Year: 1888

page_text: I, PHINEHAS EDWARD AYTON of the firm of Thomas Pemberton and Sons of
Livery Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In casement stays, as ordinarily constructed, the affixing screw passes directly
through the guide box, and with its acting end, taking directly upon the top face of a
stay, and by means of which, the said stay is held.
The object of my invention is to increase the gripping power upon the said stay
bars, which is accomplished by means as herein after described.
According to one form of my invention, I make the guide box swivel horizontally
upon the underside, and within the middle of an attachment plate, which is secured
to a door or window framing.
Directed upwardly from the top face or top side of the swivelling guide box, which
is open at its two opposite ends, is a screw, or screw stem upon which, a milled head or
turn, takes, with its lower underside broadened out into an extended bearing; and
which said head or turn is made non-detachable, by a head or expanded part, on the
top of the screw.
Embracing the two opposite ends and top of the swivelling guide, is an open-ended
saddle clip, whose open ends are of the same size and shape, as the open ends of the
box, and through which open ends of both swivelling guide and saddle clip, the plain
stay bar passes, and with the underside of the head or nut, coming upon the top side
of the saddle clip; so that by screwing home the said head or nut, as aforesaid, the
bar is gripped by the upper inside edges of the holes as aforesaid of the saddle clip.
Thus, the swivelling open-ended stay box, through which the plain stay passes,
fits within the inside of the saddle clip, and with the top side of the box coming
within a short distance of the underside of the clip, and with the upwardly directed
screw or screw stem, passing through a hole in the middle of the clip.
The broadened out underside of the head or nut, takes an extended bearing upon
the top of the clip; so that on the said head being turned forward, an instantaneous
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page_text: grip is made, by the clip impressing itself upon the top face of the stay-bar, at two
opposite points.
The stay bar has the usual jointed bracket connections at one end.
As a modification, I make the screw separate from the box, and pass the same
through a downwardly directed screw hole, made through a bossed or neck part, on
the top of the clip; and which screw is provided with a milled head, for the turning
of it, and when in use, the lower end of the screw comes upon the top face of the stay
swivelling box, thereby causing the stay bar to be gripped at two opposite points on
its underside, by the forcing upwards of the clip.
Thus, when the stay is required to be fixed, the milled head is turned, causing
the screwed end to abut against the box, and bring the bottom edges of the
openings in the clip, forcibly upon the underside of the said stay.
The ends of the clip in the first form of my invention, may be made forked,
instead of being provided with holes, of the figure of the cross section of the stay..
Dated this Twenty-third day of March 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Casement and other Stays.
I, PHINEAS EDWARD AYTON of the firm of Thomas Pemberton and Sons of
Livery Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, 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:
In casement stays as ordinarily constructed, the affixing screw passes directly
through the guide box, and with its acting end taking directly upon the top face of
a stay, and by means of which, the said stay is held.
The object of my invention is to increase the gripping power upon the said stay-
bars, which is accomplished by means as herein-after described.
According to one form of my invention, I make the guide box swivel horizontally
upon the underside, and within the middle of an attachment plate, which is secured
to a door or window framing.
Directed upwardly from the top face or top side of the swivelling guide box,
which is open at its two opposite ends, is a screw or screw stem, upon which a
milled head or turn takes, with its lower underside broadened out into an extended
bearing; and which said head or turn is made nondetachable by a head or expanded
part, on the top of the screw.
Embracing the two opposite ends and top of the swivelling guide, is an open-
ended saddle clip, whose open ends are of the same size and shape as the open ends
of the box, and through which open ends of both swivelling guide and saddle clip,
the plain stay-bar passes, and with the underside of the head or nut, coming upon
the top side of the saddle clip; so that by screwing home the said head or nut as
aforesaid, the bar is gripped by the upper inside edges of the holes as aforesaid of the
saddle clip.
Thus, the swivelling open-ended stay box, through which the plain stay passes,
fits within the inside of the saddle clip, and with the top side of the box coming
within a short distance of the underside of the clip, and with the upwardly
directed screw or screw stem passing through a hole in the middle of the clip.
The broadened out underside of the head or nut, takes an extended bearing
upon the top of the clip; so that on the said head being turned forward, an
instantaneous grip is made, by the clip impressing itself upon the top face of the
stay bar at two opposite points.
The stay bar has the usual jointed bracket connection at one end.
As a modification, I make the screw separate from the box, and pass the same
through a downwardly directed screw hole, made through a bossed or neck part, on
the top of the clip; and which screw is provided with a milled head for the turning
of it, and when in use, the lower end of the screw comes upon the top face of the stay
swivelling box, thereby causing the stay bar to be gripped at two opposite points on
its underside, by the forcing upwards of the clip.

