New or Improved Means for Rendering Folding or French Windows Rain-proof.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct.,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Means for Rendering Folding or French Windows
Rain-proof.
I, GUSTAV STRUMPFLER, of Salzwedel, Germany, Master Joiner, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
This invention has for its object to render a folding or French window rain-
proof by preventing the rain passing through the window joints. In order to
attain this object a rail of iron or such like is secured to the window in such a
manner that the joints and specially the horizontal one through which the rain
mostly penetrates are covered up.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a view of a window.
Fig. 2 is a section on the line c-d Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a section, to an enlarged scale, on the line ab Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a view of the closing device as seen from the outside.
Fig. 5 is a section on the line e-f of Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawings whereon the same reference letters wherever repeated
indicate the same parts.
As shown at Fig. 3 the weather rail A is so connected to the hinges C as to be
able to turn thereon. The rail A is, as shown on the drawings, secured to the
window frame B by means of 4 hinges C, so that, when the window is opened,
this rail will lie with its large upper part against the slanting window frame
throughout its width as clearly shown at Fig. 3 by the dotted lines f-g. To bring
the rail A into the position shown at h-i Fig. 3 the window sash or leaf is
closed and as a consequence the bolts a, b, attached to the sash, are caused to
abut against the rail and push it into the vertical position. The forcing of the
rail into the vertical position at the closing of the window causes the upper edge
of the rail to bear against the weather board E at the back part of the groove F.
When the rail A is in the vertical position shown at Fig. 3 it effectually closes
the space between the bottom of the window and the frame.
The closing device is, by preference, applied to the lower edges of large windows
and to the upper edges of the small windows, as, in consequence of the bevelled
edges of the window sashes rain-water is liable to enter thereat and drop down
into the room.
The invention can be applied at a very slight cost to old windows.
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
consider novel and desire to claim is:-
A device for closing folding-windows rain-tight consisting of a weather bar
or rail (A) which is so hinged to the window frame that when the window is

page_text: opened the rail lies down upon the slanting surface of the window frame (13),
whilst, when the window is closed, the rail is raised into a vertical position, by
means of devices attached to the window sashes, so as to engage with the weather
board (E) and cover up the joints between the window sashes and the frame,
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 12th day of July 1897
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.