US697714A - Corner-post, transom-bar, or mullion. - Google Patents

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No. 697,7l4. Patented Apr. l5, I902. J. GOLDSMITH.

CORNER POST, TRANSOM BAB, 0R MULLION.

(Apphcatmn filed Apr. 30, 1901. (No Model.)

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ATENT OFFICE.

JACOB GOLDSMITH, OF COLUMBUS, OI-IIO, ASSIGNOR TO MAGGIE A. OOULSON,

' OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

CORNER-POST, TRANSOM BAR, OR MULLION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,714, dated April 15, 1902.

Application filed April 30, 1901. Serial No. 58,131. (No model.)

To It whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at O0- lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Posts, Transom- Bars, or Mullions; 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 appertains to make and use the same.

Before my present invention the cornerposts, transom-bars, and mullions of storefronts and other large-paned structures were made entirely of wood, and because of the comparatively weak, flexible, and fragile nature of wood such posts and bars were necessarily made large and bulky in order to secure adequate strength. and rigidity.- Such posts and bars were not only large and bulky, but they were unsightly and oftentimes obstructed to a very considerable extent a satisfactory display and view of the shopkeepers goods.

The purpose of my invention,therefore,is to provide for such windows corner-posts, transom-bars, or mnllions in which the glass plate or pane is to be secured as will be small and compact and yet possessed of such strength and rigidity as to resist the winds and storms of all seasons.

Generally stated, my invention consists of a corner-post, transom-bar, or mullion of wood with a core of angle-bar of metal embedded therein or attached thereto, the wooden por-.

tion being provided with longitudinal recesses for the reception of the glass pane or plate.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating one embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view of a corner-post. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of a transom-bar or a horizontal sectional view of a mullion. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a fraction of a corner-post.

In the several views, 1 designates the wooden portion of the corner-post proper. This is preferably made in one piece; butit can be made in two or more pieces. In the opposite sides of the wooden portion are made recesses 2, adapted to receive the edge of the glass plates 6. Embedded or inserted in a lon gitudinally-extendin g kerf 8 in the wooden portion 1 is the web or tongue portion l of a metallic T-bar 4. This T-bar can be secured to the wooden bar by screws 5, passed through the head of the bar into the wooden portion 1. After the glass is put into place it is secured by wooden stops or strips 7, fastened by nails 8, driven through said stops and into the wooden portion 1.

In Fig. 2, which shows a transom-bar or n1ullion construction, the wooden portion 9 is provided with recesses 10, standing at such an angle that when the glassplates are put in they can lie in the same plane. In this View if the glass designated 6 is the main glass the glass 6 can be the transom-glass. Then the bar 9 in this view is a mullion, the glasses 6 and 6 are simply parts of a main pane or window. A mullion is usually employed where the show-window is extraordinarily large and two or more plates of glass become necessary. 7

From the description and drawings it will be observed that the glass has a seat of wood, which inaterial because of its comparative softness is better adapted to serve as such seat, while the core of the post or bar is of metal, a material adapted to give strength and rigidity and compactness.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-* 1. In a window, a corner-post, transom-bar, or mullion consisting of a bar of Wood, a me tallic an gle-bar attached longitudinally thereto, a recess in the side of the Wood portion to receive the edge of a glass plate or pane, and means to secure the glass in such recess.

2. In a window, a corner-post, transom-bar or mullion of wood, a core of angle-bar of metal therein, a recess in the side of the wood portion to receive the edge of a glass plate or pane, and a stop to secure the glass in such recess.

3. In a window, a corner-post, transom-bar or mullion of wood, a recess in the side of said wood portion to receive a glass plate or pane, and a flanged metallic bar having a flange embedded longitudinally in said wood portion, substantially as described.

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

J AOOB GOLDSMITH.

Witnesses:

GEORGE M. FINOKEL, SAMUEL W. LATHAM.

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