Improvements in Skylights or Windows, and Method for Producing the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skylights
or Windows, and Method for
Producing the same.
I, HERMANN FLESCHE, of the Firm of Actien Gesellschaft für Verzinkerei &
Eisenconstruction, late Jacob Hilgers, of Rheinbrohl, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, 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:-
Skylights or dormer windows consisting of window frames and light frames have
hitherto been constructed of several parts combined in the one or the other manner,
and in most cases the light frame was made of T iron.
The window forming the object of the present application together with the light
frame is made of one single piece of plate and is shown in the annexed drawing,
in which Fig. 6 is a plan or front view. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section on
line xx of Fig. 6 and Fig. 8 is a cross section on line y y of Fig. 6. Figs. 1 to 5
illustrate different stages of the manner in which the window is produced.
A couvenient plate a of iron or other suitable material (Fig. 1) is by means of a
suitable die and matrix formed into the light frame b Fig. 2, which may be of any
convenient form suitable for tiled, undulated, sheet iron, slate, or other roofs of
any form. The thus prepared plate is then slid under a second press provided
with correspondingly formed matrix and the side frame c is produced, so that the
plate receives the form shown in Fig. 3 and a window is produced out of one single
piece having a light frame, side frame, and bottom plate.
When a window is to be made with movable light frame arranged for opening
and closing, the side wall is cut through at about 2 to 3 cm. from the upper edge
of the light frame b, whereby the light frame and the window frame are separated
from one another.
In order to be able to let the light frame b fall properly over the up border c of
the window frame, the border c is diminished on a bordering machine so as to form
the upper border c'; in this manner the light frame b falls in such a manner with
its edges over the window frame c respectively c¹, that it impossible for the rain
to enter and this window closes more tightly than all windows of the like nature
hitherto used.
The openings 6' for inserting the glass panes into the light frame are pressed or
cut out only after the whole is ready.
At the under end of the light that is the glass frame there are provided suitable
hollows through which the rain water is guided off and prevented from remaining
on the panes.
The centre of the light frame is strengthened on the under side of the plate
bridge with flat irons 8 and the latter is connected with the light frame by means
of rivets or other suitable means. This flat rail 8 has at the under end an eye to
which there is attached the rod 81 serving for fixing the window when opening the
same. The hinge joints for connecting the light frame b with the window frame c
are preferably punched out of two plates. The one d with the arms d' is fixed on
the light frame by means of rivets passing through the plate and the flat iron rail s
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page_text: whilst the other e is rivetted on the window frame which at this part may be further
strengthened. For connecting the hinge joints a bolt is arranged and is
provided with a head and fly nut, the pin i arranged on the inner side at the under
end of the window frame serves for receiving the adjusting rods which lies with
its openings over the pin i.
The bottom plate a may also be provided with the two bent side borders a¹ and
at the top the swelling a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. An improved skylight or window consisting of a window frame and light
frame of any form in plan view, the same being produced from one single piece.
2. A process for producing the skylight or window as in Claim 1 in which the light
frame is first produced and then the side frame, and in which for windows with
movable light frame the side wall is then cut through all round and the upper edge
of the border of the side frame is diminished, so that the light frame reaches over
the edges of the side frame and in which the openings are afterwards punched out
for receiving the glass or other panes.
3. For strengthening the light frame in skylights or windows as in Claim 1 the
arrangement of a flat rail or rails on the light frame, the same being formed at its
lower end as an eye for receiving the supporting rod, and having its upper end in
connection with the hinged joint.
Dated this 25th day of May 1990.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.