US2113292A - Window frame fastening means - Google Patents

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April 5, 1938.

H. w. COOK 2,113,292

WINDOW FRAME FASTENING MEANS Filed Dec. 24, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 l0 ,4 ilk attorney April 5, 1938.

WINDOW FRAME FASTENING MEANS Filed Dec. '24, 1956 2 Sheets-She'et 2 Zhwentor HARRY W.COUK

H. w. cooK I/ I 2,113,292

Patented Apr. 5, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE"- 6 Claims.

This invention relates to bonding devices for use in window frames especially such as are now constructed of wood.

As well understood such frames include a sill and two upright jambs or pulley stiles nailed near their lower ends to the oposite ends of the body of the sill. The sill, of course, is exposed to the weather and receives much rain and snow or ice. Owing to this exposure the sill and jambs or stiles become separated notwithstanding the nails customarily used and as a consequence permitting rain water or the water of melting snow or ice to pass in through the joints and perhaps resulting in the rotting of the sill and jambs 01 stiles unless seasonably attended to. But by reason of the position of those joints and the trim they are concealed and continue unobserved.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a simple and economical means whereby the jambs are restrained from separation and held firmly to the ends of the sill irrespective of whether they are nailed together.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 illustrates in front elevation, with parts broken out, a window frame in which the invention may be incorporated.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, on a larger scale, of the restraining attachment according to the invention.

Fig. 3 is a fractional end elevation on the scale of Fig. 1, broken out, illustrating the attachment as applied thereto.

Fig. 4 is a fractional view, on the scale of Fig. 2, looking at the lower end of what is shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the left hand (looking inward) lower corner of the window frame illustrating my invention applied thereto.

In the views It] designates one of the side jambs of a window frame having a window stop seat Ill ll designates the sill having a horn H l2 designates the head jamb having a stop seat I2 coinciding with the window stop seat It). The two side jambs are commonly nailed, as indicated at l3, to the opposite ends of the sill with the sill horns projecting beyond the jamb. The lower ends of the jambs are indicated as cut to coincide with the lower face of the sill but this is not necessary. The vertical members l4 and the horizontal member l5 constitute the usual external casings of the frame, the vertical members resting at their lower ends on the horns of the sill, and the horizontal member 15 resting on and joined totheupper ends of the vertical casing member. I

My device for efiecting or restraining the connectionbetween the lower ends of the side jambs and the ends of the sills, as shown in Fig. 2, consists of a piece of rather stout wire or metal rod bent to form two arms l6 and I1 extending from an intermediate looped portion H3. The arm I6 is bent to form a driving shoulder l6 from which extends the spike member IG and the arm I! is bent from the loop portion l8 outwardly and thence downward at a right angle, as shown at the portion I1, and finally in a direction parallel to the extension of the loop portion and having its end formed as a spike member ll thereby' producing a frame open at one side. The spike portions of the device are preferably formed broad like chisel ends, as shown, so that when driven into the wood of the parts engaged they stand cross-wise of the grain of the wood and better resist movement in the wood.

In applying my device the spike end [6 is first driven into the horn ll on the sill, the device being tilted slightly upward, as illustrated in broken lines Fig. 4, and the blows of a hammer applied to said shoulder l6 until said shoulder contacts with the wood of the sill horn, as depicted by the full lines Fig. 4, with the shoulder fitting snugly against the sill horn. After this operation the restraining device is pressed or sprung down against the side jamb and the spiked end portion I! driven into the lower side of the sill, in which case the portion I! will lie against the lower side of the sill as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. Finally a nail or screw 19 is driven through the loop I 8 into the wood of the sidejamb thereby cooperating with the spike endsreferred to to hold the device in position. The devices are made as rights and lefts.

From the construction shown it will be observed that because the restraining device engages the sill at two points and embraces the side jamb said jamb is restrained from separation from the end of the sill with greater certainty than would be the case with nails as customarily used. The function of the fastening member I9 further strengthens the two connections referred to.

In the claims I use the word jamb to include also what is called a pulley stile.

The forms of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

1. A frame fastening means consisting of a wire or rod bent to form an arm of considerable length and a second arm bent to form a substantially rectangular frame open at one side, the said rectangular frame standing at a substantial angle to said first mentioned arm and with its open side adjacent a plane that coincides with the axis of the first mentioned arm and also intersects the plane of the said rectangular frame, the free ends of said arms being connectible with the frame to be fastened. f 1 i 2. A frame fastening means consisting of a wire or rod bent to form an arm of considerable length and having therein a bent portion form-" ing a driving shoulder, and a secondarm bent to 7,

form a substantially rectangular frame open at one side and standing in a plane at a'subst'antial angle to said first mentioned arm, with saidopen side adjacent a plane that coincides withthe axis of the first mentioned arm and is substantially parallel to that side of the rectangular frame .op-

posite said open side...

3. A frame fastening means consisting of awire or rodbent to form an arm of considerable length: and a second armfbent to form a substantially rectangular frame open atone side and standing in a plane at a substantial angle to said first mentioned arm, with its open side adjacent a plane that coincides with the axis of the first mentioned arm andintersects the plane of the said rectangular frame, the ends of the said arms being sharpened in wedge form extending in planes substantially parallel to each other.

4. A frame fastening device consisting of a,

wire or rod bentto forrn-an arm of cqnsiderable length and a second armbent to .form a substantially rectangular frame open at one side and standing in a plane at a substantial angle to said first mentioned arm, and to a plane that coincides with the axis of the first mentioned arm and intersects the plane of said rectangular frame, the free ends of said arms being sharpened, said wire or rod having a loop at the junction of said arms to receive a securing means for the device.

5. In a window frame of wood, a, bonding device for restraining theseparation of the sill and a contiguous jamb consisting of a wire or rod bent to form an arm of considerable length having therein a driving shoulder, and a second arm bent to form a substantially rectangular frame open atone side that stands in a plane at a substantial angle to said first mentioned arm with the said open side adjacent a plane that coincides with the axis of the first mentioned arm and in- "tersects the plane of said rectangular frame,

the end portions of said arms engaging the sill at opposite sides of the contiguous jamb and with the said rectangular frame extended around the end of the said jamb.

6. A frame fastening device consisting of a wire or rod bent to form an arm substantially rectilinear for a considerable portion of its length and a second arm bent to form a substantially rectangular frame open at one side, said second mentioned arm standing in a plane substantially at a right angle to the direction of the said length of the first mentioned arm, the ends of said arms adapted to engage the members to be fastened.

HARRY W. COOK.

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