US1538025A - Reversible window - Google Patents

Description

M. P. COM'ERFORD ET AL- May19, 192s.

REVERSIBLE WINDOW Filed Nov. 11, 1922 Patented May 19, 1925.

UNITED STATES PA ENT..-oFFrcE.

MICHAEL ,ra'rnrox coarse-roan AND HENRY B. rananrn'or OTTAWA, on'rARro,

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REVERSIBLE WINDOW.

Application filedNovember 11,1922. Serial No. 600,302;

.To all whom it may concern:

a railway cars, and houses where it is necessary to clear the same of frost or any other view-obstructing matter that may adhere to the outside of the panes.

An object of our invention is to so con struct a window that it may be reversed and still be airtight in its closed position.

A further object is to devise a reversible window wherein the cleaning of the outside of the panes is readily done without evertion and without risk of breaking the glass.

In the drawing forming part of this description,

Figure 1 is a transverse section of a window frame showing the reversible window in closed position.

Fig. 2 is front view of a house window constructed with our invention, the lower section illustrating the window closed in the direction opposite tothat shown in the upper section.

Referring to Fig. 1, 1 is the window frame, having a. chamfered portion 2. This frame is mounted as usual in an opening, which in the present case is a brick veneer structure 3, as shown. A window sash 4, preferably made the size of the opening, is pivoted vertically by means of pivots 5 and 5, mounted respectively on the edge of the upper and lower window rail, and sockets 6 and 6 mounted centrally on the top and bottom of the frame. The sash is provided with a cleat 7, fastened centrally on the edge thereof and extending from a point near the pivot 5 and around the side rail to a point on the other half of the lower rail close to the pivot 5 This cleat is of a thickness suflicient to fill the chamfered portion 2. The other half of the sash is provided with a pair of parallel grooves 8, into which is mounted a packing tube 9. This tube extends fro-m pivot 5 around the edges of the side rail to pivot 5 on the. lower rail. This double packing is intended for the-sealing of the window on both sides of the frame when the same is reversed. V

In the application of the window to an automobile, serving as a wind shield, the

mounting and the construction of theframe the same as that described excepting that the packing 9 may be dispensed with.

In the application of our windowto a locomotive cab, it'may be remarked that the construction answers admirably for the pur-, pose as the engineer, by merely reversing the window, has access to the obstructed side of the glass and can readily clean the same. N

In the foregoing description, the mounting of the window has been described as consisting of pivots fitted into the sockets but it will be understood that any mountings which would'cause the window to re-, volve would be suitable and we lay no claims to this construction.

It will also be understood that the cleat serving as a stop for one side of the window may be shaped in different manners and that the packing may also be changed to suit various applications. e

We, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the construction illustrated, but we wish it understood that the description is merely intended to illustrate the invention and that the spirit thereof is enunciated in the following claims.

Claims:

1. In a reversible window, a frame having a continuous chamfered recess adjacent its inner edge, a sash in said frame pivoted so as to swing therein on a arc of 180, a cleat mounted over one-half of the edge of the frame on one side of the pivots, and a packing strip mounted on the opposite half thereof.

2. In a reversible window, a frame having a continuous chamfered recess adjacent its.

inner edge, a sash normally closing the opening in said frame and pivoted therein to swing through an arc of 180 from one fully closed position to another, a cleat mounted centrally of the edge of one half of the sash and packing means mounted on the edge of the other half thereof, said cleat and said packing disposed on opposite sides of the sash pivoting means and normally engaged respectively in the chamfered' recess side of the pivots, and packing strips l0 and with the inner face of the Window mounted parallel to each side on the edge of frame. d f 1 the remaining half of the sash.

3; In a reversible Win 0W, a rame iaving v a continuous recess adjacent its inner edge, 7 MICHAEL PATRICK COMERFORD- asash mounted in said frame and pivoted HENRY B so as to swing on a circle of 180, said sash 7 In the presence of: having a cleat projecting from the center J. P. GABON, of its edge along half of its contour on one M. BLACK.

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