US331592A

US331592A - Jacob webee

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Publication number: US331592A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-12-01
Anticipated expiration: 1902-12-01

Description

J. WEBER.

SASH- BALANCE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.JACOB WEBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM F. LENNON, OF SAME. PLACE.

SASH-BALANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,592, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed May 27, '1885. Serial No. 166,860.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB WEBER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Weight Attachment for WVindow-Sashes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to dispense with cords and pulleys in the application of weights to window-sashes; and my invention consists of the construction, arrangement, and

combination of parts, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this "specification,

1 in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken front elevation of a window frame and sash having my new Weight attachment applied thereto, the lowersash being shown partly raised. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the window-frame, showing the plate for keeping the weights in place. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the line 50 x of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional edge view showing a modified arrangement of one of the weights.

The window-frame A in Figs. 1, 2, and3 is constructed to form weight-channels B B immediately in line with the edges of the win- 0 dow-sash O O, in the usual manner where weights are used; but in Fig. 4 the windowframe has the weight-channel B offset from the edge of the sash, to enable my new weight attachment to be applied to windows in use 3 5 without weights or weight-channels.

D represents the window-weights placed in the weight-channels B, and held therein by the plates E, that are formed with channels 6 to receive the weights, as shown clearly in Fig. 4c 3. The weights D are of a length about equal to that of the vertical sides of the sash-frames G, and are each formed with arack, d, at their inner edges, the edges facing the stiles A of the window-frame. The window-sashes Care 4 5 provided with racks c attheir outer edges, and

in openings a, made in the stiles A, are journaled 011 the rods or short shafts f the pinions F, which mesh with the racks c and d, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, so that movement of the sash will communicate reverse motion to the weights.

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WVhen the sash and weights areput in place in the window-frame A, the upper sash will be put at the bottom of the frame A and its weight D lifted to theto'p of the frame, and the connection of both racks c andd with pinion F then made, so that the action of the Weight on the pinion will through the pinion lift the sash and hold it closed. The lower sash will he put in place the reverse of the above-that is, it will be raised to the top of the frame A and the weight D put at the bottom, and the connection of racks c and d with pinion F then made, so that the lowering of the lower sash will elevate the weight, so that through pinion F it will assist in raising the lower sash.

In case a windowframe without weights is so constructed that a channel for the weights cannot be formed in line with the edges of the sash, I shall form a channel, B, at one side, as shown in Fig. 4, and employ two pinions, F F, both made fast to a short shaft, f, of a length to reach from the rack of the weight in the side channel to the rack on the windowsash, so that the pinions F F will mesh with said racks on opposite sides, and thus cause the sash and weight to mutually act upon each other, as above described, to operate the window.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a sash-balance, the combination, with the weights having racks engaged by pinions which engage with the racks of the sashes, of the guide-plates, each formed or cast in one piece with the walls of chambers receiving and guiding the weights, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The channel B, offset from the windowsash, and provided with weight D, having rack d, in combination with the sash provided with rack c. and the two pinions F F, secured on shaft f, and meshing on opposite sides with the rack of the weight and that of the sash, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JACOB WEBER.

Witnesses: I

H. A. WEsT, EDGAR TATE.