US1732479A - Sash hclder - Google Patents

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S. M. LERNER sAsH HOLDER Filed Feb. 23. 1927 Patented Oct. 22, 1929 'i UNITED STATES SAMUEL MI. LERNER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA sAsn nomina Application filed February 23, 1927. Serial No. 170,119.

As may be inferred from the above title, this invention relates to means for holding window sashes; and it is an object of this invention to provide reliable resilient means for yieldably holding window sashes at desired levels, as the same may be opened for ventilation or other purposes, without the use of counterweights, or the like.

It is an object of this invention to provide,

1o at the edges of window stiles, and in engagement with those oppositely disposed vertical surfaces thereof which extend parallel with jambs, resiliently pressed frictional means for yieldably holding sashes at any desired la level; and preferred embodiments of my invention, including vertical strips interposed between Window stiles and window jambs, may utilize suitably spaced coil springs, extending Wholly or partially through said jambs,-yieldably forcing the mentioned vertical strips, from opposite sides, toward the mentioned faces of wind-ow stiles.

It is a further object, employing window sashes of slightly reduced outside diameter', or employing' window frames that include jambs which are spaced apart by a slightly greater distance, (in proportion to the diameter of sashes) than has heretofore been common, to provide simple and easily insertible concealed means serving not only to hold said Window sashes in elevated positions, to which they may be manually or otherwise lifted, but also to take up any lateral play in sai-d window sashes,-substantially excluding inclem` ent weather and preventing the rattling of windows during wind storms.

Other objects of my invention, essential parts of which (excepting the mentioned vertical strips) are concealed in use, may be best appreciated from the following description of an illustrative embodiment thereof (and from an alternative embodiment, in which I provide means for adjustment) taken in con* neetion with the appended claims and accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a partial elevational view of a twosash window in which my invention is employed, parts being broken away.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view, taken substantially as indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic View, corresponding to a portion of Fig. 1, but illustrating an alternative form.

Referring to details of that specific embodiment of my invention chosen for purposes of illustration, 11 being a window frame which comprises vertical j amb elements 12, I show an upper sash 13 as comprising stiles 14; and I show a lower sash 15 as comprising stiles 16.

Fach stile 111 being provided with a usual vertical surface 17, and each stile 16 being provided with a vertical surface 18, and the said vertical surfaces being disposed at the same horizontal distance from verticalsur faces 19, provided by jamb members 14, I interpose between the mentioned vertical surfaces, in the caseof a two-sash window, two Wooden or other strips 20, 20,-each preferably corresponding in length to the total height of a window opening and corresponding in breadth to the front-to-back thickness of the respective window Stiles.

A central guide strip 21 and additional guide strips 22 and 23 being so spaced apart, as by suitably securing the same to jambs 12 and to strips 24, (to which latter an outside trim or facing element 25 is shown as secured) as to permit a reasonable play of the strips 20` therebetween, I show the latter as constantly pressed into engagement with the i stiles 20, 20 by spiral springs 26,-the latter being preferably retained, in openings 27, such as may be cut in the jamb elements 12, in case said openings are cut entirely through said jambs, by means such as sheet metal elements 28, shown as secured by screws 29.

In. the alternative embodiment of my invention illustrated in Fig. 3, the holes or openings27a are shown as cut only part way through a `jamb element 12a; an optional sheet metal element 28:l is shown as having" the form of a thimble comprising an inner flange 29; and, in order to provide for con vement adjustment of springs such as are shown at 26,`interior1y threading a tubular element 30 (shown as secured by screws 31a extendin through ears 32a) I provide an eX- ternally threaded stop 33a with a nick 34,

(it)i accessible through an opening 85a, in which the tubular element 30a may be secured.

Essential features of'my inventions being f illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, it will be apprethough saidy sashes may be manually movable without diiiiculty, the said sashes shall always remain in any position to which they may be adjusted; and the modification illustrated' in Fig. 3 should accordingly be understood merely todisclose features, not ordinarily necessary, which may be employed in supe rior buildings or in regions Where climatic changes render adjustability important.

Although I have herein described a single typical embodiment' of my invention, suggesting one alternative embodiment thereof, it should be understood not only that various features-thereoi` might be independently employed but also that all embodimentsS thereof areA intended effectivelyto hold'I Window sashes in any positions to which they may be adjusted, and to prevent, entrance of rainy or wind, and largely or completely to obviate rattling of Windowy sashes; andl also that numerous modifications of my. invention, additional` to those mentioned above, might easily be devised by Workers skilled in the arts to. which this case relates, without. in?.

volving the slightest departure from the spirit and scope of my invention, as; the same is indicated abovey and inthe followingA claims.. n

IV claim, as mtyv invention 1.l In, means tor yieldably supporting a sasl1.inea Window opening at any level to which it may be adjusted relatively t0 a xed jamb. member; a substantially flat vertical stripinterposed between ay sash member and. said,y jamb member; and means resiliently pressing said strip toward one of said members,-said resilient means. being proportioned in strength to the pressure required. tohold said Window and provided with adjusting means accessible through openings in said strips;` said adjusting means comprising an internally threaded member mounted in.

said strip, and an externally threaded cap movable in said member.v

2. F or use in combination with a window sash and a Window frame havingj jambs,4 in the sides'.V thereof; a sash hol-,der embodying a, substantial-ly iiatvertical strip interposed betweenasaidlsash and alz jamby in said trame, saidstrip bein-g provided with a plurality ot' apertures;-5 internall-y threaded tubular membersmountedfin said apertures.; coil springs mgaging the side ofvsaid j amb. andl extendingjnto saidftubular members; and externallyr threaded adjustable caps A mounted in said tubular members engaging thef outer ends of said coil springs.

3L, For use in combination with a Window' sash and a window frame having j ambs in the sides thereof; a sash holder embodying a substantially iiat vertical strip interposed between said sash and a jamb in said frame, said strip being provided with a plurality of apertures; internally threaded tubular members mounted in, said apertures; coil springs engaging the side of said jamb. and extending into said tubular members; and externally threaded adjustable caps mounted in said tubular members engaging the outer ends of said coil springs, said jamb members being provided with openings coaxial with the openings in said strip and adapted to receive one end of said springs.

Il. In means for yieldably supporting a sash in a Window openingy at any level to which it may be adjusted relatively to a lixed jamb member provided with a plurality of transverse apertures; a substantially iiat vertical strip interposed betweenv a sash member and said jamb member; and means resiliently pressing said strip toward one of said members, said resilient means comprising separate springs mounted in said transverse. apertures which are restrained against outward movement by sheet metalA plates mounted on said jamb over the outer endsl of said transverse openings and are restrained against inward movement by adjustable cap means mounted in said transverse apertures.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this` 17th4 day of February, 1927.

SAMUEL M. LERN

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