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Description

(No Model.)

(3. MEGOW.

ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SASH.

Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MEGO\V, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIAIJF TO JOIIN Ii. ANDERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

ADJUSTABLE WlNDOW-SASH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,004, dated November 26, 1889..

Application filed August 12, 1889. Serial No. 320,521. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

.lle it known that I, CHARLEs MEGOW, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Adjustable WindoxwSashes; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of window-sashes which are pivoted at their sides, whereby they are adapted to be reversed to permit ready and easy access to them from the inside for the purpose of washing them; and my invention relates particularly to that class of these pivotally-adjustable sashes in which the inside and outside beads and the intervening parting-strips are themselves pivoted, so as to adapt them to be thrown backwardly in the window casing or frame, there by freeing the sashes.

My invention consists in improved details of the construction, arrangen'ient, and co1nbination in this class of adjustable windowsashes, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and easily-operated window the sashes of which can be readily reversed topermit them to be reached.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention,Figure 1 is a perspective view of my adjustable window sashes and frame. Fig. is a front elevation, the lower sash and the lower portion of the window-frame being in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section 011 line 00 a: of Fig. 2. Fig. at is a view of the sliding connecting-iron L.

A is the window frame or casing. lower sash, and C is the upper sash. D is the inside bead. E is the outside bead, and F is the parting-strip. These are all mounted in the sides of the window casing or frame in such a manner as will adapt them to be moved into and out of position, when in the former position projecting inwardly and overlapping the stiles of the sashes, and in the latter position being withdrawn so as to free the sashes. These beads and parting-strip on each side are all pivoted upon cross-shafts G, passing through the window-easing sides near the top thereof, and they are united at their B is the lower ends by means of a cross-plate II, from which a bar I-one on each side-extends inwardly into the sill of the window frame or casing in a suitable groove or seat a therein. Now, by pushing outwardly these slide-bars the beads and parting'strips on each side are all moved outwardly together, turning about their hinged tops as centers and removing themselves from the stiles of the two sashes, which in their normal position they confine to place, forming grooves in which they move. The slide-bar's have hinged arms i, which are adapted to enter grooves a in the windowsill to hold them in a posit-ion eitheroutor in.

In the sides of the window frame or casing and opposite the stiles. of eachsash' are made grooves J, which are faced by separated metal plates on their outer surface, thus forming a kind of T-shaped channel.

In the stiles of each sash are made grooves K, commencing at about their centers and extending downwardly to the lower bar of each sash. These grooves are faced by separated plates 7v.

L are connecting-irons consisting of long bars, which are fitted J and travel in the fiang ed grooves J of the window-casing sides and have shanked buttons or knobs Zprojecting from their centers and fitted in the flanged grooves K of the sash st-iles. To the upper ends of the bars are connected. the weightcords M of the sashes. These bars are by means of the shankcd knobs Zconnocted with the sashes, and they form the runners or guides by which the sashes move up and down, being confined to their seats by the metal flanges or plates j of the grooves J in which they run. The shanked knobs 1, which enter the grooves K of the sash-stiles, form pivots about which said sashes are turned in reversing them, and they also form guides which, traveling in the grooves K of the stiles, enable the sashes to be drawn down within reach after being turned.

The operation of the device is as follows: The sashes move up and down in the usual manner by means of the weights. They are held in normal position by means of the beads and parting-strips, which form the grooves confining them. When it is desired to wash the glass of the sashes, the slide-bars I in the sill of the casin g are forced outwardly, thereby swinging the beads and parting-strips on each side backwardly on their pivotal centers above and freeing the window-sashes. The lower sash is then turned .about' the shanked knobs Z as centers and pulled down within reach, its grooves K traveling over said knobs. The upper sash is then likewise manipulated, whereby the outer side of the glass of each sash may be easily reached.

I am aware that in adjustable sashes of this class the inside and outside beads and the intervening parting-strip have been made movable, so that they might be pushed back out of the way, and thus free the windowsashes, and I do not claim such, broadly, but confine myself to the particular improved constructions described. 7

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

1. In combination with the sliding and swinging window-sashes, the movable and connected inside and outside beads and parting-strips on each side, and a pivotal shaft at the top of said beads and strips, whereby they move outwardly about said shafts as centers, substantially as described.

2. In' combination with the sliding and swinging window-sashes, the movable inside and outside beads and parting-strips on each side, the pivotal shaft on which the upper ends of said beads and strips are mounted, the connecting-plate at the lower ends of said beads and strips, and the slid e-bars extending from said plate inwardly into a seat in the sill of the window-casing, substantially as described.

3. The windowcasing or frame having the grooves J in its sides, with face-plates j and the sashes of the window, in combination with the slide-bars L, mounted in the grooves of the window-casing and having shanked knobs Z, extending therefrom and journaled in the stiles of the sashes, and the weighted window-cords connected with the slide-bars, substantially as described. j

4. The window easing or frame having grooves J in its sides, with face-plates j, the sashes having the grooves K in their stiles, with face-plates 7.;,in combination with the slide-bars L, mounted in the grooves of the window frame or casing and having the shanked knobs Z, projecting therefrom and mounted in the grooves of the sash-stiles, whereby said sashes may be reversed and moved on the knobs, and the weighted window-cords connected with the, slide-bars, substantially as described.

5. The window frame or casing having the grooves J, with face-platesj in its sides, and

the sashes having grooves K, with face-plates k in their stiles, in combination with'the slidebars L, mounted in the grooves of the window frame or casing and having shanked.

knobs Z, mounted in the grooves of the sashstiles, the weighted cords connected with the slide-bars, and the movable inside and outside beads and intervening parting-strips on each side of the window frame or casing, pivoted at their tops and having a connectingplate and slide-bar at their bases, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set in hand.

CHARLES MEGOW.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, H. 0. LEE.

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