specifically, ln'this figure, the jambs 1 are shown asprojecting beneath the finished surface ofthe floor 5 and also that th -s pe spr ader e ement 6,1 s c rely anchored in position to the sub-floor 4 by means, of the bolts shown at 7 The two. up-

standing legs 8 of this U-shaped spreader element are provided with a double row of apertures 9 spaced vertically from each other as is shown, The lower, end of each leg of the jamb is provided with a pair of apertures designed to register with an horizon- I tal pair of apertures .9. When tie proper door opening has been determined, the jambs are set in position and the bolts 10 made to pass through the registering apertures to securely fasten them in their proper position of adjustment. It will be noted that these apertures are located below the finished floor level so that the bolts are all hidden from view and also that the upstanding legs 8 are located on the inside face of each of the jambs, so thatafter the structure has been assembled, this spreader and anchoring means is permanently hidden from view. The spreader is also preferably reinforced or stifiened as, for instance, by the channel element shown.

What I claim, is:

1. The combination with a jamb longer than a desired wall opening and having the lower extremities thereof apertured and terminating beneath the floor level, of a spreader and jamb supporting structure including the pair of vertically disposed leg members operable to extend co-adjacent to the lower extremities of said jamb and having a plurality of vertically spaced apertures formed therein, and fastening elements passing through the apertures in said jamb exties to adjustably secure said jamb to said spreader structure.

3. The combination with a U-shaped jamb formed to embrace the Wa1ls of a door opening, the free extremities ofsaid jamb termi-- nating beneath the 'fioor level of said opento be longer than a desired all opening and having the lower extremities thereof aper- 15 .tured and terminating beneath the floor level, of a base member securely anchored beneath said floor level, and means formed with said base member to eifect the support in presence 0 two witnesses.

HARRY R. GO GAY.

Witnesses:

WALTER E. L. BooK, C. C. SHEPHERD.

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

r Washington, D. G."

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