Improvements in Devices for Adjusting and Fixing the Angle of Swing Toilet Glasses, Fanlights, Ventilators, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct.. 1896-Accented, 24th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Adjusting and Fixing the Angle of
Swing Toilet Glasses, Fanlights, Ventilators, and the like.
I, JOHN GEORGE CARTER of The Rectory, Hale, Salisbury in the County of
Wiltshire, Clerk in Holy Orders do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved device for adjusting and fixing swing toilet
glasses at any desired angle, and has for its object to provide a means whereby the
said glass when once placed at the desired angle, cannot move spontaneously from
such position, as obtains with all known methods hitherto employed when these
become worn or smooth.
For the purposes of my invention I punch, stamp, or otherwise produce from any
suitable sheet metal, a straight or curved plate having for the major part of its
length a longitudinal slot centrally or thereabouts of its width, in either or both
sides of which the substance of the metal is removed to form notches ratchet or
other teeth, serrations or the like. The said plate is provided at one end with a
hole for the reception of a screw or pin by the means of which the said end may
be pivotally mounted upon the standard at either side of the said glass, while a
pin or stud attached to the side of the frame of the glass, may pass through the
said slot in the plate and by allowing the said pin to engage with either of the said
notches, teeth or the like in the said plate, the glass may be fixed at any angle
within the limit of the said slot, and I may arrange that the glass be fixed at such
angle by the means of a fly or other nut screwed upon the said pin in the slot.
As an alternative arrangement, and for use with small or cheap glasses, I may
provide a similar plate of lesser width, and form ratchet or other teeth, notches,
or serrations upon the outer edge of the side intended to be the lower when in use,
so that the plate may engage with the pin or stud upon the glass with or without
the use of a nut.
In large or heavy glasses I may employ the said device in duplicate, one upon
the pillar or standard at each side of the glass, and both engaging with the glass
in either of the manners stated.
By a slight modification of the foregoing arrangement, I may employ the said
device in connection with casements, fanlights, greenhouses, ventilators and the
like, either singly or in pairs.
Dated 10
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Adjusting and Fixing the Angle of
Swing Toilet Glasses, Fanlights, Ventilators, and the like.
I, JOHN GEORGE CARTER of The Rectory, Hale, Salisbury, in the County of
Wiltshire, Clerk in Holy Orders 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 an improved device applicable for the adjustment and

page_text: fixation of swing toilet glasses, casements, fanlights, ventilators and the like, at any
desired angle, and has for its objects, to provide a means whereby the said glasses
or the like, when placed at the desired angle, cannot move spontaneously from
such position, as obtains with all known methods hitherto employed, when these
become worn or smooth.
To enable my invention to he the more readily understood, I have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings, in which I have chosen to illustrate my invention as
applied to toilet glasses.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of one method of forming the device constituting my
invention, detached from the toilet glass or the like.
Fig. 2 is also a detached plan view of an alternative and cheaper inethol of
forming the said device.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of Fig. 1 showing how this engages with a bolt or
pin for holding the glass or the like in the position desired, Fig. 4 being a
perspective view of the bolt or pin and milled edged nut, shewn detached for
clearness of illustration.
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a toilet glass with my said device attached
thereto.
For the purposes of my invention, according to one method of forming the same
as at Fig. 1, I punch, stamp, or otherwise produce from any suitable sheet metal, a
straight or curved plate A, having for the major part of its length, a longitudinal
slot B, preferably centrally of its width, in the upper side of which the substance
of the metal is removed to forin notches, ratchet or other teeth, serrations or the
like C, at an equal or otherwise predetermined distance apart. The said plate is
provided at one end a, with a hole 6 for the reception of a screw or pin, (not shewn)
by the means of which the said end a may be pivotally connected to, and upon the
standard D as at Fig. 5, at either or both sides of the said glass E. A pin or
stud FI attach by the means of a plate G, to the side or sides of the frame of the
glass E, which, by passing through the said slot B in the plate A, may engage
with either of the notches, teeth or the like C as at Figs. 3 and 5, so that the
glass E may be fixed at any angle within the limit of the slot B, as shewn in full
and dotted outline in the latter figure, and for the purposes of more effectually
fixing the glass E at such angle desired, I provide a fly, inilled or other nut H, to
be screwed upon the said pin as shewn in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 and so bite against the
plate A.
As an alternative arrangement, and for use with small or cheap glasses, I may
dispense with the slot B and provide a plate substantially as at A2 Fig. 2, of lesser
width and straight or curved as desired, and form ratchet or other teeth, serrations
or the like C upon the lower edge of same so that the said teeth or the like C may
engage with the pin or stud Fin the same way as in the previous method for the
purposes described, which may be kept in the position placed by the aid of the
same milled-edged, fly, or other nut H.
For large or heavy glasses I may find it desirable to employ the device shewn
by Figs. 1, 3 and 4 in duplicate, one upon the pillar or standard D at each
side of the glass E, both operating simultaneously in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Although I have chosen to illustrate my invention as applied to toilet glasses, it
will be readily understood that by a slight modification of the foregoing arrange-
ment, and that shewn in the drawings, I may employ the said device in connection
with casements, fanlights, greenhouses, ventilators and the like either singly or
in pairs.
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
claim is :-
1st. The herein described device or apparatus for adjusting and fixing the angle
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page_text: glass at the angle desired for the purposes stated and shewn by the appended
drawings.
2nd. In a device or apparatus for adjusting and fixing at any angle, swing toilet
glasses, casements, fanlights and the like, the combination of a straight or curved
plate A, connected at a point 6 with the standard or supports D of such a glass E.
or the frame of the casement, fanlight or the like, the frame of E having fixed
thereto a threaded pin or stud F passing through a slot B in the plate A, the glass
or the like E being fixed at any angle by the said stud F engaging with one of a
number of notches or teeth such as C in A, and retained thereat by the means
of a suitable nut H, substantially as herein described and shewn by the appended
drawings.
3rd. In a device or apparatus as set forth in the preceding claim, the employ-
ment of a straight or curved plate such as A2, having notches or the like C in.
substitution for the plate A substantially as described and shewn.
1000
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.