Securing of Cab, Railway Carriage, Coach, Omnibus, and other like Windows and Shutters.
Year: 1886

page_text: Securing of Cab, Railway Carriage, Coach, Omnibus, and other
like Windows and Shutters.
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I HENRY JAMES HAMPSON of South Parade in the City of Manchester in the
County of Lancaster Builder and Contractor, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT LIFTING
AND SECURING OF CAB, RAILWAY CARRIAGE, COACH, OMNIBUS AND OTHER LIKE
WINDOWS AND SHUTTERS to be as follows:-
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A groove of suitable width and of a depth varying as required for the apparatus
fixed therein, is cut along the top or head of the lifting sash or sheet by preference
(or the head of the lifting sash or sheet is cut on one side to admit, the apparatus or
the apparatus is fixed on the inside of the lifting sheet). The apparatus consists of
a right and left shaped metal bar or lever, worked by a centre connecting pin and
pivotted on centres at such distances from the centre connecting pin as required
and extending along the head of the sash in such a way that the weight of the sash
wedges the bars or levers across the opening into the slides prepared for the sash,
thus preventing the sash moving in a downward direction. The bars or levers are
kept in an extended position by means of a spring (in the handle or otherwise)
which causes the sash to stay in any position to which it is lifted or lowered. The
sash is liberated for raising or lowering by means of the handle on the inside of the
sash attached to the centre connecting pin, which handle, on being raised, owing to
the weight of the sash acting in a contrary direction, lifts up the centre connecting
pin and consequently the ends of the bars or levers nearest to the centre connecting
pin, thus bringing down the ends of the bars or levers furthest from the centre
connecting pin, thereby reducing the horizontal length (being the width between
the slide grooves) of the bars or levers, and allows the sash to be moved to the
required position. The bars or levers and other parts of the apparatus are metal,
by preference steel, and are either fixed on a stirrup shaped plate or between plates
of metal with centres and securing screw holes as required for fixing the same, or
are fixed on to a plate, or between plates sufficiently large only to accommodate the
centres requisite, such plate or plates being attached to the wood head of the sash
frame, and the levers working in the groove first mentioned.
1000

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for the more Convenient Lifting and
Securing of Cab, Railway Carriage, Coach, Omnibus, and other
like Windows and Shutters.
I HENRY JAMES HAMPSON of South Parade in the City of Manchester in the
County of Lancaster Builder and Contractor do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT LIFTING
AND SECURING OF CAB, RAILWAY CARRIAGE, COACH, OMNIBUS AND OTHER LIKE
WINDOWS AND SHUTTERS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained' in and by the following statement:-
The head of the lifting window, sash, or sheet is cut on one side to admit the
apparatus, by preference, or a groove of suitable width and shape and of a depth
varying as required for the proper fitting of the apparatus fixed therein, is cut
along the top, or head, of the lifting window, sash, or sheet, or the apparatus is fixed
on the inside of the head of the lifting window, sash, or sheet, either covered or
exposed, in part, or whole, to view, at discretion, by preference; or the apparatus is
fixed in a like manner to the foregoing description in the bottom portion or rail of
the lifting window sash or sheet.
The apparatus consists of right and left shaped metal bars or levers, connected in
centre, and working each separately on its own centre, operated upon by a metal
lever or eccentric, at or near the centre of the sash, or sheet head, to which lover or
_eccentric a handle is secured for convenience, the bars or levers referred to being
kept in the position required by a spring, the whole secured to a metal plate by
screws and other means, which is in turn secured to the head of the lifting window,
sash, or sheet, as set forth in the accompanying drawings, figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5,
and which apparatus is further described hereunder..
The letters A. A. on the drawings represent metal bars or levers, shaped in such
a way as to leave as much as possible of the head of the sash or sheet intact when
the apparatus is fixed therein, and to allow the apparatus to be more easily worked.
These bars or levers are pivotted on centres (marked B. B. on drawings) at such
distances from the centre of the sash or sheet head as is convenient to the proper,
efficient, and easy working of the apparatus, and are connected at the portions over
lapping or passing one another (crank shaped on plan as shown on Figure 2 of the
drawings) by a burred pin, marked C on the drawings, in a double countersunk
slot, long enough in each bar or lever to allow the same to work freely on their
respective centres before referred to and marked B on the drawings, by preference,
or the ends of the bars or levers can be segment shaped, or cog-toothed, or fitted
in connection, or to work separately, in any other way or shape, or by any other
method.
The letter D represents a metal lever or eccentric working on a pivot or centre,
marked E on the drawings, carried or working through the metal plate to which
the whole apparatus is fixed or secured as described herein and marked G. G. on the
drawings, and a shaped strap at back of same secured to it, leaving space for the

