US1605598A

US1605598A - Window

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Publication number: US1605598A
Application number: US13064A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edmund H Lunken
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-03-05
Filing date: 1925-03-05
Publication date: 1926-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-02

Description

WINDOW Filed March 5, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Q @To Ob :Ef 4' wwf/WUR: fmwz M M A. A /S/gi 5 A 7' 70/9/1/1c KS Patented Nov. 2, 1.926.

PATENT OFI-ica EDMUND H. LUNKEN, or HAR'rsDALn, NEW YORK.

WINDOW.

Application led March 5, 1925. Serial No. 13,064.

My invention relates to windows adaptable to wood or metal construction. My object is to provide an effective window, being economical, of attractive appearance, easy to install, and particularly susceptible to variations of ventilations. The window may be made to provide screen storage, and top or bottom ventilation.

In metal windows in vparticular the formation of weight boxes behind thetside Stiles, as in usual window construction, is

always a problem, because of corrosion. The

boxes are all enclosed except at the pulley orifices, and condensation therein is quite destructive. My window is preferably so constructed that the operation is accomplished by means of a counterweight in the form of a cross bar without the use of weight boxes.

My window, among other things, is limited to a single sash, but the frame is of the heightpf the wall into which it is set with the lower portion up to a desired sill heighttaken up by a transparent or opaque body, whichever 'ismost satisfactory. Thus a wall can be built using my window devices without studding or siding. y A

Also the upper portion of the frame will be filled with' a panel which may be articulated, if desired, to give extra ventilation.

Thus it is my object to provide a counterweighted sash without weight boxes in combination with sill pocket and at least partial overhead pocket, for a single sash,

thereby permitting full ventilation, a siim` ple manipulating bar, sim le installation of sashes by a frame exten ing from floor to ceiling, and if desired 'for screen housing.

I accomplish my objects by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In t-he drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the window without screens or sashes in place, said view taken as a central vertical section through sill and cap. l

Figure 2 is a like view of Figure 1 showing the screens and sashes in place.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is an elevation (fragmentary) taken from the inside of the window.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary section on the line 5-5 of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is an elevation showing the shiftable screen housing element, in lieu of a fixed one.

The Stiles of my window are in the form illustrated made of pieces of

wood

1, 1, although they may be made of metal formed up as channels or boxes to give proper rigidity. The stiles terminate in a sill 2, preferably at the floor line, and extendup to the ceiling of the room, where they-are connected, preferably, by a cap 2a.

Connecting the stiles at the bottom and held permanently in place is a plate 3, which may be formed of metal, wood, or plaster composition, and may be provided with a ground glass light. This panel is exposed to the outside of the building and will be made as a decorative item. It will be of the desired height for` safety within the room, which will bring its upper edge to a proper window sill line, in preferred form.

As an outside guide strip for the sliding sash I preferably mount a strip 4, which extends full width up to the upper portion of the window, where the top of the sashl will lie when closed, where the said strip is narrowed down as at 4a, to permit of the mounting of an upper transom window section, either fixed or hinged.l

Extending up from the sill 2 is a arting strip 5 against which the lower fixe plate 3 is mounted. This parting strip is made thicker, by the addition of an uppe'1 added section of strip material 6. The splice between the strip 4 and the strip 5 forms a slideway for a sliding sash having bottom rail 7, top rail 8, and side rails 9. There will be a suitable weather strip 10 on the outside of the upper rail, and a like strip 11 on the-inside of the lower rail.

I have indicated a push pin 12 and socket lplate 13 for locking the sash in position with its lower rail lapping the top of the plate 3, with the Weather strip 11 forming a seal at this point.

I have shown a hinged glass window 14 mounted on the stiles by means of a piano hinge 15 extending across the cap.A This window when closed is held in place by means of a push pin-16 engaging in a segnient shaped retaining bar 17. The bar 1f? dow is not a requisite, as it may be'ixed inV lace.

When the sliding sash is ushed'down, it

own flush .with the top of the plate 3. When it is moved up' a portion thereof will lie within the top or will preferably move clear transom window section of the frame.

The weight pulley devices are formed of the usual pulleys 18, mounted in housings 19. rIhe housings are' fixed at the upper ends of the 4stiles so that they abut thel inside edge of the strip portions 4t@ T'he upper portion of the portion 6, of the inner guidestrips, ends at the lower edge of lthe .pulleyhousings, and the extra thickness of these portions brings their edges flush with the sides of the said housings.

In` addition to the guides mentioned, and referring to an instance in which screens are used, I mount against the strip portions 6, an upper screen, or transom window 20, which is preferably mounted in placeby removable screws 21, engaging the strips 6 at each of the two Stiles.

I provide two

interspaced metal channels

22 and 23, on each stile which are laid with the outer channel 22 abutting the inner face of the parting stripv portions 5 and 6, and

' ending at the lower edge of the pulley l1ous ings. In case screens are not used the inner one of the channels is omitted, andthe top screen is omitted. Also the top. screen may be formed as the hinged element and made as a transom, and the upper transom window made iixed. To illustrate this is not believed to be necessary as it requires a mere shifting of the hinge from one point to another on the underside of the cap.

