Method of Suspending Sashes, and in Appliances connected therewith, to Facilitate the Reversal or Removal for Cleaning or other Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Sept., 1991-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
Improved
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Method of Suspending Sashes, and in Appliances
connected therewith, to Facilitate the Reversal or Removal
for Cleaning or other Purposes.
I, WILLIAM REASON HOUGH of No. 135 Great Suffolk Street Southwark,
Surrey, Builder and Contractor do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates
(1) To improvements in sashes & frames. For this purpose I make an outer
frame to be built in brickwork in the usual way. I then make an ordinary sash
frame with pocket for cast weight with two pullies, one pullie larger than the
other to allow the cords to clear inserted in same with stud and channel to keep
weight in position.
(2) I propose suspending by a cat gut line, the line being rove over 4 pullies above
the weight on left hand side of sash frame and two pullies inserted in right hand
side of sash frame in grooves of the sash frames as guides. I then fasten the ends of
cords to the side of each sash by so doing I am enabled to use one weight only for
the sashes.
The sash frame then becomes more solid and substantial than that of box
frame now in general use.
I purpose to have the sashes sliding & working in an inner frame hung to an
outer frame to facilitate the opening of the inner frame in the room, giving the
following advantages namely saving risk of life in cleaning the windows from the
outside also in replacing broken lines and the painting & glazing of the sashes.
Dated this 13th day of August 1891.
W. R. HOUGH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Suspending Sashes, and in Appliances
connected therewith, to Facilitate the Reversal or Removal
for Cleaning or other Purposes.
I, WILLIAM REASON HOUGH, of No. 135, Great Suffolk Street, Southwark, in
the County of Surrey, Builder and Contractor, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in the method of suspending or hanging
sliding window sashes.
In carrying out my invention, instead of employing for each sash two balance
weights as hitherto has generally been the practice, I employ one only, the sash
cords attached to one sash passing over pulleys at the top of the window frame and
Over pulleys with which I provide my balance weight and returning over other
pulleys in the top of the window frame and passing down to the other sash to
which they are secured.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a window having sliding sashes balanced by a single
weight according to my invention, the said window being of the type in which
the sashes are mounted in a hinged frame or casement to facilitate cleaning and
repairing:
Figure 2 is a horizontal section on the line a x of Figure 1:

page_text: Figure 3 is an elevation partly in section on the line y y of Figure 2:
Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line == of Figure 3:
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively a detached end view and a side view of my
improved balance weight.
Similar reference letters in all the figures indicate similar or corresponding
parts.
a, bare sliding sashes of ordinary construction. c is the hinged frame or
casement in which the sashes slide, and d is the window frame to which the said
casement is hinged.
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e is my balance weight which serves to balance the sashes a, b through the
medium of the cords f, which are attached at one end to one sash and at the other
end to the other sash. The intermediate portions of the said cords pass over
pulleys h, h arranged in recesses i, i in the top of the frame c and around pulleys j, j'
in the balance weight e, the lower of such pulleys j' being larger than the upper
pulley to prevent the cord which passes around it from coming into contact with
the cord passing around the said pulley j, as clearly shewn in Figure 4.
k is a recess formed partly in each of the frames c and d and serving to allow of
the movement of the weight e.
I advantageously provide for increasing the weight of my balance weight by
securing plates or blocks thereto by means of a bolt m, as shewn in Figures 5 and 6.
My method of suspending sashes, whereby the balance weight is located close to
the hinges of the casement, is especially adapted for use with the form of window
to which I have shewn it applied, that is to say, to a window the frame of which is
hinged so that it and with it the sashes can be moved inwards to allow of cleaning
and repairing without danger. I wish, however, it to be understood that my method
of suspending sliding sashes is equally applicable to ordinary windows having fixed
frames.
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 method herein described of suspending sliding sashes by the employment
of a single balance weight having pulleys over which and over pulleys on the
window frame pass cords attached to the sashes, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved balance weight for sliding sashes hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved balanced sliding window sashes and
frames herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 25th day of September 1891.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.