Improvements in and connected with Window Frames and Sashes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1885
Comp ete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 14th Mar. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Window Frames and Sashes.
I, SAMUEL SMITH of No. 10 St. George's Road, Aldershot in the County of
Hants Foreman Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows.-
My invention relates to improvements in and connected with window frames and
sashes and consists in improved provision for the removal of the sashes from their
frames.
In carrying the invention into effect, the sides of the frame are grooved or
rebated to receive the internal stops or beads. Each of the latter is in two
lengths. The lower length is to be detachable from the frame while the upper
length is fixed to the fiame. The detachable leugth is held to the frame by
catches, studs, or the like adapted to enter and engage with corresponding holes in
plates fixed flush with the surface of the respective sash frame. There is a suitable
distance left between the two lengths of a bead to permit of the necessary vertical
sliding motion incidental to the act of detaching or engaging. For holding the
detachable length of head to the frane, there may be used pairs of plates: one plate
of each pair being fixed to the frame and the other one to be halved at one end
to lap over the other: the one which is halved being fixed to the detachable
length aforesaid. A sliding cap is provided to cover the suitable distance described
above as being left between the two lengths of bead.
The paiting fillets are rehated on one edge. Each one is in two parts, to be
held to the frame in substantially the same way as described with reference to the
beads already described. A spring and clip is fixed in the groove behind the
parting fillet to hold the cap (provided to cover the suitable distance between
the two parts) in position. The sash styles are rebated to allow of the sashes
falling inwards cleat of the sash lines.
Dated the 9th day of Nov 1895
HENRY H LEIGH,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Window Frames and Sashes.
I, SAMUEL SMITH, of No. 10, St. George's Road Aldershot, in the County of
Hante, Foreman Joiner, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in and counected with window frames
and sashes, and consists in providing for turning the sashes inwards from the
flames.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved window frame and sashes
showing the two sashes closed.

page_text: Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same takon on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a similar section, wherein the upper sash 13 shewn closed and the
Lower sash turned inwards from the frame.
Figure 4 is a sectional plan taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.
Figure 5 shews a front and side view of one of the lower front detachable beads
provided with a catch.
Figure
is a front view corresponding with Figure 1, the lower sash being in
its uppermost position and the upper sash in its lower most position, so that the
latter sash may be turned inwards from the frame.
Figure 7 is a vertical section taken on the line 7-7 of Figure 6, shewing the
lower detachable front and parting beads removed and the upper sash ready for
being turned inward, as indicated by the dotted lines.
Figures 8, 9 and 10 represent a houzontal section, a front view and a sectional
side view, respectively, of one of the front beads drawn to a larger scale.
Figure 11 18 a side view and a plan of one of the lower detachable parting
beads.
Figures 12, 13 and 14 are a front view, a side view and a horizontal section,
respectively, showing one of the parting bends drawn to a larger scale.
In these drawings, wherein similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts, A designates the window frame; B, the upper sash; C, the lower_sash;
F, the upper fixed parting beads; G, the lower detachable parting beads; D, the
upper fixed font beads, E, the lower detachable front beads.
In carrying my said invention into effect, the sides of the frame A are grooved
or rebated to receive the upper fixed parting beads F and the lower detachable
parting beads G which are rebated on one of their edges and furnished with
catches a adapted to engage with a plate & secured to the said framo. A suitable
space is left between the upper fixed front and parting beads D F and the lower
detachable front and parting beads E G to permit of the necessary vertical sliding
motion of the lower beads, for the purpose of enabling the latter to be turned
nwards from the frame or to be put in their place. Sliding caps c and d, provided
with springs e to prevent slipping, cover the space left between the ends of the
upper fixed beads D F and the lower detachable beads E G.
can arrange the two sashes B and C in such a manner that when closed they
will occupy the position shewn in Figures 1 and 2, in which the top of the upper
sash B bears against a fillet f, and the bottom of the same overlaps the top of the
lower sash C. For cleaning the lower sash the detachable front beads E are
removed so that this sash, as shewn in Figure 3, may be tuned inwards about
its bottom end where the sash line g is fastened to the same. To allow of the
sashes being turned clear of the sash lines, the styles of the sashes are rebated as
illustrated in Figure 4.
For cleaning the upper sash B, it is pulled down until its bottom bears against
the lower part of the frame A, whilst the lower sash C is raised so as to bear
against the upper part of the said frame, as will be seen, in Figures 6 and 7, in
which position the bottom of the sash C and the top of the sash B do not overlap
cach other as in Figures 1 and 2, but leave a space between them so that after
the removal of the lower detachable front and paiting beads the said sash B may
be turned inwards, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
clain is
1. A window frame provided with upper fixed front and parting beade, lower
detachable front and parting beads, and sashes adapted to be turned inwards in
their lowermost position, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2 A window frame provided with fixed and detachable front and parting beads
and with a fillet, substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth.
3. A window frame having fixed and detachable front and parting beads and

page_text: which are furnished with sliding caps, and catches, substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore set forth.
4. In combination with a window frame having fixed and detachable front and
parting beads, sashes furnished with rebates in their styles for allowing them to be
turned clear of the sash lines, as set forth.
5. The improved window frame and sashes constructed and operating substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein before set forth with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Dahin 7th 1a 1000
HENRY HI. LEIGH,
22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.