page_text: said lever or eccentric to work between, by preference, or the centre of the said
lever or eccentric may be worked on plates secured on to or let into the side or sides
of the head of the sash or sheet, either combined with, or distinct from, the metal
plate before referred to and marked G. G. on the drawings; which said lever or
eccentric, referred to, and marked D on the drawings, is secured by a lengthened
centre pin (marked E on the drawings) or otherwise, to a handle marked F. F. on
the drawings, which handle is made of such material as required, and of such shape,
size, movement, appearance, and position, as will best suit the convenience of the
general working of the apparatus in various positions in actual use; this handle
being turned in a given direction, by preference (or used in connection with a
double eccentric or lever, but differing in shape from the one shown on the drawing
and marked D inasmuch as it becomes double sided, or so shaped that on being
moved in either direction it will operate and raise the central portion of the levers
or bars A. A. and consequently lower the outward ends of the same as hereinafter
described) or in either, or any direction, lifts one side of the shaped lever or
eccentric D, which in turn raises the portions of the two bars or levers inarked A. A.
on the drawings, between the pivots B. B., which action causes the further ends of
the two bars or levers, i.e. the ends of portions of each bar or lever lying between
the pivots B. B. and the outward ends of the sash or sheet head, to move in a
downward direction thereby describing an arc from the centres B. B., which
movement reduces the previous or natural extended horizontal length of the bars
or levers, and causes the end of the sash or sheet to have a surface without any
projection, thereby allowing the said sash or sheet to move up or down with
smoothness and ease, so long as the handle is kept in the position immediately
herein before described, but the bandle marked on the drawing and referred to as F
being liberated, the same, as also the lever or eccentric D, are put back to their first
or natural position, or such position as the width of the grooves in which the sheet
or sash slides will allow, as hereafter described, by the central portion or ends of the
bars or levers A. A. lying between the pivots B. B. pressing in a downward direction,
which said pressure is caused or created by means of a spring of flat shaped steel,
marked H. H. on the drawings, fastened or secured to the wooden head of the sash
or sheet, by small rivets or pins, or secured to the plate referred to as G. G. by
means of lugs or split screws, or by other means, by preference; or by means of a
metal spiral lever, indiarubber or other spring, as may be deemed desirable or
convenient, either in the central or any other portions of either one or both of the
bars or levers marked A. A. and working either in a downward or upward direction
with either push or pull movement or action.
The whole of the apparatus hereinbefore described is secured, fixed, or attached to
the plate shown on drawings and marked G. G. in such ways and manners as have
been described, which plate is metal and of a shape shown on the drawings by
preference, but. a lesser or larger plate or plates of different shape and style, may
be used in connection with the different arrangement of the apparatus as at first
described (which arrangement allows the apparatus to be placed either in a groove
shaped slot or to be fixed on the face or front or inner portion of the head of the
sash or sheet before referred to), and is secured to the said sash or sheet'in position
or positions referred to and described by means of screws rivets, bolts, lugs, or in
any other way as may be convenient and is either exposed to view or hidden as
allowed for in the descriptions of position of the apparatus hereinbefore described.
In the fixing of the apparatus in the bottom rail or sill of the sash sheet or
window as set forth in the introductory description first written, the arrangement
of the apparatus is as follows:-The handle F is dispensed with, the lever or
eccentric D working, as also all other portions of the apparatus, as previously
described. The portion of the lever or eccentric D furthest from its own centre or
pivot is prepared to receive a strap, cord, or other attachment. A strap or cord is
then attached to this preparation working on a swivel, or pivot, or securely fixed, as
may be convenient, by means of rivets, screws, or other method, the said strap being
carried over the centre rail of the door, or other such construction in connection

page_text: with which the apparatus is used, and left hanging loose after the fashion of window
straps on railway or other carriage windows at present in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. An arrangement of bars or levers fixed and worked as described automatically
securing and allowing to be moved by means of a moveable handle or by a strap
arrangement the windows sashes or sheets to which the same are attached
substantially in the manner described.
2. The attachment of a moveable handle to levers fixed in the manner stated
which act across the head of the sash sheet or window to which they are attached
and worked substantially in the manner described.
Dated this Twenty first day of October 1886