US29273A

US29273A - Window-sash fastening

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Publication number: US29273A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1860-07-24
Anticipated expiration: 1877-07-24

Description

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JULIUS HORNIG, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

WINDOW-SASH FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,273, dated July 24, 1860.

To all whom it 'may concern: which it may be readily turned in the open- Be it known that I, J. Hormis, of Newing f. ark, in the county of Essex and State of The outer part c, of the plate is suiiiciently New Jersey, have invented a new and Iinwide to form a good bearing surface against proved lVindow-Sash Fastening; and I do the inner side of the stile d, as shown in 50 hereby declare that the following is a full, Fig. 3. clear, and exact description of the same, From the above description it will be seen reference being had to the accompanying that when the eccentric C, is so turned that drawings, making a part of this specificaits handle g, between the screw and the tion, in whichpart c, of the plate and below the screw as 55 Figures l, 2, and 4, are face views of a porshown in Fig. l, the eccentric will cause the tion of a window with my invention applied part c, of the plate to bear against the stile to a sash. Figs. 3, and 5, are sections of d, and with a pressure due to the weight of the same taken respectively in the lines 00, ir, the sash, the pressure being suiiicient to rey, y, Figs. 2, and l. tain the sash in the frame, butwhen the ec- 60 Similar letters of reference indicate corcentric is so turned that the handle g, will responding parts in the several figures. be above the screw b, as shown in Fig. 2, the The obyect of this invention is to obtaln eccentric will prevent the sash from being a fastening for window sashes which may, raised at the outer side of the window for by a very simple adjustment, be used to rein attempt-ing to raise the sash, the eccen- 65 tain the sashes at any desired height withtric will press the part c, of the plate against in the range of their movement and also the stile (Z. The eccentric C, is turned from used as a lock to secure the sashes in a closed one of the above described positions to the state so that they cannot be opened or moved other by grasping the handle g, with the at the outer side of the window. thumb and linger. 70

The invention consists in the employment In Figs. 4, and 5, a modification of the 01 use 0f an eccentric fitted Within ii Suitdevice is shown. In the latter figures the plate able plate so arranged and applied to the D, is applied to the sash in a mortise 7i, and sash as to elit'ect the desired result. the axis z', of the eccentric C, passes through To enable those skilled in the art to fully a plate j, which is screwed over the mortise 75 understand and construct my invention I 71., the axis z', having a knob 71:, on its outer will proceed to describe it. end by .which the eccentric may be turned. A, represents a portion of a window frame rl`he latter arrangement might be preferable and B, a portion of a sash fitted therein in in some cases. the usual way. Having thus described my invention what 80 C, Figs. l, 2 and 3, is an eccentric which I claim as new and desire to secure by Letis attached to one of the stiLes a, of the sash ters. Patent isby a screw b. The combination of the eccentric C, and D, is a metal plate the outer part c, of plate D, applied to the sash B, and arranged 40 which is parallel with one of the stiles d, of relatively with the stile d, of the frame A, 85 the window frame A, the inner part e, of to operate as and for the purpose set forth. the plate having a circular opening' f, in JULIUS HORNIG. which the eccentric C, is iitted. The eccen- Vitnesses: tric C, is allowed to turn freely in the plate M. M. LIVINGSTON, D, and it is provided with a handle g, by B. GIROUXE.