Improvements in Devices for Providing for the Ready Removal of Sliding Sashes from Window Frames and for their Easy Manipulation During Cleaning or Repair.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Providing for the Ready Removal
of Sliding Sashes from Window Frames and for their Easy
Manipulation During Cleaning or Repair.
I, CHARLES LOUIS FERDINAND WIPPLING of No. 95 Godolphin Road,
Shepherds Bush, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in devices for providing for the ready
removal of sliding sashes froin window frames and for their easy manipulation
during cleaning or repair.
In carrying it into effect, I make one side bead detachable, providing it with
suitable devices of the screw or bolt type for holding it in position. Both beads
may be so treated if preferred. The end of the sash line is made fast to the
respective side of the sash at a point much lower than the transverse centre line of
the latter, by being passed through a hole in a metal plate, a washer larger than
the said hole, and finally knotted on the outer-side of the washer, the plate being
recessed into the side of the sash to a sufficient depth. The edge of the hole in the
plate is bevelled off to prevent it cutting its line.
The plate above mentioned may be made to be slid into its position from the
hottom of the sash along a double ✓ groove; the latter having a suitable
extension to permit of the passage of the knot on the end of the sash line. Any
suitable automatic catch may be provided to hold the plate in position.
Dated this 13th day of June 1895.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Providing for the Ready Removal
of Sliding Sashes from Window Frames and for their Easy
Manipulation During Cleaning or Repair.
I, CHARLES LOUIS FERDINAND WIPPLING, of No. 95 Godolphin Road,
Shepherds Bush, in the County of Middlesex, Billiard Table 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in devices designed to provide for the
ready removal of sliding sashes from window frames and for their easy manipulation
during cleaning or repair.
Referring to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
Specification and read therewith:-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window frame and sashes provided with the
said improvements.
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section taken along the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a side view of part of a sash frame on an enlarged scale.
Figure 4 represents a front elevation of part of a sash frame, partly in section,
and corresponding with Figure 3.

page_text: Figure 5 represents one end of a sash line furnished with a washer.
Figure 6 shews a front and side view of the locking wedge of the line holder.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
In carrying my said invention into effect, I make one or both side beads A of
the window fraine B detachable, for which purpose they are provided with
devices C, C, and D, D, to hold them in position. These devices may consist of
hooks, each of which is adapted to be moved in a slit formed in the bead A and
fixed upon a screw or bolt which is held in the bead at one end by a nut and at the
other end by the head which may receive a ring, lever or the like for enabling such
bolt to be turned.
At the point of the window frame B corresponding to the aforesaid hook I also
form a slit, so that when the before mentioned screw or bolt is turned the hook
will be moved through the slit and take behind a pin extending across the slit or
behind a plate presenting such slit and fixed to the frame B, thus firmly securing
.the bead in position. From the top end of the bead projects a pin D designed to
extend into a corresponding hole in the upper part of the frame B.
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One end of the sash line E receives a washer G, by which it is secured to the
side of the sash F at a point either above or below the transverse centre line of
the latter, by passing the said washer G through a hole or recess H into a slot H¹
in the said frame. At the point where the sash presents this slot, I mortice a
metal plate I secured by means of screws and having a slot which corresponds to
that in the sash F, but is somewhat less in width so as to afford a hold for the
washer G at the end of the sash line E. This plate 1, the surface of which is flush
with the side of the sash F, may extend only over part of the length of the said
slot, as shewn in Figure 3, or over the entire length of the same. Its upper part I¹
covering a portion of the slot in the sash F is recessed and forms a continuation of
the groove in the side of the sash for the passage of the sash line E. This
arrangement has been devised with the object of enabling the sash line E to be
easily and expeditiously attached to the sash, as shewn in Figures 3 and 4, and
detached from the same, as shewn in Figure 2.
A dove-tailed recess formed either in the material at the sides of the slot H¹ in
the sash For in the lower portion of the metal plate I serves for the reception of a
wedge J designed to prevent the end of the sash line E accidentally slipping from
the said slot in the plate I.
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This dove-tailed wedge and recesses, may be replaced by a pin or screw passing
through the metal plate. I and at a point just below where the sash line is held, as
shewn by the dotted lines wo wo in Figures 3 and 4.
Instead of securing the metal plate I to the side of the sash, as herein before set
forth, the arrangement may be such that it can be slid into its position from the
bottom of the sash F along a double V groove, the latter having a suitable
extension in width and depth so as to permit of the passage of the washer G
at the end of the sash line behind the said slot or plate, as will be readily
understood. Any suitable automatic catch may be provided to hold the plate in
position.
In order to remove either the top sash or the bottom sash from the window
frame for cleaning or repair it is moved to its lowest position in the frame, then
the beads are removed, whereupon the sash may be turned inwards while it is
held suspended by the sash lines so as to allow the same to be easily manipulated,
and if the sash is to be taken away from the window frame altogether the
sash line may be detached in the described manner, which can be effected in a
very short time.
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 :-
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1. In combination with a window frame a sash provided in its sides with a
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hole

page_text: attaching the extremity of the sash line E by a washer G to the frame F,
substantially as herein before set forth.
2. The combination, with a window frame of detachable beads A furnished
with devices C C D for holding the same in position, substantially as hereinbefore.
set forth.
3. The combination, with a window frame of sashes furnished with devices [fo
removably attaching the sash lines to the sashes and of detachable beads having
devices for securing the same to the frame, as and for the purposes hereinbefore
set forth with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 13th day of March 1896.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.