IM- PROVEMENTS IN SASHES AND FRAMES AND IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE CLEANING, PAINTING, AND REPAIRS OF WINDOWS AND SASHES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nathan Ager, of No. 28, Grosvenor Road,
Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN SASHES AND FRAMES AND IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING
THE CLEANING, PAINTING, AND REPAIRS OF WINDOWS AND SASHES."
Sealed the 17th June 1873, and dated the 19th December 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nathan Ager at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th December 1872.
I, NATHAN AGER, of No. 28, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
** IMPROVEMENTS IN SASHES AND FRAMES AND IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING
THE CLEANING, PAINTING, AND REPAIRS OF WINDOWS AND SASHES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates firstly to improvements in sashes and frames
of windows and other openings, and consists in forming each sash or
frame for the reception or fitting of additional pieces or hanging stiles
at the side edges, which pieces have the lines attached, to enable the

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sash to slide up and down between the beads in the usual manner.
side pieces or the frames have dovetailed or tapered sockets or projections
upon them to engage and hold the pieces in close contact with the
frame when in proper position, so that they move as one body when the
sockets and projections are secured.
The second part of my Invention relates to the construction and
employment of threaded sockets upon the sash or upon the additional
pieces before referred to, into which right and left handed screw pins are
caused to take to enable the sash to be disengaged from the side stiles
and to be turned or pulled over to bring the back portion to the front
when cleaning, painting, or repairs have to be done, the reverse action
serving to put the picces into close contact again to rise and fall as an
ordinary sash.
The dovetailed or tapered sockets and projections can be used in
conjunction with the threaded sockets and pins, or in lieu thereof other
screw pins, clips, or claws can be employed, a partial rotation of which
to the right or to the left fastens or releases the sash to or from the side
pieces to enable it to be turned over without removing the beads or
strips.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, a
filed by the said Nathan Ager in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHAN
AGER, of No. 28, Grosvenor Road, Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex.
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Nathan Ager, Her special licence that I, ‹
the said Nathan Ager, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Nathan Ager, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,

page_text: should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
Ünited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an 'Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SASHES AND FRAMES
AND IN APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE CLEANING, PAINTING, AND REPAIRS OF
WINDOWS AND SASHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Nathan Ager, my executors or administrators by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I,. the said Nathan Ager, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
This Invention consists, firstly, of improvements in sashes and frames of
windows and other openings whereby the sashes can be turned the out-
side to the inside of a room and vice versa, in appliances for securing the
sashes in position to prevent the entrance of rain water or wind, also to
prevent rattling. The second part consists of a screw appliance at each
side of the sash, and the employment of separate hanging stiles upon
which the sashes are supported and fixed by claws dovetailed or
otherwise, or by pins or bolts in any convenient manner.
My Invention will be clearly understood by the following description
if read in connection with the annexed Sheet of Drawings.
Figure 1 represents in perspective a portion of a hanging stile a down
the outer portion or face of which a groove is cut for the cord b to lic in
when the stile is fitted in position between the front or the back beads
and the parting bead, as the case may be, the groove terminating above
the central portion in a hole which is drilled or bored through to the
inner face for the reception of the cord knot, where it finds an abutment
against a flange or shoulder in the hole for the purpose; this will be
seen more particularly in the sectional view Figure 2. By this means
the cord can be shortened to any extent by an attendant without the
necessity of removing the beadings or any nails, fresh cords can also be
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page_text: fitted with less labour than is possible by the present method. The
sash is fitted at the sides at about mid distance from the top to bottom
with pivots d, d, as in Figure 3, which pivots project and are screw
threaded to take into threaded socket e, e, upon or in the stiles a, a.
Both sides of the frame or sash are similarly fitted but with right and
left handed screw threads, and when it is in position between two stiles
it is balanced so that it can be pulled over from the top to bring the
outside of the glass to the inside to be cleaned, or for other purposes, the
hanging stiles remaining within the side beads as I have shown in
Figure 4, where one sash is partly turned upon its pivots and the other
sash is in place to be lifted in the usual manner. The lower portions of
the two sides of the sashes or the upper portions only, or both the lower
and the upper portions are provided with appliances for binding the
sash and the stiles closely in contact, when the sash is brought into a
vertical position, but which are released when moved in the reverse
direction to give clearance for the sash to move over freely. Each sash
is free to be swung upon its pivots as in Figure 5, for ventilating or for
other purposes. The screw pivots and the threaded sockets are also
so arranged in relation to each other that the stiles become drawn into
close contact and present an even and flush meeting face to the sash
this prevents the entry of wind and rain and obviates rattling.
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In Figure 6 I have shown screw bolts passed through the sashes into
the stiles for drawing the top and bottom ends into contact, but other
means of fastening can be employed, such as clip hooks and fixed eyes,
or spring bolts as in Figures 7 and 8 can be fitted into recesses in the
sash, and these can be withdrawn by projecting knobs or hand holds by
which the sash can be raised and lowered on ordinary occasions.
Figure 9 is a sectional plan through the line x, x, of Figure 10, and
Figure 11 is a corner piece in section with a portion of the box in which
the sash weight travels up and down.
The pivots may be upon the stiles, and. the sockets upon the sashes, if
desired.
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The manner of carrying my Invention into effect being thus explained,
I declare that I claim,―
Firstly. Fitting separate stiles or additional pieces which slide up and
the hands of window Sunman
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page_text: and holes for the knots of the cords, as described and shown in Figures 1
and 2 of the Drawings annexed.
Secondly. Fitting sash frames and stiles with right and left hand
threaded pivots at the sides or edges, the threaded portions forming the
means of bringing the sash and the side stiles into contact, as described
and shown in Figures 2 and 3.
Thirdly. I claim the combination of the two portions of my Inven-
tion in or to the same window, and also the means of binding the sash
and the side stiles together, as described and shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathan Ager, have hereunto set⚫
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of June One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
JNO. GORDON PICKING,
93, Tachbrook St.,
Pimlico;
S. W.
NATHAN AGER. (L.S.)