US157224A - Improvement in window-casings - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE WILLIAM J. ROSS, OF WEST BOYLSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINDOW-CASINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,224, dated November 24, 1874; application tiled March 30, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Ross, of

' West Boylston, in the county of Worcester' and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window Frames or Casings; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specication, and in which- Figure l represents a vertical section on line B C, Fig. 2, of so much of a windowframe and one of the sashes as is necessary to illustrate my present invention. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section through the window casing and sash on line A B, Fig. l; and Figs. 3 and 4 represent opposite views of portions of the window-casing on one side, as will be hereafter more fully described.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

My invention is designed to obviate the diiiiculties and objections incident to the present modes of making the window frames and casings for the purpose of permitting the window-sash to be removed when desired, and also for the insertion ofthe weights and cords, and for the adjustment of the same when necessary; and consists in the use, for the purposes aforesaid, in window frames or casings,'of a removable section, having its upper extension charnfered off on the inner side, so that it can be inserted when the sash is not entirely raised, in conjunction with an overhanging inclined cut in the casing tting a corresponding inclined cut on the removable section, the parting bead forming a portion of said removable section, all as herein described. A In the drawings, the parts marked A and B represent the lower and upper sash of a window, and the parts marked C D the sides of the window-frame, which, in this case, constitute the side casings and thepartin g beadsthat is, the parts C D are cut or molded upon their inner sides, with proper grooves for the window-sash to work in, with tongues or parting beads a between them, thus dispensing with separate pieces or tongues a, and also separate pieces for the inside casings to hold the inner sash in place, as shown at b b.

By this mode of construction the parts referred to can be made and finished in a much more finished and perfect manner, while saving the expense of screws and other fastenin gs usually employed for securing the parts in place, especially theparts marked b b.

Upon each side of the lower sash separatey sections E E are made to t into corresponding recesses cut out of the window frame and casing, as indicated in the drawings. The upper ends of said parts are made beveling to lit under corresponding shoulders, or overhanging inclined cuts f on the xed parts of the casing, whereby, when the lower ends of the parts E E are secured, said removable sections will be held tightly in place. The lower ends of the parts E E may be held in plac'e by a screw, as shown at c, 0r by pins, as shown at e. the sections E are chamfered oft' on the inside, as shown at g, so that they may be inserted in place when the sash is not entirely raised.

To remove the sash it is only necessary to run up the lower sash, and then remove one of the pieces E, after which the sash is lowered and one end allowed to enter the space from which the part E was taken, when the other end of the sash will slip by the projection b on the opposite side. The upper sash is removed in a similar manner, after the lower sash has been removed, by simply drawing it down.

It will be understood that a section of the parting bead a is made with, and forms a part of, the detachable piece E.

Weight pocket-holes F are made in the sides of the pieces or wndow-jambs G D, whereby, when the sections E E are removed, convenient access can be had to the weights.

Fig. 3 shows an inside view of one of the removable pieces E and a section of the casing to which it is attached; and Fig. 4 represents an outside view of a section of the oasing or frame, showin g one of the pocket-holes F.

By making the sides of the frame or casing The upper end or extension of` all in one pieceI can make grooves d upon the outside ot' the sash, in which to arrange window-screens, so that they will not have to be removed when the Windows are raised, 10W- ered, or removed.

Those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs cannot fail to appreciate the great practical value and importance of my invention, both as regards the expense in tting the sash-holding devices in place, and the convenience in removing the sash from the Window-frame, which can always be done Without marring any of the parts, and my invention is applicable as Well to the cheapest as the most expensive buildings.

Having thus described my improvements in window frames or casngs, what I claim therein as new, and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The removable section E, having its upper extension chamfered ofi' on the inner side, so that it can be inserted When the sash is not entirely raised, in conjunction With an overhanging inclined cnt, f, tting a corresponding inclined cut on the removable section, the parting bead forming a portion of said removable section, as and for the purposes shown and described.

WILLIAM J. ROSS.

Witnesses:

Tiros. H. DODGE, EDWIN E. MOORE.

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