US410115A

US410115A - Eden reed

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Publication number: US410115A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 1906-08-27

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BED TING RAILS 0F SASHES.

(No Model.)

FASTENER FOR T Patented Aug. 27 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDEN REED, OF sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR oE ONE-HALF TO ISIDORE sIMoN', E sAME PLACE. I

FASTENER FOR THE MEETING-RAILS OF SASHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 410,115, dated August 2'7, 1889. Application filed March 7, 1889.} Serial No.302,286 (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDEN REED, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Sash-Fasteners and Anti- Rattlers, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a sash-fastener thatboth locks the sash and tightens it at the meeting bar and against the window-frame to prevent rattling; and the invention consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is an elevation of a window-frame and double sash with my fastener and antirattler device attached. Fig. II is ahorizontal section taken on line- II III, Fig. I, and shows two of my sash-fasteners secured to the meeting cross-bar of the upper sash, one of them in its operative position engaging with the locking-plate on the lower sash and the other one in its inoperative open position. Fig. III is a like view taken on line II III, Fig. I, and shows a single sash-fastener secured to the middle of the meeting cross-bar of the upper sash and engaging with its locking-plate on the lower sash. Fig. IV is an enlarged perspective view of the locking thumb-screw, its pivotal link bar, and bracket attachment. Fig. V is an enlarged perspective View of the locking-plate with which said screw engages. Fig. VI is an enlarged perspective view of a modification, and shows the overlap-plate of the bracket to the locking attachment, having a side instead of rear connection with the base of the bracket beneath; and Fig. VII is an enlarged vertical section taken on line VII VII, and shows the attachment and operation of the locking device in connection with the meeting bars of-the sash on which it operates.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the window-frame, in which the lower sash 2 and the upper sash 3 is inclosed. 4 are the bevelfaced meeting cross-bars of said sash, the meeting face 5 of the lower sash being overhung and the meeting face 6 of the upper sash being underhung, so that the action of the lock-screw, when operative, as will be more fully herein after described, tightens said meeting joint.

7 is the glass inclosed in said sash, 8 the partingbeads between the two sashes,and 9 the outer stop-beads, between which andthe parting-beads the upper sash works.

Vertical grooves 10 in the upper sash provide seats for the parting-beads, so that said beads do not project in the way of the adjacent sash. I have shown and described the vertical grooves 10, in which the partingbeads 5 are seated in the upper sash; but said grooves may, when preferred, be countersunk in the lower sash, and will thuswork equally well, and in either case the countersink groove is to be sufficiently recessed to allow free play on the parting'bead under the tightening of the bevel-faces of the meeting bar by the operation of the locking-screw.

11 are the vertical stop-beads within which the lower sash slides, and 12 the horizontal stops that connect said vertical ones at top and bottom, which stops and other beads are all secured inside the window-frame by any suitable means.

that is secured to the meeting bar of the upper sash by the screw 14,which passes through the countersink hole 15 in the pendent flange 27 of the bracket, and engages in said meeting-bar of the upper sash. The metalbracket has a snrmounting overlap-plate 16, which is made integral to the base-plate of said bracket by the coupling-connection 17, that is cast or otherwise connected integral with the other parts of the bracket.

18 represents a pivot-screw that engages in its perforate seat 19 in both the overlap and base plate of the bracket 13, and which screw provides a pivotal hold of the link-bar 20, which works in said bracket in the intervening space between the overlap 16 and the base of said braek et,the screw passing through a perforation 21 in said link-bar.

2 represents the locking-screw, which ongages in and passes through a perforate screw 23 in the free end of the link-bar. The said locking-screw is normally set, so that when the sashes are closed and the link-bar 20 is thrown round until it assumes a direct forward position from the bracket that carries it the lower endof said screw slides on the top of and engages with the locking-plate 24:, which is secured to the top of the meeting bar of the lower sash by the countersunk screw 25, over which said locking-screw freely passes in its travels, and by the round-headed or other-shaped projecting screw 26, the head of which acts as a buffer to limit the further progress of the locking-screw. 28 is a proj ecting flange that surmounts the locking-plate inside the track of the lockingscrew. 29 is.

a perforation in the head of the locking-screw. The bracket, locking-screw, and lockingplate, when two fastenings are used, as is preferable in wide windows, are secured to the meeting cross-bars of the sash near the stiles thereof, as shown in Figs. I and II. When only one fastening is used, which alone is necessary with narrow windows, the said fastening devices are secured to the middle of the meeting cross bars of the sash, as shown in Fig. III. In Fig. V1 is shown a modification of the bracket, in which the.couplingconnection 17 of the overlap surmounting-plate 16, with the base of the bracket, is located on the side of said bracket instead of at its rear, as in the other figures. The part 17 in this modification acts as a butter to limit the turn of the lockin g-screw, and therefore there need be no projecting buffer-head on the screw 26 when this modification of the bracket is used.

In operation the locking-screw is set so that its lower end registers tight with the upper surface of the locking-plate, when the pivotal bar20, with said screw it carries, is turned around into its operative locking position. The window is thereby securely locked. Now, if it is desired to use the invention as an anti-rattler, all that is required is to turn the locking screw or screws fart-her around, which will force the lower sash down tight against the basement of the frame, and simultaneously force the upper sash up tight against the top of said frame, and at the same time the overhung bevel-edge of the meeting crossbar of the lower sash as it descends and the underhung bevel-edge of the adjacent meeting bar of the upper sash as it ascends by the operation of the locking-screw are tightly pressed against each other, so that the two sections of the sash are rigidly held together and forcibly pressed against the frame, both above and below, so that it is impossible for the windows to rattle, and air-tight joints are provided both above and below between the sash and the frame, and also at the meeting cross-bar joint.

- The perforations 29 in the heads of the locking-screws form convenient holds for any suitable instrument, by the insertion of which a convenient leverage is obtained to turn the locking-screws, when it is desired to exert ex tra force for tightening the pressure at the junction of' the meeting crossbars and that of the top and bottom crossbars of the sash against the window-frame.

The surmounting projecting flange 28, around which the lower end of the lockingscrew traverses, insures a firm coupling of the upper to the lower sash, even should the stop-beads be removed by intended burglars.

The said projection also guards the point of v the locking-screw against the act-ion of the burglars tools.

I claim as my invention In a combined sashfastener and anti-rat-' tler, the combination of the metal bracket 13, having a downturned flange 27, secured to the meeting bar of the upper sash, said bracket being also provided with an overlapping plate 16, the pivoted link-bar 20, the pivot-screw 18, on which the link 20 turns, the locking-screw carried by said link-bar, the locking-plate 24, secured to the meeting bar of thelower sash, the screw 26, passing through plate 24- and having a buffer-head to limit the swing of the link-bar and locking-screw it carries, and the surmounting flange 28 of the locking-plate, around the outside of which the locking-screw traverses, substantially as set forth.

' EDEN REED.

In presence of- BENJN. A. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.