Improved Pole for Snibbing and Unsnibbing and Lowering and Closing Windows.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Pole for Snibbing and Unsnibbing and Lowering and
Closing Windows.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS of 8 Melville Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain Corresponding Clerk, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved pole for snibbing and unsnibbing and
lowering and closing windows. To the end of the ordinary window pole I attach.
ashaped piece of bent or forged iron. The upper or flat portion of the bent.
iron is fixed directly upon the end of the pole and the end of the said flat portion
is hooked, the arrangement being such that the snib on the top of the sash can be.
grasped by the hook and the window thus snibbed. The back of the hook is formed
with an indentation so that the snib can be pulled back with the back of the hook.
to unsnib the window.
The other leg of the bent iron which runs parallel with the pole is for the
purpose of lowering the top sash; the said leg of the bent iron being between the
two sashes when the upper sash is being pulled down. To push up the upper sash,.
the pole can be used in the ordinary way.
Dated this 31st day of March 1906
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
Improved Pole for Snibbing and Unsnibbing and Lowering and
Closing Windows.
I, WILLIAM THOMAS, of 8 Melville Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Corresponding Clerk, 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 an improved pole for snibbing and unsnibbing and
lowering and closing windows.
As shewn in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, I attach to the ordinary
window pole A a shaped piece of bent or forged iron B, the upper or flat.
portion 6 of which is provided with a socket C fixed to the end of the pole by
screws or similar means.
The said portion 6 is hooked or provided with a recess D so that the snib on
the top of the sash can be grasped thereby and the window thus be snibbed. The
back of the book is formed with an indentation d so that the snib can be pushed
back with the back of the hook to unsnib the window.
The other leg b' of the bent iron which runs parallel with the pole is for the:
[D01

page_text: purpose of lowering the top sash and is strengthened by an arched or semi-circular
formation of the metal between the socket and the leg."
The said leg is between the two sashes, as shewn in Figure 2, when the upper
sash is being pulled down. To push up the upper sash, the pole can be used in the
ordinary way.
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 pole or appliance for snibbing and unsnibbing; and lowering and closing
windows, substantially as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 31st day of December 1900
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.