page_text: screwed end to abut against the box, and bring the bottom edges of the openings in
the clip, forcibly upon the underside of the said stay.
The ends of the clip in the first form of my invention, may be made forked,
instead of being provided with holes, of the figure of the cross section of the stay.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents partly in elevation, and partly in
vertical section, a casement stay, constructed and arranged according to my said
invention.
Figure 2 represents an elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the dotted lines A B figure 1.
Figure 4 represents the guide box, and its fixed screw or screw stem, directed from
its upper side, separately.
Figure 5 is an end elevation of the saddle clip, while figures 6 and 7 are
side and end elevations of a fork ended clip, which is a modification of the one as
aforesaid.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 1 to 7 both
inclusive of the drawing.
a is a stay bar, jointedly connected at its inner end by a pin or pivot, to a knuckle
bracket b, fixedly secured by small screws, to a casement window c-d is an open-ended
guide-box, with the all-through hole thereof, a little deeper than the cross section
of the stay-bar, to pass therethrough. This guide box is swivelly connected on its
underside, to an attachment plate e, by a pivot axis d³, upon which the said guide box
turns as a centre.
The guide box upper side carries a perpendicular screw or screw stem d', upon the
upper end of which, a milled head takes and screws, and with its underside or
lower shoulder part f³, coming and abuting upon the top side of a saddle clip g,
whose depending ends g² are pierced with longitudinal gaps 9 of about the cross
section of the stay bar to be gripped and held (see the end elevations figures
and 5); so that the plain stay bar a passes both through the rectangular shaped eye d
in the box carrier d, and the like shaped holes g³ in the depending ends g² of the
saddle clip g.
In using the stay, the clamping milled head or screw nut is raised from the top
side of the clip g, which thus relieves the pressure of the inside tops of the holes y³,
upon the top side of the plain stay bar a. Thus, on the pressure of the clamping
device being relieved, the bar a moves freely through the eye of the box and the gaps
or holes in the clip, which admits of the window to which the stay is connected, to
be adjusted and there affixed by the screwing home of the clamping screw.
It will thus be seen, that the stay or bar is gripped between the bottom side of the
hole or eye in the guide box, and the top inside edges g of the holes g³, of the saddle
clip g, whose top is pierced with a hole g³, which is threaded over the screwed stem/
when placed in position.
In figure 6, the ends of the saddle clips are made with open bottoms, or fork
like.
Figure 8 represents another form. In this arrangement, the clamping screw is
made separate from, and with its end coming upon the top of the guide box.
a is a plain stay-bar, jointed at its inner end like figure 1, d is a guide box, with
an all through rectangular hole d², where through the stay bar a freely passes, when.
clamping pressure is relieved.
is a clamping screw, with its stem f passing through the neck g' of a saddle clipg,
with rectangular shaped holes g³, made through the hanging sides g², whilst the
guide box underside is connected to the attachment plate e, by a swivelling stud or
neck d³.
To adjust the stay bar, relieve the pressure of the screw when the stay admits of
being drawn freely through the guide box, and gaps in the clip.
After adjustment, the screwing home of the screw f, brings its stem, upon the
top side of the guide box, which thereby forces upwardly the clip d, so as to make the
lower sides of its gaps g³, to forcibly press upon the underside of the plain stay, which

page_text: brings the top side of the said stay against the top side of the oye d' of the guide box,
thereby clamping the stay bar in position.
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.
First. Providing the guide boxes, or the part through which the stay bar of a case-
ment or other stay passes, with a clamping screw stem or screw, as set forth in
figures 1 to 4.
Secondly-Clamping, or both clamping and gripping, the stay bar of a casement
or other stay, by a clip or saddle clip, constructed substantially as described and set
forth in several figures of the drawings.
Thirdly. The clamping or holding part of a casement or other stay, consisting of
a swivelling guide box d, d², d, saddle clip g, g³, 93, 9, and clamping head or nut f, f;
and which said parts are constructed, arranged and combined with the other parts,
which are old, in the manner as set forth in figures 1 to 7.
Fourthly A casement or other stay-clamping device, consisting of a swivelling
guide box d, d, d³, clip with neck g, g', g², g³, and screw f, f, as set forth in
figure 8..