US349647A

US349647A - Charles godfeey gumpel

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Publication number: US349647A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1903-09-21

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CHARLES GODFREY Gi'JMPEL, or LEICESTER s UARnooUNTY or MIDDLE- SEX, ENGLAND.

APPLIANCE FOR SUPPORTING CARRIAGE-WINDOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,647, dated September 21, 1886.

' Application filed July 13, 1886. Serial No. 207,942. (No model.)

1 0 all whom it may concern.-

-Be it known that I, CHARLES GODFREY GiiMPEL, a citizen of England, residing at Leicester Square, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented a new and useful Ap- -pliance for Holding Carriage-\Vindows and other Sliding Sashes at any Required Height, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means of holding carriage-windows or other sliding sashes at any required height, permitting them to be easily raised, supporting their weight but allowing them to be lowered by application of slight pressure in addition to their weight. I efi'ectthis by applying apparatus, which Iwill describe, referring to the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention applied to a carriage-window. Figure 1 is a vertical section of the door and window of a carriage, showing the window raised to its full height. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view, and Figs. 3 and 4 are plans of the plate B and bar E, respectively.

In the recess under the window, into which the sash is usually lowered, I place a bar, A, securing it at its lower end, as illustrated in Fig. 1. To the under side of the sash-frame I fix a plate, B, from which project downward two studs. 0 and D. that pass through holes in a cross-bar, E. The bar A passes through a hole in the bar E, and also through a hole in the plate B. Around the stud G is a helical spring, tending to press the one end of the bar E down, and around D is'also a spring, tending to press the other end of E up, the tendency of those springs being to cant the bar E into a slightly-inclined position.

In pulling up the sash by means of a handle, F, at its top, the clutch offers little or no resistance, but when the sash is let go its weight, acting through the spring on G, depresses one end of E, while the spring on D keeps up the other end. The bar E, being thus somewhat canted, is made to grip the bar A with sufficient frictional hold to prevent the sash from descending; On applying the hand to push down the sash this resistance continues until a collar, d, on the stud D, meeting the bar E, causes that end of the bar to shift a little downward, thus releasing the grip. The sash may be fully raised and made to catch over the sillbar G, as shown in Fig. 1. For releasing it when it is in that condition it is only necessary to press the top part of the sash outward, causing the sash to cant a little over a cross-bar or two side studs, H, as a fulcrum,

Having thus described the nature of my invention and the best means I know for carrying the same into practical effect, I claim As an appliance for holding carriage-win dows and other sliding sashes, the combination, with a vertical bar fixed in the recess below the sash, of a horizontal bar embracing the vertical bar and carried by the bottom of the sash, said horizontal bar being acted upon by two springs tending to cant it, so as to clutch the vertical bar, while a stud or collar on the sash makes the horizontal bar release,

its hold when the sash is depressed, substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witncsses, this second day of July, A. D. 1886.

O. GODFREY GUMPEL.

Witnesses OLIVERIMRAY, Patent Agent, 28 Southampton Buildings, London, lV. 0.

JNo. P. M. MILLARD, Clerk to Abel (f4 Imray, Consulting Engineers and Patent Agents, 28 Southampton Buildings, Lon don, W. O.