Mounted at the lower` portion of the frame, and preferably of the height of the plate 3 is a light plate 24 of plaster board, screening, canvas or whatever may be found desirable, which frame rests as a guide` in the space 25 between the two metal channels. Springs 26 at the side edges of this plate will hold it in adjusted position. When lowered this plate forms with `the plate 3 a pocket for the housings of the sliding screen.

The screen is illustrated at 27, and slides in the outer channel 22. It will be held in position in the usual manner, but a simple form of retaining member will be chains 28 suspended inthe channels from aboveand merely hooked into eyes 29 on the top of the screen.

channel. yWeight cords' pass from the ends of the bar up overthe pulleys and downto the corner of the top rail of the sliding sash.

A block 32 is placed in the channel at each side of the frame to engage the bar ends and hold the bar from being moved far enough down to jam the sliding sash up against the top of the window frame. The raising of the bar lowers the sash behind the panel.

The positioning of the bar, thus positions '1.-

the'sliding sash at any desired point to give top or; bottom ventilation.

It will be evident that departures from the precise stile guiding elements can readily be devised which will serve my purpose.

I am aware that sashes counterweighted by cross bars are old, but so far as I am ad- -vised no one has utilized this idea with a be employed, and the window lframe will not need to be so wide or else the sash, plate 3, and guide strips can be made wider.

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

1. A window comprising a frame, the lower portion of which is filled by a nonslidable weather excluding 'cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by a non-slidable weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members and another sliding closure for the space between said cross members, same being guided in the frame to take a position on the opposite side of the lower cross member vfrom the sash.

2. A window comprising a frame, the lower portion of which is filled by a weather excluding cross member, and the upper por tion of which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members, pulleys mounted with their bodies at right angles to the sliding sash, and a cross bar for counterweighting the sash. connected by cords with the sash, and guided for sliding in the said window frame.

i 3. A window comprism a frame, the

excluding cross member, and the upper portion of whichis likewise lill-ed by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the spacebetween said two cross members, said sash being so guided and the cross members so mounted that the sash slides outside of the lower member and inside of the upper member.

4. A -window comprising a frame, the lowcr portion of' which is filled by a weather excluding cross member, and the upper portion of' which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members, said lower member being of substantially the height of the sash and an additional means movable in the frame from a position inside the lower cross member and concealed from without thereby to a position of closing the opening between said cross members.

5. A window comprising a frame, the lower portion of which is filled by a weather,

excluding cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in 'said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members, said lower member being of substantially the height of thesash, and the frame arranged in the building so that its sill member sat thef'floor line of the room in such building and a sliding panel in said frame normally located adjacent to and of jhe shape and size of the lower cross memer. i

6. A window comprising a Iframe, the lower portion of which is filled by a weather excluding cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding Sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members, said frame being locatedso as to bring the lower edge of the lower cross member substantially to the floor line of a l room in which lthe frame is mounted, a screen l no located slidably in the frame, and an additional cross member in the upper portion of the frame against which the screen abuts, with its lower edge adjacent the-top of the lower cross member.

7. A window comprising a frame, the lower portion of which is filled by a weather excluding cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said lframe and adapted in one position to close the space between said two. cross members, an additional cross member in the lower portion of the frame to form a pocket with the first mentioned cross. member, and a screen mounted in the frame to slide into said pocket in one position thereof.

8. A window comprisin a frame, the lower portion of which is fil ed by a. weather excluding cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by'a weather in the lower portion of the frainefto form a pocket with the first mentioned cross member, and a screen mounted in the frame to slide into said pocket in one position thereot', and an additional cross member in the upper portion of the frame togfll the saine down to a line of juncture withvthe said screen, when same is raised with its lower edge in juxtaposition with the upper edge of the pocket so formed. l

9. A window comprising a'fi'ame, the lower portion of which is fill-ed by a weather excluding cross member, and the upper portion of which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, and a sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two cross members, an additional cross member in the lower portion of the Jframe to forma pocket with the first mentioned cross member, and a screen mounted in the frame to slide into said pocket in one position thereof', said additional cross member being slidably mounted in the said frame.

l0. A window comprising a frame, the

lower portion of which is filled by a weather 7 excluding cross member, and the upper portion ot' which is likewise filled by a weather excluding cross member, anda sliding sash guided in said frame and adapted in one position to close the space between said two sliding sash against the top of the window.'

l1. A window comprising a frame, the lower portion of same filled by a weather excluding cross member and the upper portion of saine filled by two spaced cross members, a sash and a screen slidable in said frame, both of 'same closing the opening between said members, and guided in the frame so as to wipe the lower cross member, and abut each one of the two spaced upper members.

12. A window comprisin a frame, the lower portion of same fille by a weather excluding cross member and the upper portion of same filled by two spaced cross members, a sash and a screen slidable in said frame, both of saine closing the opening between said members, and guided in the frame so as to wipe the lower cross member,

EDMUND H. LUNKEN.

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