US981189A - Plate-glass setting. - Google Patents

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W. R. GRISSEL-& H. S. JOSSELYN. PLATE GLASS SETTING. APPLICATION FILED 11.11, 10.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

. 22 Nl! W 'UNITED OFFICE.)

WALTER R. GRISSEL AND HENRY S. JOSSELYN, 0F CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

PLATE-GLASS SETTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 10, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WALTER R. Gaussian and HENRY S. JossELYN, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plate-Glass Settings, of which the following is a specifica tion, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in plate glass settings, and has for its primary object to provide a setting which Wlll permit of the plate glass being placed in position from the outside of the building, and thereby greatly facilitate the set-ting ofplate glass in position.

vide means whereby to effectually resist the heavy wind pressure to which large glass plates are subjected and to reduce to a m ni- 'mum the danger of the plate glass being broken under such pressure.

With the above broad objects in view, and other minor ones which will appear as the invention is more fully described, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described and then particularly claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this a-pplica tion and wherein like numerals of reference will be employed to indicate like parts throughout the different views in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a window partly broken away and illustrating the application of our improved setting thereto; Fig. 2 is a detail sectlonal view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detached view in rear elevation of a part of one of the securing strips for the late glass, and, Fig. 5 is a bottom view 0 the same.

In the drawings, 10 designates the frame of the window, which, in order to accommodate a setting constructed in accordance with our invention is provided with an outwardly-extending off-set or strip 11 extending at right angles to the frame 10, andv fixedly secured thereto.

the window frame, and the outer face of This offset or strip is of considerably less width than the frame 10, thereby providing a recess all around plate glass 15 is preferably supported along:

its lower edge by supporting blocks 16 which in practice, we have preferably made from sheets of lead, the same forming a very desirableas well as cheap support for the glass. The openinglin the frame which receives the glass is ma, e somewhat larger than the dimensions of the glass plate, and in practice Another object of the invention is to prowe have made said opening of a size so'that andvwhich'lin practice are so shaped as-to provide a face plate t'o-represent any desired molding or heading. These strips 17 are secured to blocks 18 by means of which the shape of the strips is retained and through which arepassed the hold-fastdevices 19 by which the securing strips are firmly alt-II tached to the frame. The said strips "are each turned inwardly along its outer edge to form an underlying portion spaced from the face plate and provided substantially mid-way its width with a longitudinallyextending. rib 20 which engages the outer face of the glass plate 15 at a point in line with the corrugated strip 14. The blocks 18 are placed within the securing strip 17 at intervals, usually about a foot apart, being so shaped as to conform to the face plate with a portion projecting into the space between the face plate and the underlying portion and between these blocks the seouter edges of the baffle plates 22 are in line with the rear edges of the strips 17, and these baffle plates being placed directly be low the openings 23, tend to prevent a free suction of dust into the building through the "entilati'ng and drip openings 23. p

The blocks 18 may be made of any desired material, and on their inner faces are preferably provided with recesses in which are seated rubber or other resilient blocks 24, through which the hold-fast devices 19 are passed, the said resilient blocks or buffersQL extending a slight distance beyond zthe inner faces of the blocks 18 and resting against the metal facing 12. By this construction it will'be observed that the plate glass'is yieldingly seated to resist inward pressure, the corrugated metal strips 14 yielding under pressure Whichwould force the the rib 20 yielding under such pressure.

glass inwardly, and the glass is also yieldingly seated against any outward pressure,

Since the strips 17 are also. yieldingly mounted owing to the provision of the buffers 2 1, it will be observed that the holdfast devices may be firmly turned home, the

bufie'rs 24L compressing under the tightening sure so as to prevent breaking, and danger of the glass breaking during its return movement when the pressure is relieved is also entirely obviated by reason of the yielding means employed for securing the glass in position.

What we claim is:

1. In a plate glass setting, the combination with a frame to receive the plate glass, of a yieldingly-mounted securing strip binding the glass at its edges to the frame, said strip formed of sheet metal bent to form a face plate and a backwardly-bent outer edge underlying theface plate and spaced there from, said underlying portion provided with a rib to engage the plate lass, strengthening blocks with which the face plate of said strip engages between the face plate and the underlying portion of the strip, and securing means passing through t 1e strip and blocks and into the frame.

-2. In a plate glass setting, the combination with a frame, of a securing strip formed of sheet metal bent to form a face plate and an underlying portion spaced from the face plate, said underlying portion having a rib intermediate its edges, strengthening blocks against which the face plate rests and having portions projecting into the space between the face plate and the underlying portion of the strip, and means for securing the strip and blocks to the frame.

In testimony whereof we affix our signa- M tures in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER R. GRISSEL. HENRY s. JOSSELYN.

lVitnesses L. M. CAVANAUGH, A. H. CONN.

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