Improvements in or connected with Sand Bags or Draught Excluders.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Sand Bags or Draught
Excluders.
We, WALTER THOMAS HALL and CHARLES JOHN AXTEN, both of 66, Hatton
Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers and Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in or connected with sand bags or
draught excluders.
Sand bags or draught excluders as at present made consist of long narrow
bags of fabric filled with sand or the like, and besides being unportable are
unsightly inasmuch as they speedily lose their shape.
Now the object of the present invention is to construct a sand bag or draught
excluder in such manner that the defects above pointed out will be obviated
and an article produced which will be of a more useful character and have a
better appearance than heretofore.
In carrying the invention into effect a bag of the maximum length required
for the finished article is formed of suitable material and this bag is divided
into two or more lengths or sections united by flat webs preferably hollow.
Into each of the sections or lengths thus formed is inserted a stiffener or body
consisting of a half tube of semi-circular or other suitable section formed of
cardboard or other suitable material and the several lengths or sections are filled
with sand or the like and closed in the usual manner.
The cardboard or like stiffener according to its shape will give to the device a
semi-circular or other section and when the device is placed in position over the
opening between the meeting rails of two sashes in the usual way but with its
flat side downward the weight of the sand will cause the flat side of the bag
to sag somewhat and thus close the crevice and stop the draught the webs or
connecting pieces permitting a slight adjustment in the length of the device
and when they are central serving to bridge over or cover the window fasteners.
The connecting web may if desired be partly filled with sand or the like so as
to cause the same to sag and assist to close the opening from which the draught
is issuing.
When the device is not in use the several sections or lengths may be folded
together and will thus occupy comparatively little space for storage or transport.
The device may if desired be made in unconnected sections of various lengths
so that the total length required may be easily made up.
Instead of encasing the cardboard or other body or stiffener in a bag the open
flat side may be closed by a strip of suitable fabric fastened to the body by
means of lacing, cementing, rivetting or otherwise, and the ends may be closed
in any suitable manner.
By the means hereinbefore described a sand bag or draught excluder will be

page_text: rendered more efficient, of better appearance and more convenient than hereto-
fore.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1898.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
Rooms 221-225, Birkbeck Bank Chambers,
Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.
· Improvements in or connected with Sand Bags or Draught
Excluders.
We, WALTER THOMAS HALL and CHARLES JOHN AXTEN, both of 66, Hatton
Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers and Merchants, 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:
The invention relates to improvements in or connected with sand bags or
draught excluders.
Sand bags or draught excluders as at present made consist of long narrow
bags of fabric filled with sand or the like and besides being unportable are
unsightly inasmuch as they speedily lose their shape.
Now the object of the present invention is to construct a sand bag or draught
excluder in such manner that the defects above pointed out will be obviated
and an article produced which will be of a more useful character and have a
better appearance than heretofore.
In carrying the invention into effect a bag of the maximum length required
for the finished article is formed of suitable material and this bag is divided
into two or more lengths or sections united by flat webs preferably hollow.
Into each of the sections or lengths thus formed is inserted a stiffener or body
consisting of a half tube of semi-circular or other suitable section formed of
cardboard or other suitable material and the several lengths or sections are filled
with sand or the like and closed in the usual manner.
The cardboard or like stiffener according to its shape will give to the device a
semi-circular or other section and when the device is placed in position over the
opening between the meeting rails of two sashes in the usual way but with its
flat side downward the weight of the sand will cause the flat side of the bag
to sag somewhat and thus close the crevice and stop the draught the webs or
connecting pieces permitting a slight adjustment in the length of the device
and when they are central serving to bridge over or cover the window fasteners.
The connecting web may if desired be partly filled with sand or the like so as
to cause the same to sag and assist to close the opening from which the draught
is issuing.
When the device is not in use the several sections or lengths may be folded
together and will thus occupy comparatively little space for storage or transport.
The device may if desired be made in unconnected sections of various lengths
so that the total length required may be easily made up.
Instead of encasing the cardboard or other body or stiffener in a bag the open
flat side may be closed by a strip of suitable fabric fastened to the body by
means of lacing, cementing, rivetting or otherwise and the ends may be closed
in any suitable manner.
And in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and

