US147130A

US147130A - Improvement in skylight-bars

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Publication number: US147130A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1891-02-03

Description

G. HAYES.

Skylight-Bars.

N0.l47,l30.

Patented Fe'b. 3,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEoEGE HAYES, or NEW YoEK, E. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKVLlGHT-BARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,130, datd February 3, 1874; application filed November 6, 1873.

CASE B.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HAYES, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Skylights, of which the following is a specilication:

'This invention relates to improvements in means for supporting and securing the `glass plates of skylights; and it consists in the einployment of supporting-bars, which are Vcomposed of a single piece of sheet metal, formed with gutters at their lower ends, and with shoulders at their upper ends for-supporting the glass plates, the same being retained in position by means of a cap-piece, which may be the upper termination of a stil-fening-plate inserted into a continuous channel or trough, form ed by bending the supporting-bar into the required shape; or said trough may be omitted,

'and the glass-retaining device be applied to the top ofthe bar.

In the accompanying drawing', Figures l and 2 are transverse sections of the supportingbar, with means for holding the glass plates in position.

I propose to lessen the cost of inaiuiiacture, and also the weight, ofthe bars A, whieheomprise the frame of a skylight, by making the same of a sheet-metal plate, which is bent in such a manner as to form vertical side walls, the lower ends of which are bent in an outward and upward direction, so as to constitute gutters a2, which are designed to serve as receptacles for condensed vapors and rain. The top of the bar, or the horizontal portion intervening between the side walls of the same, is made level or hat, as shown at a a, so as to form shoulders for supporting the ends of two adjacent glass sections, D, and the cent al portion of the bar A being depressed orbent so as to form a continuous channel or trough, el, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the glass-supporting shoulders a a being located at both sides of said trough. The glass plates, which rest upon the supporting-bar, are secured in position by means of a fastening device, which is designated by letters O in the various iigures. rlhe portion of the trough or channel al is to receive a strengthening or stiftening plate, B, and also to retain the lower portion of a pair of fastening-plates, C, the upper ends of which are capable of being turned down upon the ends of the glass plates D for securing the same in position, as shown in Fig. l. Instead of the solid stitening-plate for strengthening the glass -supporting bar, I may employ, as shown in Fig. 2, a doubled plate, C, or a pair of connected plates, the upper ends of which can be turned down upon the glass, said plate serving, in this instance, both as a stiii'ening medium and as a glass-retaining device.

The present invention is specially designed to furnish a glass-supporting bar which isl light and simple in construction, and easily manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a skylight, a glass-supporting bar, A, constructed of a single piece of metal bent into shape to formatrough, al, base gutter or glitters a2, and top glass-supporting shoulders a, combined with a suitable glass-retaining device, substantially as described.

v GEORGE HAYES. Witnesses ROBERT MATHIE, PETER KAUSCH.