Improvements in Carriage and House Windows whereby all Rattle, Dust, Draught, or Wet is Prevented.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriage and House Windows whereby all Rattle,
Dust, Draught, or Wet is Prevented.
HENRY SHIELS, of Number Three, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, in the (ounty of
Midlothian, North Britain Coach-builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
On each side of lintel or sash frame an indiarubber cushion is fitted extending its
whole length and width and fixed theirto; on the window frame is fitted up each edge,
metal plates or stripes, fitted with one or more pulleys or revolving wheels, and fixed
to said metal plates or strips, the said pulleys or revolving wheels projecting out past
edge of window frame and theirby forming a bed in rubber cushion of lintel or sash
frame.
Fig. 1. a. lintel or sash frame. b. rubber cushion. c. window frame. d. metal
plate. e. revolving wheel.
As the construction may be reversed I give a modification of my invention the
indiarubber cushion may be vulcanised or fixed to metal plates or strips, up each
edge, or all round window frame, corresponding to depth and width of recess in lintel
or sash frame, or the window frame may be dispensed with and the metal plates or
strips fitted to glass only, and the pulleys or revolving wheels fitted to lintel or sasb
frame.
Fig. II. a. lintel or sash frame. c. window frame. b. rubber cushion. d. metal
plate. e. revolving wheels.
I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings showing two modifications of my
improvements in carriage & house windows, in these drawings the same referance
letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are shown.
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HENRY SHIELS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriage and House Windows whereby all Rattle,
Dust, Draught, or Wet is Prevented.
HENRY SHIELS, Coach-builder 3, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain. I 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:—
On each side of lintel or sash frame of window an indiarubber cushion is fitted
extending its whole length and width and fixed thereto the indiarubber cushion may
be vulcanised to metal cases and fitted into recess of lintel or sash frame of window.
On the window frame is fitted up each edge, metal plates or strips, fitted with one or
more pulleys or revolving wheels and fixed to said metal plates or strips the said pulleys
or revolving wheels projecting out past edge of window frame and thereby forming a
bed in rubber cushion of lintel or sash frame.
Fig. I. a. lintel or sash frame. b. rubber cushion. c. window frame. d. metal
plate. e. revolving wheel.
As the construction may be reversed I give a modification of my invention the
indiarubber cushion may be vulcanised or fixed to metal plates or strips, the said
metal plates or strips fixed up each edge or all round window frame, corresponding to
depth and width of recess in lintel or sash frame of window or the window frame may
be dispensed with and the metal plates or strips fitted to glass only and the pulleys or
revolving wheels fitted to lintel or sash frame.

page_text: Fig. II. a. lintel or sash frame. c. window frame. b. rubber cushion. d. metal
plate. e. revolving wheels.
I wish to adopt a sheet of drawings left with the Provisional Specification, the same
reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The invention of a silent window lintel or sash frame, keeping the window frame
tight in dry weather, preventing the necessity of easing in wet weather, and preventing
all wear to edges of frames.