US340945A - Anti-sash-rattling device - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

. G. E. GORE-AM.

ANTI SASH RATTLINGDEVIGE. No. 340,945. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEY YERs. Phomum m bar. Wnhin mmc UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. GORHAM', or ALBANY, NEW roan,

ANTl-SASH-RATTLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,945, dated April 27,1886.

Application filed December 6, 188-1. Serial No. 149,664. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. GORHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anti-Battling Dev ces for Drop-Sashes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my present invention is to obviate the annoyance occasioned to the traveling public by the incessant jarring and rattling of the ordinary drop-sashes in general use for tramways, stages, omnibuses, and the like.

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction of parts set forth in the claim,forming a part of this specification.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawingsforming a part of this speci fication, and wherein like letters indicate like parts, Figure 1 represents in perspective and partly broken away a car-window, showing my invention in operative position. Fig. 2 represents in perspective an enlarged detail view of the latter. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the same. i

K indicates the exterior wall of the carbody, having suitable openings for the inseu tion of the frames F ofa series of windows, as P.

It indicates one of the window-separating partitions, extending inwardly to the inner -car-wall, L, and having a facing-strip, N,

restingupon the upper border-piece, L, of said inner wall. An intervening space separates thewalls K and L for the reception of the drop sash and the screen or shutter M when the latter are lowered. A bead, H, forms, with the facingstrip N, a guide for the screen M, and a flanged projecting ledge, G, is provided for the lower cross-piece of the sash-frame. These several parts in the relationship shown and described constitute an ordinary and wellknown construction of drop-sash window suitable for the application of my anti-rattling device. The latter consists of a base-plate, B, of cast-iron or other suitable material, perforated at A, and having a curved slot, D. Upon this plate is mounted, by means of a headed rivet, S, the

loosely-turning friction-roller O, of rubber or other like resilient material.

As thus constructed the fixture is attached to the partition R primarily by means of a screw passing through the perforation A,and is secured in place by the screw E entering the slot D. The pressure of the roller against the sash-frame F is attained by moving to ward the latter the lower end of the baseplate B, and fixing it then in position by tightening the screw E. The point of contact between the roller and sash-frame is to be chosen at or near the top cross-piece of the latter when the window is closed, as shown in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 3, I prefer to make the base-plate B comparatively narrow, pivoting the roller 0 eccentrically thereon, as illustrated. By means of this arrangement ofparts the same fixture may be used to fit a sash which runs close to the partingstrip,and one which has shrunken away a quarter or half inch therefrom, the fixture being located at either the right or left hand of the sash, as the conditions may require, and so attached to the parting-strip that the slot D shall be either below the roller, as shown in Fig. 1, or above the same, the plate in the latter instance being in a reversed pos tion.

The mode of operation of the invention is suffieiently apparent from what has been said above. In its closed position thewindowframe is forced firmly against the cavbody, and all rattling and jarring thereby prevented. The window is raised and lowered in the usual manner and without material interference by the fixture.

Should the rubber in course of time become worn by use, it is merely necessary in order to render it as serviceable as before,to loosen the adjusting-screw E and move the lower end of the base-plate an appropriate distance inward.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The anti-rattling device for drop-sashes, consisting of a base-plate having the perforation A, and slot D, with the pinion S, and loosely-turning friction-roller O, of resilient material, the said roller being mounted upon I00 of in such a manner that it shall extend at in presence of two witnesses. unequal distances from the opposite sides of the base-plate, thereby providing for unequal GORHAM' 5 distances between the parting-strip and the \Vitnesses:

sash, substantially as and for the purposes I CHRISTIAN L. KATTREIN, J r.,

specified. DAVID A. THOMPSON,

said base-plate at one side of the center there- In testimony whereof I affix my signature

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