US503189A

US503189A - Window

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Publication number: US503189A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-08-15
Anticipated expiration: 1910-08-15

Description

(No Mdei.) A .F.C. AR'MBRUSTBR.

WINDOW.

No. 503,189.l

Patented Aug. 15,1893.

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ATENT WINDOW.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,189, dated August 15, 1893. I

Applica-tion filed March 1, 1893. Serial No. 464,188- (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK C. ARMBRUSTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WindoWs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in the construction of windows, and consists in the matters hereinafter described and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my inventionz-Figure lis an inside elevation of a window constructed according to my invention and showing parts of the casing broken away to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal detail sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the Window casing and B B the upper and lower sash of the window. Vertically disposed strips B B are arranged to engage with the channels` or guides formed between the stripsE E at one side of the casing A, and the sash are hinged to the strips B B as shown at l) b. Similarly disposed strips C C are arranged to slide in the guide channels at the opposite side of the casing and are arranged to be detachably engaged with the sash. The usual weight cords D D are 'engaged with thesestrips B C, instead of being directly engaged with the sash, so that when the sash are secured to the said strips, the weights will serve to sust-ain the sash in any adjusted position in the usual manner.

In the strips C, I provide suitable studs G G, arranged to project through apertures in the stiles of the sash as shown more particularly in Fig. 3, and having screw-threaded ends g g, with which suitable nuts g g may be engaged to hold the sashv to said strips. I also provide apertures e e in the lower ends of the guide strips E E as shown and similar apertures c in the vertically disposed sliding Strips B B and C C, and provide pins F which may be slipped through said apertures e e and into the apertures c c when the sash has been moved into a position to bring said apertures into register, and I arrange said apertures cY c at a point in the stiles of the sash which will cause the lower edge of the sash to come above the line of the sill, when the said apertures c c and c e are in register. When said pins F F are in engagement with the strips B and C, the said strips will obviously be held from vertical movement.

Any suitable device, such as the pull I is let into the face of each sash, and affords means for swinging the said sash upon its hinges in an obvious manner.

When it is desired to swing the sash upon its hinges for cleaning or other purposes, it is only necessary to adjust it so as to bring the apertures c c and e e into register and insert the pins F as described, and then to remove the nuts g g when the sash is free to swing upon the hinges. This greatly facilitates the operation of washing windows as both surfaces of the glass are thus made readily accessible from the inside of the room.

In order to permit the upper sash to be swung inwardly as described, I iind that it is necessary to provide means whereby the lower sash may be elevated so as to bring its upper rail somewhat above the top of the Window opening so as to allow for the thickness of the sill, and for the thickness of the meeting rails of the two sash, and to this end I arrange a vertically movable cross piece H above the top of the grooves or guides in which the lower sash Vmoves which has suitable projecting tongues h h engaging with grooves h h at the top of the casing. When the lower sash is raised, it will engage with this cross piece, and elevate it in an obvious manner, so as to leave plenty of room for the upper sash to be moved down and swung inwardly upon its hinges below the lower sash. The pins F are at such times pressed through the strips E E and into engagement with the strips connected with ,the upper sash in the manner before described, and the nuts g g being removed, the sash may then be freely swung inward.

It may be desirable at times, to entirely reA move the sash for the purpose of reglazing, and for this purpose, I prefer to employ loose IOO pin butt hinges, the pins of which maybe removed in a familiar manner, to free the sash from the strips B B.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the easing and the sash of a window, of vertically disposed strips engaged with opposite sides of said casing, a

ro hinged connection between one of said strips and one stile of the sash, screw-threaded pins in the other strip, apertures in the other stile ofthe sash for the reception of said pins, and nuts for detachably holding said latter strip in engagement with the said stile, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wiscousin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK C. ARMBRUSTER.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. WILES, N. E. OLIPHANT..