US2113019A - Sash holder - Google Patents

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April 5, 1938. A R FULTON 2,113,019

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ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UN-irEov STAT-Es SASHI HOLDERv A Ellensburg; Wash.

Application February 11, 1936";j Srial'Not? 63,3425

3 Claims.

This invention relates to sash holders and the object thereof, generally stated, is to provide perfected and especially simplified and inexpensive mechanism adapted to securely retain a Window sash at any selected point within its range of movement; more specific objects being to develop a structural assembly permitting ready installation without the necessity of skilled carpentry services and to provide a sash holder which in opleration prevents marring or in any manner whatsoever defacing the surface of the window frame or the sash.-

The foregoing, together with further and more particular objects and advantages, will appear in the course of the following detailed description and claims, the invention consisting in the novel construction, adaptation, and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a front elevation indicating the now preferred embodiment of the invention as the same is applied to a conventional window assembly, only such portions of the latter as apply to the invention being represented.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken through the window assembly on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and illustrating the invention in side elevation; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan View of the facing plate which is utilized to support the sash-holding arms.

Designated in said drawing by the numeral 5 is the jamb constituting the side bar of a window frame. B and I indicate the inner stop and partlng bars which lie at each side of the frame to form channels in which the window sash, indicated by 8, is slidably received, said sash in the lateral edges of the stiles 8 being vertically channeled for the reception of the bead 9 of a weather-stripping member I secured in a conventional manner to the side bar 5.

According to my inventionl provide, carried by the sash and preferably provided at each side of the same, a pair of companion sash-holding arms which are each formed with a vertical slot and hingedly mounted to locate the slots in the approximate plane of the stile channel, the slots acting such that one edge of the same operates as a binding wall, the arms being oppositely movable about their respective hinges as an axis in effecting movement of the binding walls of the slots into and from cramping positions as respects the weather-stripping bead.

Said arms, indicated by II, are desirably formed from relatively triangular blanks, preferably metal, which at one end are rolled to form hinge bearings I2, the opposite or free end being configured as a finger-engaging shelf I3, and the outer lateral edge being slotted to provide the referred-to` binding wall I4. For the reception of sai-d arms a recess is cut in the sash stile and this recess desirably is shaped to conform to the general contour of the arms, terminating to the rear of the stile in a cavity I for the reception of the hinge-forming ends of the arms. Within the recess and secured by screws I'I to overlie the rear wall thereof is a facing plate I6 formed with an angular extension IG' which projects into and seats against the rear Wall of the. cavity I5, pins I8 supported by said extension acting as arbors over Which the arms Il are hingedly mounted. Said pins desirably are disposed at opposite sides of and equidistantly spaced from the median line of the recess and preferably lie in planes common to the upper and lower surfaces of a leg extension secured to the facing plate, the arms lying above and below the leg and being expressed outwardly as respects one another under the influence of a compression spring 2I carried in a terminal loop 22 of the leg 20.

In a manner which is believed clear, the spring 2I normally acts to express the arms I I and actuate the walls I4 of the slots into binding engagement to the weather-stripping bead, manual compression of the spring through the exertion of linger pressure upon the protruding shelves I3 influencing the arms against the stop surfaces of the leg 20 to obtain, through the arcuate travel of the arms, a progressive recession of the binding walls I4 from the bead.

Modifications of the invention will readily appear, it being my intention that the same be conned only as by the limitations which occur in the claims.

What I claim, is:-

1. Mechanism for use with a sliding sash for holding the sash in adjusted positions relative to a weatherstripped window jamb, the sash being of that character in which a vertical slot is provided to receive the lamb-carried weatherstrip element, the mechanism comprising a backing plate adapted to be secured against the back wall of a recess cut in the side member of the sash, a pair of horizontally-projecting vertically-spaced stud pins carried by the plate, companion gripping arms pivotally supported by the pins for opposing movements into and from horizontal positions, the arms being formed in their outer lateral edges with vertically aligned slots adapted to register in their horizontal positions With the sash slot, and a spring carried by the plate to influence the arms directively from one another whereby, in operating location relative to the sash, the front and rear Walls of the arm slots bind the Weatherstrip element to lock the sash against vertical movement in the jamb.

2. The structure dened in claim 1 wherein a terminally-looped plate element is fixed to the backing plate in the space between the arms, the looped end thereof providing a socket for the reception of the spring and the upper and lower edge surfaces acting as stops to limit the contractive spring-compressing movement of the arms.

3. Mechanism for use with a sliding sash to hold the sash in adjusted positions relative to a metal-Weatherstripped Window jamb, the sash being of that character having a vertical slot in its side piece to receive the Weatherstrip element, said mechanism comprising a backing plate adapted to overlie the back Wall of a recess cut in said side piece of the sash, a pair of horizontally projecting pins carried by the backing plate to lie in vertically spaced relation Within the recess, and companion gripping arms pivotally mounted on the pins for opposing movements Within the recess into and from horizontal positions, said arms in the outer lateral edges thereof having vertically aligned slots adapted, when located horizontally Within the recess, tol register with the sash slot whereby the front and rear Walls of the arm slots act to bind the Weatherstrip element and thereby lock the sash against vertical movement relative to the jamb when inuenced in opposite directions from the horizontal.

LOYD R. FULTON.

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