US600405A - Hinge for swinging sashes - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

0. J. CLARKE.

EINGE FOR SWINGING SASHES.

Patented Mar. 8, 1898.

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CHARLES J. CLARKE, OF KINGSBURG, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO FRANCIS IVILLIAM FROST, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

HINGE FOR swmome SA-SHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,405, dated March 8, 1898. Application filed June 26, 1897. derial No. 642,437. (No model.)

T0 (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. CLARKE, of Kingsburg, in the county of Fresno and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges for Swinging Sashes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

This invention relates to windows, and more particularly to that class of windows provided with swinging sashes; and the object of the invention is to provide asimple hinge of improved form adapted to work in the sash and sash-guide of the frame, so that the working part of the hinge is hidden from view when the sash is closed.

A further object is to provide a removable hinge of the class described in which the parts are permanently secured together.

lVith these objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully described and claimed, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a sectional plan view of my improved hinge in position with the sash closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the sash swung open. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the hinge. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the frame-bushing in which the hinge works. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the sash-bushing.

A designates the vertical side of the frame, and B and C, respectively, the inner and outer beads which form the sash guide or way. Bushing D extends backward through an opening formed in frame A, the bushing being provided with perforated ears D to rereceive screws for securing it in the rear wall of the sashway. The entrance to the bushing is countersunk, as shown at E, and communicating with the lower side of the bushing-opening is slot or depression F, extendfrom end to end of the bushing, the inner portion of the slot or depression being enlarged or widened, as shown at G.

Bushing 11, secured in sash-rail I, alines with and faces bushing D, being formed with corresponding perforated lugs H to pass screws for securing it to the outer edge of the rail. The bushing-barrel extends entirely through the sash-rail, and on its lower side is slotted from end to end, as shown at .I, the slot adjacent the head of the bushing being formed with offset or depression J.

The hinge proper is of bolt form, and consists of two members K and L, pivoted together at M, the pivot being disposed vertically when the hinge is in operative position to permit of horizontal swinging movement. Hinge part K, which works in frame-bushing D, is formed with nib K, which passes backward through slot F, and is turned, in adj usting the hinge to operative position, into enlargement G, in which it works, the nib engaging the end wall of the enlargement and being thus held from removal. Hinge part L is also formed with nib L in line with nib K and adapted to pass through slot J of bushing H to offset J, which it snugly fits, thus holding the hinge in operative positon and from longitudinaldisplacement. Hinge part L is extended to form handhold O.

The bushings having been properly positioned with their slots alined, the jointed hinge may be readily inserted by passing same inward through the sash-rail and into the frame, and hinge-nibs being in line, so as to freely enter the slot-offsets of the bushings, and the hinge is then partially turned to engage the nibs with the slot-offsets, when it will be in proper operative position. The arrangement is such that when the sash begins to turn in opening hinge part K, which has limited longitudinal movement in its bushing, is drawn outward sufficiently to free 0 the point of pivotal connection of the hinge parts, so that part L, fixed in the sash-rail, may turn thereon in swinging the sash. hen the latter is closed, part K simply moves backward to the position shown in Fig. 1.

The hinge is extremely simple and cheap of construction. The bushings and the major portion of the jointed hinge are hidden from view when the sash is closed and need not be expensively finished or even polished. The 100 hinge part may be conveniently positioned, the en trance to bushing D being countersunk, so as to guide the hinge end to proper place, and may be as conveniently removed. It

is adapted for use in windows where the sashes have only swing movement and also where it is desired to swing vertically-moving-sashes, the hinge-bolts when removed being entirely out of the way in sliding the sashes, and the bushings in no way interfere with such movement.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved hinge, including fixed and swinging bushings, and a jointed bolt movable longitudinally in the bushings and interlocking therewith against said movement when partially rotated, substantially as shown and described.

2. An improved hinge consisting of a jointed bolt, bushing D adapted to be fixed and formed with longitudinal slot or depression F having enlargement G, one joint of the bolt being formed with a nib to enter depression F and be turned into enlargement G where it has limited longitudinal movement, and a device for securing the other joint of the bolt to a swinging object, substantially as shown and described.

3. An improved hinge consisting of a jointed bolt having one joint formed with anib, bushing H adapted to be secured to a swinging object and formed with longitudinal slot or depression having enlargement J, the nib of the bolt being adapted to pass through depression J and enter enlargement J to hold the bolt fixed to the bushing, and a device for securing the other joint of the bolt to a fixed obj eot or support, substantially as shown and described. I

4. An improved hinge consisting of a jointed bolt having alined nibs, bushings D and H adapted to be fixed to a support and a swinging object respectively, the bushings being formed with alined depressions to pass the nibs of the bolt, said depressions having lateral enlargements to accommodate the nibs with the bolt in operative position, one of the lateral enlargements being elongated to afford the bolt limited longitudinal movement, for the purpose, substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES J. CLARKE. Witnesses:

A. A. SMITH, O. H. RosENDAHL.

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