Improved Means for Preventing the Rattling of Window Sashes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1895
1000
17th Ant 4806
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Preventing the Rattling of Window Sashes.
JOHN KINGSMILL 36 Bournemouth Road, Folkestone, Builders Foreman do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An oblique piece of brass or any other suitable material fixed to the window
sashes or beads in such a manner as to allow the sashes to work easily and yet
prevent rattling.
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JOHN KINGSMILL.
Improved Means for Preventing the Rattling of Window Sashes.
I, JOHN KINGSMILL, of 36, Bournemouth Road, Folkestone, Kent, Builder, 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:-
This invention relates to improved means for preventing the rattling of window
sashes, and has for its object to provide a device that will effectually prevent the
rattling of the sashes and obviate draughts, the device at the same time being.
simple in its construction and operation and not liable to get out of order.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the main portion of the device.
Fig. 2 a side view of a screw shanked stud forming part of the invention.
Fig. 3 a side elevation of a portion of a window sash and beading, shewing the
device in actual use, and
Fig. 4 a front elevation of a window with my invention applied thereto.
Referring to the drawings, a is an oblique, bevelled, or wedge-shaped metal or
other plate having a flange a provided with openings a² to receive screws a³ or the
like for the purpose of affixing such plate to the window sash c.
In lieu of fashioning this portion of the invention in the manner shewn on the
drawings and described above, I may cast or otherwise form it in the shape of a
solid wedge having counter-sunk screw-holes.
This will obviate the necessity of turning out the device in pairs for the right
and left-hand sides of the window-sash.
In operation the oblique plate or wedge a is fastened to each side of the sash-
stile c, (Figs. 4 and 5) the apex of the wedge being lowermost in the case of the
lower sash, and vice-versá in the case of the upper sash. The screw-shanked studs b
(which may have their heads milled and separable from the shanks if desirable)
are screwed into the beading d of the window-frame in such a position as to come
into contact with the respective oblique plates or wedges a as the sashes are raised
or lowered, the result being that the said sashes, when up or down, (as the case
may be) are forced tightly against the beads in such a way as to entirely prevent
rattling and obviate draughts.

page_text: 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 :
1. The improved means for preventing the rattling of window sashes, substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
2. In means for preventing window sashes rattling, the employment of an oblique
flanged plate, or a wedge, adapted to be fixed upon a window-sash, in combination
with a screw-shanked stud having a milled or plain head, said stud being fixed to
the window-frame bead, all constructed and operating substantially as, and for the
purpose, set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1896.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.