US84504A - Improvement in sash-holder - Google Patents

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Lette/rs Patent No. 84,504, dated December l, 1868.-

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-HOLDER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent:` and making of the same.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be itknown that I, J 01amY OBREITER., of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Window-Sash Support and Lock and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact A'description of the construction and operation thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in Which- Figure lshows a portion of a window-frame and sash, with my device in place.

Figure 2 shows the lever drop-latch and its bearing combined, and separated from the casing.

The bearingfplateA, iig. 3, has a right-angled base, l

with a double or slotted top, a, a', bent so as to form a recess, c, for the reception ofthe trunnions or fulcrum d d of the armed .drop-latch B. This drop-latch Bl swings forwardV in the open slot b in the bearing-plate and bearings c, so that the elbowed arm or lever j' comes in front ofthe plate, and projects to one side, as shown by fig. 2. Both parts are clearly shown by fig. 3.

Fig. `l shows one of the combined devices inserted into the' casing for each sash. Both upper and lower sashes, 1, 2, are down, showing the drop' B projecting. The upper end of the catch e is bid,tl1e upper lip curved, so as to yield in raising the sash, and then fall forward, while the lower lip holds and prevents the sash from coming down, withoutrst relieving the lip by turning .the lever-arm'j, but does not prevent the sash from being raised, from slot to slot, o'r v,from notch to notch, upwards, until raised to the top.

square slots; the other, ratchet-like teeth; The former is preferred. This plate G is let flush into the sash on the side of the drop-latch. The operation is so that the head of the swinging drop-lever lB falls in the slot with the lower lip,'and against the same by the upper lip, c.

The lever f extends through beneath the guide or slidestrips 3 or 4, and is operated from the inside.

The upper sash, 2, when down, as shown, behind the lower sash, -I, does not lock while down, as the lower sash does..

To raise the lower sash, 1,'tl1e lever f must first release the head ofthe drop-bolt B from the upper open slot g, into which it falls fully, and holding it firmly locked. The upper sashlo'cks `in like manner, when pushed up into place. In short, it answers -all the requisite purposes of a` sash-supporter and lock in a superior manner, readily applied, cheap, strong, and not liable to get outof repair.

Backs and slotted bars are not new for such purposes; as also various kinds of bolts and contrivances are in use-and patented for sash-supports; but I am -not aware of any device. that is substantially constructed in thefmanner shown, nor one that can be so well adapted for supporting the sash in railroad-cars, or for heavy windows, and one that can more easily be operated, will support or lockmore securely, or be as durable and as cheap. g

' JOHN OBREITER.

Witnesses WM. B. WILEY, JACOB STAUFFER.

Fig.,4 shows two plates, Gr G. Thel one has open,

'What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure I

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