US305138A

US305138A - Sash-fastener

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Publication number: US305138A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-09-16
Anticipated expiration: 1901-09-16

Description

(No Model.)

M. BOURKE.

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Patented Spt. 16, 1884.

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MARTIN BOURKE, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

SASH-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,138, dated September 16, 1884:. l Application tiled December 28, |883. (No model.)

To all whom t muy concern.-

Be 1t known that I, MARTIN BOURKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash Holders and Locks; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear", and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of a portion of a window sash and frame, showing the application of my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the flanged or socket plate and two bolt-sections connected together; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the two bolt-sections, showing them separated; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the interior of the housing for containing the bolt, and Fig. 5 a plan view of the exterior thereof.

The present invention has relation to that class of sash-holders consisting of a diagonallyslotted housing containing two bolt-sections Voperated by a hand-lever cast on the inner one of the sections and extending through t-he diagonal slot in the housing.

In the above-described form of sash-holders the lever was flattened at its outer end for convenience of operating it, and was ynecessarily of greater width than the width of the diagonal slot. It was therefore necessary in order to introduce the bolt-section in the bottomless housing to first turn it at right angles thereto and pass the flattened end of the lever edgewise through the slot, and afterward turn it a quarter-circle to bring the lever and bolt section in operative position.

In my former patent, No. 291,672, dated January 8, 1884, to avoid the objectionable feature of having to turn the lever after passing it through the diagonal slot, the lever was made of such shape'as to pass through the slot, no matter in what position the bolt-section was placed. Although this construction of lever obviated-the necessity of turning it, as above described, it is preferable to iatten the lever at its outer end or have it sufficiently wide so that it can be more conveniently operated by the iingers.

The object of the invention therefore is to so construct the bottomless housing as to admit of a lever having a flattened or enlarged end being passed through the slot in its normal position without the necessity of turning it to bring it .in operative position; also, improving the several details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A B represent, respectively, the window sash and frame, only a portion thereof being shown sufficient to illustrate the application of my invention.

The sash-holder consists of a bottomless diagonally slotted housing, C, and a bolt formed in two sections, D E, the former having cast therewith a hand-lever, F, and the bolt-sections detachably connected together by a slot and pin, e and f. The housing Gis proy `vided with iianges b, for attaching it to the window-sash by screws, and has the diagonal slot c, through which the lever passes, and an inclined bearing, c, against which bears a simi-- lar incline, g, on the outer end of the bolt-section D.

The construction above described is substantially the same as that shown in my former patent hereinbefore referred to, and further reference to them is considered unnecessary.

The housing O is cast with shoulders h upon its interior sides and on aline diagonally opposite each other,so as to prevent the bolt from having too much play in a lateral direction. A spur, fi, is also ca'st on the housing C at its end, and by pressing the housing against the' window-sash suiiliciently to embed the spur in the wood-work thereof the housing will be held in position until fastened by the screws. The plate G on the end of the bolt-section E enters a socket-plate, I-I, connected to the window-frame by countersinking, so as to have the flanged edge of the socket-plate flush with the surface of the frame, whereby the device is rendered serviceable as a sash-lock as well as a sash-holder. y

The lever F, as will be seen, is flattened or enlarged at its outer end; and to enable it to pass through the slot c with the bolt-section in its normal or working position, I provide a longitudinal slot, d, joining the diagonal slot IOO and at right angles thereto, as shown in Fig. 5. This addition oi" the slot d in relation to the slot ci, as shown, )resents a sufficiently Wide opening to allow the larger portion of the lever to he passed u-p through the housing without having to in sert it in any particular way and afterward turn it to bring the bolt-section in operative position, as heretofore.

Having new fully described Iny invention, what I elaini'as new7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a sash-holder7 a horizontal holt formed in sections detaehahly Connected together by a slot and pin and provided with a hand-lever7 in combination with a bottomlessV diagonallyslotted housing having a longitudinal slot joining the diagonal slot and at right angles