Holding-devices suitable for Connecting Sash-cords to Window- sashes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Holding-devices suitable for Connecting Sash-cords to Window-
sashes.
I, LAWRENCE ROBSON of 2 Rose Mount Villas, East Parade Harrogate, in
the County of York, Land Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a simple and inexpensive construction of holding-
device for readily connecting sash-cords to window-sashes in such manner that they
can be readily disconnected therefrom when it is desired to remove the sashes from
the window-frame.
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A holding-device according to this invention consists of a bracket having a
socket that may be of truncated conoidal shape and the orifice at the small end of
which is somewhat greater in diameter than the sash-cord, whilst the orifice at the
large end is of sufficient size to admit a knot made on the end of the sash-cord.
one side of the socket there is formed a longitudinal opening which extends
throughout the length of the socket and is of a width such as to allow the sash-
cord to be easily passed therethrough. The socket is adapted to be screwed to the
window-sash by means of two flanges extending outwardly from the said opening
and above and below the socket, the opening being widened out at the bottom or
the flanges being there cut away to allow of the easy passage of the knot of the
sash-cord. The shape of the said flanges may be variously modified.
Assuming the holding-devices to be affixed in a sash with their sockets in the
wood-work, then when the cords connected to the sash-weights are inserted through
the openings in the flanges the knots placed in the large ends of the couoidal
sockets, and the sash placed in the window-frame, the weight of the sash on the
cords will cause the knots to ascend into the upper smaller ends of the sockets
where they will become securely fixed. In order to disconnect the sash-cords from
the sash the sash is taken out of the window-frame and each sash-cord is pulled down
the opening between the flanges of the corresponding holding-device until the
kuot is freed from its socket, alter which the cords can be easily removed from
the sash.
Instead of being provided with a conoidal socket, the holding-device may consist
of two flanges separated by a space similar to the opening hereinbefore referred to
and connected together by a cross-piece provided with a slot, that resembles the
shape of a key-hole and communicates with the space between the flanges. The
underside of the cross-piece may be either perpendicular or inclined to the flanges
and may be either flat or concave at the part against which the knot is designed
to bear.
Dated this 1st dar of August 1801

page_text: Holding-devices suitable for Connecting Sash-cords to Window-
sashes.
I, LAWRENCE ROBSON, of Rose Mount Villas, East Parade, Harrogate, in the
County of York, Land Agent, 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 has reference to a simple and inexpensive construction of holding-
device for readily connecting sash-cords to window-sashes in such manner that they
can be readily disconnected therefrom when it is desired to remove the sashes from
the window-frame.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a rear elevation,
Fig. 2 a side elevation ;
Fig. 3 a front elevation; and
Fig. 4 a plan showing a holding-device according to my invention.
It consists of a bracket having a socket a of truncated conical or conoidal shape
the orifice at the small and upper end being somewhat greater in diameter than
the sash-cord, whilst the orifice e at the large end is of sufficient size to admit a
knot made on the end of the sash-cord. In one side of the socket there is formed
a longitudinal opening d which extends throughout the length of the socket and is
of a width such as to allow the sash-cord to be easily passed therethrough. The
socket is adapted to be screwed to the window-sash by means of the two bracket
plates or flanges, which are provided with counter-sunk screw holes
extend outwardly from the said opening and above and below the socket, the
flanges being as shewn cut away at the bottom to allow of the easy passage of
the knot of the sash-cord. The shape of the flanges may be variously modified;
as may also the form of the socket. Instead of cutting away the flanges as
just mentioned the opening may for a like purpose be widened out at the
bottom.
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Assuming two such holding-devices to be affixed in a sash with their sockets
in the wood-work, then when the cords connected to the sash-weights are inserted
through the openings between the flanges f, e, the knots placed in the large
ends of the conoidal sockets, and the sash placed in the window frame, the weight
of the sash on the cords will cause the knots to ascend into the upper smaller ends
of the sockets where they will become securely fixed. In order to disconnect the
sash-cords from the sash the sash is taken out of the window-frame and each
sash-cord is pulled down the opening a between the flanges of the corresponding
holding-device until the knot is freed from its socket, and is thereby detached from
the sash.
Fig. 5 is a front elevation,
Fig. 6 a side elevation, and
Fig. 7 a plan showing a modified construction of holding device according to
this invention.
In this arrangement instead of being provided with a conoidal socket, the
holding-device consists of two perforated Hanges i, k separated by a space / similar
to the opening d hereinbefore referred to and connected together by a cross-piece m
provided with a slot or opening n, that in plan resembles the shape of a key-bole
and which communicates with the space between the flanges. The underside of
the cross-piece is shewn as perpendicular but if desired may be inclined to the
flanges i, and may be either flat or concave at the part o against which the knot
on the sash cord is designed to bear.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is :-
Holding-devices suitable for connecting sash-cords to a window-sash, constructed
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference respectively to and shown
in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive and in Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive of the drawings
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Dated this 1st day of May 1895.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.