Improvements in Apparatus for Raising, Lowering, and Holding in Any Position the Windows of Railway and other Carriages.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 10th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Raising, Lowering, and Holding in
Any Position the Windows of Railway and other Carriages.
I THOMAS HUNT of Gorton Foundry Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To the lower side of the window frame a pin or other suitable device is
attached to which the handle for operating on the window is connected-the
handle projects through the internal casing of the door or frame in which it slides
and in which casing is a vertical groove of sufficient length to allow of the
window being fully raised and lowered and on one or both sides of the groove
are projections on which the operating handle rests at any required position of
the window.
Dated this 20th dow of Mosh 1900
THOS. HUNT,
Gorton Foundry, Manchester.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Raising, Lowering, and Holding in
Any Position the Windows of Railway and other Carriages.
I THOMAS HUNT of Gorton Foundry Manchester in the County of Lancaster
Engineer 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 improvements relates to apparatus for raising lowering and holding in any
position the windows of railway and other carriages and is described as follows-
To the lower side of the window frame a pin or other suitable device is attached
to which the handle for operating on the window is connected. The handle pro-
jects through the inner casing of the door in which it slides and in which casing
there is a vertical groove of sufficient length to allow of the windows being fully
raised or lowered and on one or both sides of the groove are projections on which
the operating handle rests at any required position of the window.
Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings is an elevation of the inside of a carriage door the
inner casing of which is of wood. Fig. 3 an elevation of the inside of a carriage
door the inner casing of which is lined in the usual way on each side of the groove.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the door, and Fig. 4 the operating handle and pin on
which it swivels.
A is the carriage door, A' the inner casing of wood, A2 the lining on each side of
the groove, B the window, C the pin attached to the window frame on which is
pointed the handle D for raising and lowering the window, E the groove in which the
handle D slides, F projections for holding the window in any position, G the lips on the
window frame and door which overlap each other to keep out the weather when the
window is closed, which lips may be used or not and when not used the weather is
kept out in the usual way by the window frame filling the space in the door in which
it slides.
The operation of raising, lowering, and holding the window in any position is
performed by moving the handle D to any position in the groove and there swiveling
it sideways on to the required projection.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the said is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The raising; lowering, and holding in any position, the windows of railway
and other carriages, by means of a handle projecting through the inner casing of the
door, and moving in a vertical groove substantially as herein described.
2nd. The holding of the window in any position by means of projections in a
groove in the inner casing of the door substantially as herein described.
Dated this 4th day of December 1890.
THOS. HUNT.