US705260A - Sash fastener. - Google Patents

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Y No. 705,260. Patmd luly 22, |902.

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SASH FASTENER.

(Application filed' Nov. 1, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. LODOR, OF VILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N 0. 705,260, dated July 22, 1902.

Application filedNovember l, 1901. Serial Noi 8018241 (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAMES C. LoDoR, acitizen of the United States, residing at Wilmington, in the county of New Hanover and State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sash-Fasteners for Car and other Windows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sash-fasteners for car and other windows, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-operated fastener of the character referred to which will permit the window to be freely raised and lowered with the exertion of very slight force or power, which will effectually lock the window in any position to which it may be adjusted, which will securely hold the Window against rattling in its frame, and by means of which the windows may be closed thoroughly dust, air, and water tight.

To these ends my invention consists in the features and inthe construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims following the description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specication, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in front elevation, showing my improved fastenerapplied topa carwindow. Fig. 2 is aftransverse horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of vFig-1.

Fig. 3 is 'a view similar to Fig.' 1, showing a' slightly-modilied construction; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a detail view of aportion of one of the eccentric-rods.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a car-window sash, and 2the frame in which it is arranged to slide, both sash and frame being of ordinary or any preferred construction'. Arranged adjacent to the opposite sides of the windowframe 2 are two vertical rods 3, each being provided with parallel circumferential or an'-Y n'ular ribs- 4, preferably V-shaped in crosssection, or, in other words, the rods are circumferentially corrugated, the corrugations being preferably V-shaped. The opposite ends of each rod have formed thereon pivot projections or trunnions 5, said trunnions or pivots being in vertical alinement and each being-arranged eccentrically to the vertical lower ends of the rods'3 passing through said i sill; but it will be obvious that brackets of any construction suitable for the purpose may be employed and that the lower brackets may be arranged on'the upper side of or above the sill. On the lower end of each eccentric-rod is formed or fixed a radially-projecting 4lug 8, and to said lug is pivotally connected one eind of a link or connecting-rod 9, the other end of said rod being reduced to form a shouldered tenon 10, as most clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The two links 9 are disposed in alinement with one another, their adjacent tenoned ends' being slightly separated, as shown, and fitted over the tenons 10 is a compressed coiled spring 11, that operates to force said links apart or in opposite direc- .together at their" points of intersection in manner similar to apair of tongs. The outer -or free endsofthe 'levers 12 are suitably shaped sothat the two may simultaneously be grasped by vthehan'd, and pivotally attached to one of said free ends is one end of a lever or latch 13, the other end thereof being adapted to engage a notch 14:,formed on the -inner side of the free end of the other lever,

and thus hold the ends of said levers positivelyV spread apart. "The two levers may be i conveniently pivoted together by a screw 15,

which is screwed into the Vwindow-sill, and also serves to attachthereto the fastener-actuating mechanism' described, Fitted in or attached to theopposite inner sides of the stiles 15 of the window-sash are pads orblocks 16 of rubber or other suitable yieldingmaterial, which are so' arranged relatively to the eccentric-rods 3 that they will be engaged by the ribs of the latter when saidl rods are turned in theproper direction.

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SASH FASTENER.

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Patented July 22, |902.

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Application ined Aug. 12, 1901.)

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