US587846A - Sash for windows - Google Patents

Description

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G. MOORE. SASH FOR WINDOWS.

Patented Aug. 10, 1897.

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GEORGE MOORE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SASH FOR WINDOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,846, dated August 10, 1897.

Application filed December 16,1896. Serial No. 615,850. (No model.)

Io all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MOORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sashes for Windows, of which the followingis a specificatiomreference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved sash which shall be more particularly fitted for use in car-windows, although capable of more general use.

My invention is fully set forth in the following description, and the novel features thereof are pointed out and clearly defined in the claim at the end of this specification. In the said description reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a window-sash embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. corner of the sash, showing the construction more clearly. Fig. 4 is a view in vertical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

It is desirable that sashes for car-windows should combine great strength with comparative lightness, while at the same time presenting a construction which will permit of the ready removal of a broken pane of glass and the insertion of another pane. By the employment of my invention a sash meeting these requirements is produced.

Having reference to the drawings, 1 is the glass of the window. 2 is the bottom rail, 3 is the top rail, and 4 at the stiles, of the sash. The top and bottom rails are formed, preferably, from wood, the edge which receives the glass in one or both of the said rails being rabbeted or cut away at the inner side to permit of the glass being placed in position in the said rails. When one only of the said rails is rabbeted, the other will be grooved or channeled to receive the edge of the glass. After the glass has been placed in position a beading 5, of wood or other suitable material, is placed next the glass on the rabbeted edge of the rail and secured in place by nails 6 or other suitable securing means. The stiles each comprise an exterior piece 7, preferably of metal, to give rigidity, strength, and durability to the sash, and which exterior piece 7 is of the L or angle shape in cross- Fig. 3 is a detail of onesection that is shown in Fig. 2. These metal pieces form the exterior surface of the sash, as also the lateral edge portions thereof. Inside each ofthe said metal portions I place an L'-shaped or rabbeted strip 8, preferably of wood, against the thinned or rabbeted edge 9 of which the edge of the plate of glass abuts. A packing 19, of rubber or the like, isv employed between the glass and the stile. The thicker portion of the said strip 9 is of a thickness equal to the projecting portion of the metal part 7 of the stile, so that when the said strip is placed inside the said metal portion 7 the surface of the thicker portion of the said strip 9 will be substantially flush with the edge of the said projecting portion of the said metal part 7, as will be clear from Fig. 2. The said strip 8 is secured to the metal portion 7 by screws 10 or other suitable securing means. A retaining-strip 11 is placed in the rabbet in the said strip 8, said strip 11 being of a thickness equal to the depth of the said rabbet. It projects over the edge of the glass, so that the latter is firmly held, and the strip 11 is secured to the strip 8 and metallic portion 7 by means, preferably, of screws 12, which may be unscrewed from the inside of the car when it is desired to remove the retaining-strips 11 in order to take out a broken pane and replace it by a new one. The ends of the metallic portions 7 project across the ends of the top and bottom rails, the latter being grooved or cut away to receive the ends of said metallic'portions 7. The said top andbottom rails are united to the ends of the said metallic portions of the stiles by means of screws orsimilarsecuring devices.

By the construction above set forth a very strong, durable, and relatively light sash is 7 obtained which may be employed with advantage where, as in the case of windows which are curved vertically, there is considerable wear on the stiles in opening and closing the windows. The said construction'affords ready means of removing a broken pane and inserting in place thereof a new pane.

I claim as my invention- The improved sash comprising the top and bottom rails, one or both thereof being rab: beted and having the removable securing- IOO strip provided with means to retain it in place, and the stiles consisting eachof the L-shaped metal exterior piece, the rabbeted strip 8 In testimony whereof I affix mysignattire 7 against which the edge of the pane 'of glass in presence of two witnesses. abuts, and the removable retaining-strip l0- cated in the rabbet of the said rabbeted strip, GEORGE MOORE 5 overlying the said pane, and provided with Witnesses:

means to secure it in place, substantially as WM. A. MAOLEOD, described. ALICE I-I. MORRIsON.

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