A New or Improved Weather Bar for Windows.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1900—Accepted, 7th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Weather Bar for Windows.
I, JAMES BOARDALL, of Clare Road, Wike, near Bradford, in the County of
York, Warp Dresser, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved weather bar for windows more
particularly French windows that is to say windows hung on side hinges and
opening inwardly and its object is to provide simple means for excluding rain
and water.
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For French windows I fix strips of sheet metal along the sides and bottom of
the fixed window frame and the inner edges of these strips are bent over in an
outward direction so as to be more or less "U shaped in cross section with
the concavity lying towards the outside. The bent portion instead of being
"U" shaped in cross section may be square or angular or it may be rounded.in
the form of a bead. In any case the sash is grooved or rabbeted along the sides
and bottom so as to close completely over the turned up portion of the strips.
The strips may only be fixed along the hinged side and along the bottom of
the window frame. Un in the case of ordinary sliding sashes along the bottom
of the frame only.
The side by which the strips are secured to the frame may be considerably
broader than the bent portion.
Dato this 26th day of May 1899.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
1, JAMES BOARDALL, of Clare Road, Wike, near Bradford, in the County of
York, Warp Dresser, 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:-
This invention relates to a new or improved weather bar for windows more
particularly French windows that is to say windows hung on side hinges and
opening inwardly and its object is to provide simple means for excluding rain
and water.
For this purpose I fix strips of sheet metal along the sides and bottom of the
fixed window frame and the inner edges of these strips are bent over in an out-
ward direction so as to be more or less "U" shaped in cross section with the

page_text: concavity lying towards the outside. The bent portion instead of being
"U" shaped in cross section may be square or angular or it may be rounded in
the form of a bead. In any case the sash is grooved or rabbeted along the sides
and bottom so as to close completely over the turned up portion of the strips.
The strips may only be fixed along the hinged side and along the bottom of the
window frame. Or in the case of ordinary sliding sashes along the bottom of the
frame only.
The side by which the strips are secured to the frame may be considerably
broader than the bent portion.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents an inner view of a French window fitted with my improved
weather bars and having one of its sashes shown open.
Figure 2, is a sectional plan of the same without the open window.
Figure 3, is a cross section of the bottom of the frame on a larger scale.
The frame 2, may be of any construction and the weather bar is fixed along
the bottom 4 of the frame by its flap 3. The inner side 5 of the bar is turned
up as clearly shown in section in Figure 3 and the bottom rails 6 of the sashes
have rabbets 7 to pass over the turned up edge 5. Similar weather bars 8 may
be secured up the sides of the frame 2 and grooves 9 made in the frame to
receive the turned in edges 10.
If a bead or facing 12 is fixed along the bottom of the frame outside, holes 13
(Figure 3) are made through it to allow water to escape.
Figure 4, represents a cross section of a modified form of weather bar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
A weather bar for windows of the improved form herein described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of February 1900.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents. Bradford.