An Improved Automatically-operating Bar Applicable to a Door or Hinged Window for Excluding Cold Air, Rain, Snow, or the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 5th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 8th Nov., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Automatically-operating Bar Applicable to a Door
or Hinged Window for Excluding Cold Air, Rain, Snow, or
the like.
We, THOMAS MURGATROYD, of Cold Shaw, Haworth, Yorkshire, Painter, and
JAMES TURNER of Cross Roads, near Haworth, aforesaid, Painter, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is :-
It consists of the application of a bar to a door or hinged window in such a manner
that when the said door or window is closed, the said bar is automatically pressed
down to the ground or framework beneath (in order to close the opening at the
bottom of the said door or window and so exclude the cold air, rain or snow, etc.,), and
raised when the door is being opened to allow the same to be so opened.
This is attained by mounting in a suitably shaped groove formed at the bottom of
the said door or window, an appropriately formed bar, the same being raised into, or
kept within, the said groove by suitably shaped springs, when the door or window
is open.
To the door-post on each side of the door is fixed a suitably shaped incline, with,
and by which, when the outer ends of the before named bar are brought into connection
as the door is being closed, the said bar is pressed downwards as will easily be seen,
allowing the springs to raise it on the door being again opened.

page_text: We, THOMAS MURGATROYD of Cold Shaw, Haworth, Yorkshire, Painter, and
JAMES TURNER of Cross Roads near Haworth aforesaid, Painter do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is
to say :-
It consists of the application of a bar to a door or hinged window in such a
manner that when said door or window is being closed, said bar is automatically
pressed down to the ground or framework beneath (in order to close the opening
at the bottom of said door or window and so exclude the cold air, rain or snow &c.),
and raised when the door is being opened, to allow same to be so opened.
In order that this said invention may be more readily understood, hereunto
appended is a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof the same bearing letters and
figures of reference used in the following description.
Fig. 1 is a view of a door as seen from within the room to which it is applied, said
door being shewn as closed.
Fig. 2 is a top view of fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail drawings hereinafter
referred to.
The object above set forth is attained by mounting in a suitably shaped groove,
which may be formed by any appropriate covering as metal, wood, etc., as will be
well understood, at the bottom of the door a an appropriately formed bar b, which
may be hinged by the link c c to said door a so that when the spring d is allowed to
raise it (said bar as when the door a is open), its outer end, preferably on the
opposite side of the door a to that by which said door a is hinged as at e, will project
a suitable distance in order to come in contact with the incline piece fixed on the
door post g. This incline piece f is so shaped or formed that as the door a is being
closed it imparts a somewhat lateral as well as downward movement to the bar b, by
which means said bar bis very easily placed in its desired position when the door
is closed.
By dispensing with the links c c and placing another incline piece ƒ on the other
door post g (in this case the bar 6 being made to project on each side of the door a)
it will readily be seen that the same object may be accomplished but not so easily as
by the described arrangement.

page_text: Instead of the incline piece of a bowl or pulley might be employed, which
operating somewhat as a moveable incline, would accomplish the object desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The incline piece f, bar b, links c c and spring d in combination, the same being
constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.
2. The bowl or pulley h, bar b, links cc and spring d in combination, the same
being constructed and arranged to operate substantially as specified.
Dated this 4th day of October 1887
MOORHOUSE & HEY,
Agents.