page_text: more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an inside view of part of a window having applied thereto a sand
bag or draught excluder constructed according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is a transverse section of parts taken on the line 1-1 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a plan of the sand bag or draught excluder separately.
Figure 4 is a side elevation thereof.
Figure 5 is a transverse section thereof.
Figure 6 is a side elevation showing the device folded up in readiness for
storage or transport.
Figure 7 is a side elevation of part of a sand bag or draught excluder repre-
senting a modification in the construction of the device and
Figure 8 is a transverse section thereof.
In the several figures of the drawings in which like parts are indicated by
similar letters of reference Figures 3, 4, and 6 are drawn to an increased scale
with respect to Figure 1, and Figures 2, 5, 7, and 8 are drawn to a further
increased scale.
Referring to Figures 1 to 6 a represents a sand bag or draught excluder
constructed according to the present invention and c represents part of a window.
The outer covering a of the device consists of a bag of cloth or other suitable
material of the maximum length required for the finished article and this cloth
bag a is divided into two lengths or sections a a united by a flat web a pre-
ferably hollow, or the bag might be divided into a larger number of lengths or
sections similarly united by webs a¹.
Into each of the sections or lengths a thus formed is inserted a stiffener or
body as shown more particularly at Figure 5 and which consists of a half tube
of semi-circular or other suitable section formed of cardboard or other suitable
material having sufficient rigidity and the several lengths or sections of the bage
are filled with sand or the like and at the ends closed by sewing up the same in
the usual manner.
The cardboard or like stiffener will give to the device a semi-circular section
as shown in Figure 5 or by varying the shape of said stiffener any other section
within certain limits may be given to the device as will be readily understood.
In applying the device to a window it is as shown at Figures 1 and 2 placed in
position over the opening between the meeting rails c of the two sashes c of the
window in the usual way but with its flat side downward when the weight of the
sand will cause the flat or underside of the sections of the bag a to sag somewhat as
shown at * in Figure 2 and thus close the crevice and stop the draught.
The web or connecting piece or webs or connecting pieces as the case may
be permits a slight adjustment in the length of the device and when the device
is provided with a central web a the latter serves to bridge over or cover the
window fastener d as shown at Figure 1.
The connecting web a may if desired be partly filled with sand or the like
so as to cause the same to sag and assist to close the opening from which the
draught is issuing.
When the device is not in use the sections or lengths may be readily folded
together as shown at Figure 6 so that it will occupy comparatively little space
for storage or transport.
The device may if desired be made in sections a of various lengths unconnected
by webs so that the total length required for a window of a given size may
be easily made up.
In the example given at Figures 7 and 8 instead of encasing the cardboard
or other body or stiffener b in a complete bag the open or flat side of said body
is closed or covered by a strip of cloth or other suitable fabric at its edges
fastened to the body b by means of cement and similarly closed at the ends

page_text: (not shown) or it might be fastened to the body or stiffener & by lacing rivetting
or otherwise and the ends closed in any suitable manner.
By the means hereinbefore described a sand bag or draught excluder is obtained
which is more efficient of better appearance and more convenient than heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A sand bag or draught excluder comprising a rigid upper part and a
flexible under part substantially as herein shown and described and for the
purpose stated.
2. A sand bag or draught excluder comprising a rigid shell like body open
on its under side a covering of flexible material over said under side and a
filling of sand or the like substantially as herein shown and described and for the
purpose stated.
3. A sand bag or draught excluder comprising a rigid shell like body open on
its under side a bag of flexible material enveloping said body and a filling of sand
or the like substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated.
4. A. sand bag or draught excluder comprising two or more lengths or sections
each composed of a rigid shell like body open on its under side, a covering of
flexible material over said under side a flexible web connecting each length
or section and a filling of sand or the like substantially as herein shown and
described and for the purpose stated.
5. A sand bag or draught excluder constructed and operating substantially
as herein shown and described.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1890
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
Rooms 221-225, Birkbeck Bank Chambers,
Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.