US1297195A - Fastener for hinged structures. - Google Patents

Description

R. A. LIPHNCOTT 61 E. F. BILLSON.

FASTENER FOR HINGED STRUCTURES.

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) Specification bf Letters Patent. Patented B13 11,1919

Application filed October 1, 1918. Serial No. 256,411.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knoWn that we, ROY ALs'raN LIPPIN- GOLIT, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at 395 Collins street, Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia, and EDWARD FIELDER BrLLsoN, a subject of the King oflGreat Britain and Ireland, &c.; residing at :3951 Collins street, Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Com monwealth of Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Hinged Structures; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention covers means for adjusting and fixing or fastening hinged structures uch as casement windows, especially those opening outward and fitted with a screen, shutter or other element through which part of the adjusting device extends to allow the window or the like to be opened or closed and held where desired without disturbing the screen, shutter, or other element. The said hinged structure is hereinafter called the window, for-brevity.

In the drawings herewith Figure 1 is a plan of one form of the casing of our fastener; Fig. 2 a horizontal section of that casing; Fig. 3 a side elevation-of a casing and part of its rod and rod fixing means. Fig. 4 shows a sectional side elevation of our fastener relatively to a screen, but with part of its rod omitted. Fig. 5 is an end view of the fastener the left side of the easing being in section through the middle of the casing, and the right side in section through the right hand part of the casing in Fig. 3. The outer end of the rod is shown upwardly extended. Figs. 6 and 7 are on a smaller scale, andshow our fastener in plan view with the window in its closed, and in its open, position respectively.

In these drawings A is a window. B a screen, and C indicates any window sill, stool, or like base to which the base plate of our fastener will be fixed. 1 is a hinge plate attached to window A, and 2 a hinge pin connecting plate 1 to the end of a fastener rod, bar, or tubeshown as a rod 3- which passes through a casing 4.

The said casing is rotatable relatively to the base plate 5, which is screwed down or otherwise fixed to the an or the like c.. 5 7

arev screw holes. The rod is provided in some cases with means by which to (especially' when the Window is closed) prevent undue projection of the rod into the room or. soon, as it is found that a longhori-zon tally projecting rod has many disadvantages. Thus the rod may be telescopic, but weshow by way of example a hinge -or joint 3 in the rod. There may be a,plurality ofthese hinges; as a result the rod end may be swung (for example upward) as at 3 in Fig[ 5.

As one means of making casing 4'rotatable we show the base plate 5 flanged inwardly at 5 to provide a keeper rim over an edge 6 of a plate or suitable member 6 which is fixed'as by screws 6 to form the underside of casing 4. Part of the casing body has a cylindrical outer wall 4 occupying a recess or part of a recess B in the screen B to prevent draft and to exclude dust, insects, and so on, as in every position which the rotatable body assumes it will sufiiciently occupy the screen recess to cause such exclusion. The screen is not necessarily located with its aperture inclosing one side of the casing as shown. Casing 4 is apertured to have any suitable internal guide'and bearing surfaces 7 for the rod 3. whereby as the window is opened or closed that rod slides through the aperture. The casing is provided with suitable means to fix the rod so that the window can be held in any desired position.

As an example a finger nut 8 is shown. engaging the shank 9 of a gripping member which is movable to fix rod 3 or to release it as required.

This gripping member is shown formed as an eye 10 in which rod 3 is a loose fit. The finger nut 8 (or a washer under it) bears on casing 4, and rotation of the nut raises the eye till the latter grips the rod tightly. 4 is aslot in casing 4 to allow of assembling the parts, and 4 is a hole for shank 9. If iti's desired to have a fastening with which persons cannot so easily tamper, a plain nut can be substituted for the finger nut, or other means may be used to prevent the rod sliding.

Operating member 3 on sliding or moving through the part of easing 4 it engages rotates that casing, which continuously keeps aperture B closed in obstruction B, contiguone to the hinged structure to which memher 3 is pivotally connected.

Having described this invention What we claim Letters Patent for is 1. Controlling means for swinging closures, comprising in combination av swinging closure and its casing, a rod pivoted to the closure and provided with a notch, a casting pivotally mounted on the casing, said casting having a cylindrical body and an extension projecting therefrom, the casting having a rod receiving opening extendingtherethrough and a notch which communicates with the opening, an eye mounted in the extension and provided with a threaded stem, the eye being seated in the notch in the extension and adapted to engage the notch in the rod and the threaded stem passing through the extension, and a lock nut engaging the threaded extension.

2. Controlling means for swinging closures, comprising in combination a swinging closure and its casing, a rod pivoted to the closure and provided with a notch, a casting having an annular flange and an adjacent annular groove, a fixed annular flange on the casing to engage in the annular groove to provide a pivotal connection for the casting, the casting having a cylindrical body portion and an extension through which the Z rod passes, and means carried-by the eXten-t sion to lock the rod in adjusted position.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

ROY ALSTAN LIPPINCOTT. EDWARD FIELDER BILLSON.

flopies' 0:3 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G.

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