Improvements in Metal Casements and Frames.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Casements and Frames.
We, JOSEPH ELLIS WILLIAMS of Berners Street Oxford Street London
and WILFRED NEVILE FREDERIC KEMPTHORNE of 26 Craven Park Road,
Willesden, London Sanitary Engineers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object the collecting of condensed vapour which at
times collects on the surface of windows and conducting it away into certain
required directions.
We carry our invention into practice in manner as hereinafter described.
On the bottom inside face or edge of the framing containing the glass a shoot or
gutter of any required section is fixed or this shoot or gutter can be formed in
one piece of the material composing the casement or frame. One or more openings
or channels may be formed from the bottom or side of the shoot or gutter that is
attached as above described to the casement or frame containing the glass leading
to a supplementary moveable or fixed gutter or pipe and by or from this supple-
mentary gutter or pipe the condensed water or vapour may be taken away in any
required direction by means of any of the usual well-known appliances used for
such purposes.
Dated this 27th day of May 1893.
WM. LLEWELLIN, C.E.,
15, King Square, Bristol, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Casements and Frames.
We JOSEPH ELLIS WILLIAMS of 3 Broad Street Buildings London and
WILFRED NEVILE FREDERIC KEMPTHORNE of 26 Craven Park Road Willesden,
London Sanitary Engineers, 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:-—
Our invention is to avoid the dripping of condensed water that arises when
watery vapour is condensed upon the glass and cold portions of casements on the
side of such casements that are towards the inside of buildings and is designed with
special reference to metal casements that are hinged or pivoted. At the lower end
of the casement is a trough gutter drain or other suitable catchment arrangement
which may or may not be closed at the ends, such drain or other suitable catch-
ment arrangement will be hereinafter termed the trough & so arranged that as the
condensed vapour runs from off the window it is caught in the trough & by means
of channels pierced through the casement rim the condensed water is discharged on
the outside of the casement.
In order that our invention and the method whereby the same is carried into
practice may be clearly understood we annex hereto 1 sheet of explanatory
drawings and the said drawings are to be taken as part of this Specification and
read therewith. Like letters refer to like parts in all the drawings.

page_text: On reference to the figures,
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal elevation of part of the casement looking at it from
the inside of the structure or building.
A is the casement frame which is set in the masonry or other permanent portion
of the structure of the building into the casement frame the casement rim B fits
in a weathertight manner. H is the glass or other glazing material with which the
casement may be fitted. I are the casement bars for holding in the glass or glazing
material. C is the lower part or style of the casement rim and in it or on it is
formed or fixed a trough E. F is the outside portion or surface of the trough E. 1
D are channels or apertures to convey the water collected in the trough E to the
outside of the casement. G are spouts to carry the water clear of the casement
frame.
It will thus be clearly seen that as the water drops down from the casement it
is caught in the trough E and discharged therefrom through the channels D and 1
the spouts G.
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. We claim forming or fixing a trough on the lower inside side of the casement
rim or style in such a manner as to collect water coming down the casement.
2. We claim forming a channel or channels from the said trough through the
lower side or style of the casement rim to discharge the water collected in the
trough to the outside of the casement.
3. We claim the combination of such trough as herein before described and such
channel or channels as hereinbefore described for the purpose of collecting and
discharging water in the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1894.
WM. LLEWELLIN, C.E.,
15, King Square, Bristol, Agent for the Applicants.