US820817A - Window frame and sash. - Google Patents

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No. 820,817. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906.

R. F. NICHOLS. WINDOW FRAME AND SASH.

APPLIGATION FILED 0GT.24. 1905.

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WINDOW FRAME AND SASH- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed October 24, 1905. Serial No. 284,164.

To wZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that .1, ROBERT FLEn'rwooD NroiroLs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oakland, in the county of Ala meda and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window Frames and Sashes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide such a construction of window-frame that the window-sashes may be singly or collectively swung within the frame a suflicient distance to enable the outer faces of their panes to, be cleaned without the operator leaving the room or leaning from the window.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide means whereby the sashes may be thus swung inward without entirely leaving the window frame or being disconnected from their balance-weights and also to provide means for holding one or both sashes in their inner positions.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct the window-frame that the sashes may be quickly and conveniently moved, as stated, and as readily and expeditiously restored to their normal osition.

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a windowl'rame having the improvements applied and illustrating the lower sash. as swung inward in a position to have its outer face cleaned. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but both the upper and lower sashes are swung inward and he d in their inner position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the window-frame and sashes, the sashes appearing as in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the lefthand side portion of the window-frame. Fig. 5 is a detail pers ective view of a socketplate and means or connecting the socl etplate and the window-frame, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the locking-arms employed in connection with a window-sash.

A represents a window-frame, B the up per sash, and C the lower sash, the said window-frame being provided with the usual inner stop-beads D and parting-strip D, and

sash cords or chains 10, which are carried over pulleys in the frame in the customary manner and are attached at their opposite ends to balance-weights. The right-hand stop-bead D is made in two sections-an upper normally-fixed section 11 and a lower removable section 12and the parting-strip D is also made in two sections-an upper fixed section 15 and a removable lower section 1. 6 the removable sections of the parting-strip and the stop-bead being about the same llength, and these removable sections of the parting-strip and stop-bead extend from a window-sill, for example, about eight inches meeting-rail of the lower sash; but I do not confine myself to any special length of the said removable sections 12 and16 of said stop-bead and parting-strip. The upper end stop-bead D is provided with a tonguel l, which when said removable section of the sto'i-bead is in position enters a correspondingly-shaped recess 13 in the lower end of the fixed section 11, as is shown in Fig. 4. The lower section of the stop-bead may be held firmly in position by thumb-screws or their equivalents, if so desired.

Screws 17 or pins are located usually be tween the central portion of the right-hand member of the windowirame and the window-sill, and the said pins or screws are made to enter inclined slots 18, produced in the outer edge of a socket-plate 19, whose inner edge is provided with an upper vertical sleeve 20 and a lower vertical sleeve 21, so that, it will be observed, the said socket-plate 19 may be removably connected with the windowframe. I desire it to be understood that other devices may be employed for attaching it to the window-frame without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In connection with the socket-plate 19 two locking- bars 22 and 23 are employed, and each locking-bar is provided at its outer end with a downwardly-extending member 24, adapted to enter one of the said sleeves member 25 at the opposite end, adapted to enter an opening 26 in the right-hand stile of a window-sash.

of the lower or removable section 12 of the The upper locking-arm 22 is employed in connection with the lower both sashes are shown as being provided with above the normal position of the upper 20 or 21, and with a horizontally-projecting sash and is slightly longer than the lower locking-arm 23, which is employed in connection with the upper sash.

In the operation of cleaning the windows, the sashes being in their normal position, the lower sash is removed or taken out by removing the lower section 12 of the righthand stop-bead D, as is shown in Fig. 1, and then swinging the lower sash at its right-hand stile into the room in such manner that its left-hand stile will still be in its sash-groote and in engagement with the left-hand partingstrip, as is shown in Fig. 3. The lower sash C is held in said position by means of an upper locking-arm 22, which is made to enter the opening 26 in the right-hand stile of the said lower sash and the upper sleeve 20 of the socket-plate, as is also shown in Fig. 1. After the lower sash has been placed in position for cleaning the upper sash is-lowered and the lower section 16 of the right-hand parting-strip D is removed and the right hand stile of the said upper sash is swung into the room, as was the corresponding stile of the lower sash. The upper sash is now held in position by means of the lower lock ing-arm 23, connected with its right-hand stile and the lower sleeve 21 in the socketplate 19, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The operation of cleaning may now be commenced. The outside of the top sash is first cleaned. Then the sash is put back into the frame and its inside is cleaned before raising to place, and the removed section of the righthand parting-strip is restored. After the top sash is placed in normal position the outside of the lower sash is cleaned, replaced in the frame, and its inside is then cleaned, and the removed section of the right-hand stop-bead is replaced. Thus it will be observed that the panes of both sashes may be I cleaned inside and out without necessitating l the operator leaning from the window to the slightest extent.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A window-frame having a section of its stop-bead and a corresponding section of its parting-strip removable, whereby the win dow-sashes may be swung into a room at one of their sides, locking-arms for holding the sashes in their inner position, and means for engagement by said arms, comprising a plate having a plurality of sockets for receiving the arms, and a plurality of parallel diagonal recesses, and screws on the frames for engagement by the recesses.

2. A window-frame having the stop-bead at one side and the parting-strip at the same side constructed in sections of equal length, corresponding sections being removable, window-sashes mounted in the said frame, having their stiles opposite the sectional parting-strip and stop-bead provided with openings, a detachable socket-plate for attachment to the frame and locking-arms connected with the socket-plate and adapted for connection with the window sashes through the medium of said openings.

3. A window-frame having its partingstrip and its stop-bead at one side in two sections, the lower sections whereof are removable from the frame, an upper and a lower sash carried by the frame, a socket-plate removably connected with the frame, and removable locking-arms connected with the socket-plate and adapted for connection with the stiles of the said sashes which are opposite the sectional stop-bead and partingstrip, such attachment being made when the said stiles have been swung inward and upon the removal of the lower sections of the said stop-bead and parting-strip.

4. In a window-frame and sashes therefor, the said window-frame being provided at one side with a sectional stop-bead and a sectional parting-strip, the lower sections of such parts being removable from the frame and the stiles of the window-sashes opposite the sectional portions of the stop-bead and parting-strip being provided with apertures, a removable socket-plate connected with the window frame, the said plate being provided with independent socket-sections, and a lockingarm for each sash, which arms are provided with downwardly-extending lugs at their outer ends and horizontally-extending lugs at their inner ends, the outer lugs of the said arms being adapted to enter the socket-sections of the socket-plates and the inner lugs of the arms being adapted to enter the side stiles of the sashes.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ROBERT FLEETWOOD NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

T. A. WHITE, DAVID MITCHELL.

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