Improvements in or pertaining to Sliding Sashes
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891*
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Sliding Sashes
I JOHN VAUGHAN of High Street Hartley Wintney in the County of Hants
Painter and Decorator do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be" as
follows:
The object of my invention is so to construct and fit and with such devices
and appliances sliding sashes of all descriptions whether for the windows of houses
or of railway or other carriages or for other purposes that no counterweights are
required and that the sashes are capable of being surely retained in any desired
position while they can easily and quickly be moved into another position.
To carry out this object I form the sliding sash in any usual or convenient
manner and vertically in the outer face of each of the side stiles of the sash I
plough or otherwise create a groove wherein can travel as the sash is moved up
and down a stud fixed in the proper position in or on the meeting face of the side
stile of the frame in which the sash is mounted which frame may likewise be made
in any usual or convenient manner. To clasp this stud and thus support the sash
in the desired position without any counterweights I fit in the groove two small
strips or bars preferably of metal between which the stud travels as aforesaid and
behind these strips or bars I arrange a series of metallic or other springs which
press the same together to clasp the stud.
When this invention is applied to railway or other carriage sashes or the like it
is very convenient to fix the parting bead or similar appliance to the side stile of
the frame only near the upper end thereof and there to pivot it governing the
upper end of this bead above the pivot by one or more springs whereby when the
sash is drawn right out of its sheath or receptacle to close the window and is
disengaged from the stud or studs the lower edge thereof can be pushed out as
usual to engage and rest on the usual ledge which pushing out causes the bead to
move on its pivot against the spring and thus when the sash is again lifted to
disengage the lower edge thereof from the ledge the spring bead forces the sash
back again into the proper position in readiness again to enter its sheath or
receptacle and as it slides down thereinto to clasp the stud or studs as aforesaid in
the groove or grooves in the side stile or stiles of the sash.
Dated this 12th day of January 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Sliding Sashes.
I JOHN VAUGHAN of High Street Hartley Wintney in the County of Hants
Painter and Decorator 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 object of this my invention is so to construct and fit and with such
appliances and devices sliding sashes of all descriptions whether the same be
provided for the windows of houses or other buildings or of railway or other
carriages or for other purposes that no counterweights are required and that these
sashes are capable of being surely retained in any desired positions while they can
easily and quickly be moved into other positions.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have
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page_text: shewn my invention as applied to and fitted in and with the sliding sash of a
railway carriage window and
Figure 1 is an elevation of the inner face of the side stile of the frame of this
window partly in section.
Figure 2 is an elevation on an enlarged scale of the side face or edge of the
sliding sash of this window and
Figure 3 is an elevation on a further enlarged scale of part of the aforesaid
side face or edge.
The frame of the window may be made in any usual and convenient or other
manner and on the inner face of the side stile A thereof in the proper position
about the level of the top of the usual sheath or receptacle for the sash formed in
the lower part of this frame is fitted a stud B preferably formed as is shewn in
the drawing as a long and flat stud vertically and which also projects horizontally
as far as may be desired.
The sliding sash of the window may likewise be made in any usual and con-
venient or other manner and vertically in the outer face of the side stile D thereof
is ploughed or otherwise created a groove E wherein the stud B can travel as the
sash is moved upwards or downwards to close or open the window and this
groove E is preferably so created in each of the side stiles D of the sliding sash
and therefore the stud B is also preferably so fitted on each of the meeting faces
of the side stiles A of the frame. It is perhaps at all times and in all cases most
desirable and convenient to create the groove E the whole length of each of the
side stiles D of the sash or that is to say these grooves E have no closed ends so
that the sash can easily and quickly be disengaged from the studs B when desired
and it is obviously necessary so to create the lower ends of the grooves in the
ordinary sliding sashes of railway and other carriage windows in order to secure
the same in the entirely closed position in the usual manner but in other cases I
may when I may deem it expedient so to do close the ends of these grooves.
To clasp the stud B in the groove E and thus support the sliding sash in the
desired position without any counterweights two small strips or bars F and F¹ are
fitted in the groove E along the whole length of the same in such wise and so
arranged as to face each other and at the same time as to allow the stud B to
enter and travel between them as hereinbefore described and behind the strips or
bars F and F are arranged a number of metallic or other springs which can very
conveniently be the ordinary bowed metallic springs H shewn in the drawing which
springs H force the strips or bars F and F¹ together and cause the same tightly to
clasp the stud B by which arrangement the sash is supported in position as is
desired and it is obvious that the employment of a little force will quickly move
the sash into another position as also is desired. To keep the strips or bars F
and F and the springs H safely in the groove E it is most convenient to secure
over the same a slotted plate K which is shewn broken off or partly removed
in Figure 2 for obvious purposes of exposure and the slot in this plate K may
have closed ends or open ends like as the groove Ewhereover it is secured has closed
ends or open ends or otherwise as I may deem it to be necessary or expedient.
When this my invention hereinbefore described is applied to and fitted in and with
the sliding sashes of railway and other carriage windows or the like for the which
indeed it is chiefly intended and to the which it is chiefly applicable it is very
convenient to attach the parting bead L or other similar and usual appliance to the
side stile A of the frame only near the upper end thereof and there to pivot it as
shewn at M governing this bead or appliance L it may be above the pivot Mor
elsewhere in any usual and convenient or other manner by one or more springs by
which arrangement when the sash is drawn right out of its sheath or receptacle
in the lower part of the frame to entirely close the window and is thus disengaged
from the studs the lower edge thereof can be pushed outwards as is usual to
engage and rest on the ordinary ledge N which pushing outwards of the lower edge
causes the bead or appliance L to move on its pivot M against the spring or
springs and therefore when the sash is again lifted to disengage the lower edge

page_text: thereof from the ledge N the spring bead or appliance L forces the sash back
again into the proper position in readiness again to enter its sheath or receptacle and
as it slides down thereinto the studs B are again clasped between the strips or
bars F and F in the grooves E in the side stiles D of the sash as is desired.
I have thus described and I have shewn in the accompanying drawing this my
invention as applied to and fitted in and with the sliding sash of a railway carriage
window and I do not consider that any further or other description or explanation is
or can be needed for it is sufficiently obvious that in other sliding sashes this
invention can be similarly arranged any plainly necessary modifications being made
therein as for example in some windows it may not ever be required to disengage
the sliding sashes from the studs in which case the grooves in the side stiles thereof
or the slots in the plates that are secured over these grooves can be created with
closed ends as is hereinbefore described and no spring beads or other appliances
will be needed.
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
The improvements in or pertaining to sliding sashes substantially as herein before
described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 30th day of September 1891.