OPENING CLOSEING AND FASTNING TOP AND BOTTOM SLIDING SASHES OF WINDOWS
Year: 1885

page_text: WILLIAM MCGILL 32 Cottage Grove Stockwell Lambeth London S.W. (Clerk of
Works) do hereby declare the nature of my invention for OPENING CLOSEING AND
FASTNING TOP AND BOTTOM SLIDING SASHES OF WINDOWS to be as follows:-
The top sash is opend and closed by a hollow moveable metal rod each side of
sash connected to top rail of top sash by a metal bracket with screw and two
regulating nutts and loose eye pin the hollow moveable metal rod is connected to
this eye pin by a small screw part of the rod is cut out to allow of its beeing turnd
partly round on the eye pin for fastning sashes A guide eye for keeping these
rods in place is fixd to meeting rail of sashes, at bottom of these rods knob handles
are fix for working the rods fastning both sashes by turning the knob on to a
metal lip fix on style of bottom sash these rods slide on to a metal guide fixd on
to bottom sash the bottom part of which guide is a lift for rasing bottom sash Top
and bottom sashs are connected together by these rods,

page_text: Improved Means for Opening, Closing, and Fastening Sliding
Windows.
I WILLIAM MCGILL of 32 Cottage Grove Stockwell Lambeth London S.W.
Clerk of Works 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 consists of the improved means or apparatus herein after described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings for opening closing and fastening
sliding windows.
According to my invention the top sash is provided with a moveable metal
tube on each side which tube is attached to the top rail of the top sash by a metal
bracket on plate haveing a projecting screwed pin which is screwed into the eye
of a pin or pivot on which the tube can partly rotate the connection of the tube
with the pin or pivot being effected by a screw pin passed through a horzontal
slot in the tube working into the said pin or pivot the metal tubes at the sides
of the upper sash are fitted upon and are capable of sliding up and down solid
rods at the sides of the lower sash the said rods acting as guides for the said
tubes these rods are fixed to metal plates attached to the bottom rail of the bottom
sash the said plates being furnished with projectioms which form lifts for opeing
the said bottom sash. A metal knob or handle is attached near the bottom of each
tube for raising or lowering the said tubes and the sash to which they are attached
the said knobs or handles in conjunction with horozontal arms on the bottom sash
serve on partly turning them to fasten the top and bottom sashes.
I will now discrbe with referince to the accompanying drawings the manner in
which my invention is to be performed Figure 1 represents in elevation and
Figure 2 in vertical section a window to the sliding sashes of which my invention is
applied. Figures 3. 4. 5 and 6 represent borozontal soctions of portioms of the same
the section Figure 3 is taken on the dotted line L L Figure 1 the section Figure 4 is
taken on the dotted lins M M Figure 1 the section Figure 5 is taken on the dotted
line N N Figure 1 and the section Figure 6 is taken on the dotted lines O. O.
Figure 1 the same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several
Figures of the drawing. A is the top sliding sash and B is the bottom sliding
sash F are the sliding tubes attached to the sides of the top sash A and sliding
upon the fixed guide rods J J attached to the sides of the lower sash B the sliding
tubes Fare capable of a partial rotation for fastening the two sashes A. B. together
the said tubes F F are connected to the top rail of the upper sash A by means of
the horozontal brackets C, C, upon the screwed ends of which the projecting pieces
or pivots b. b are screwed the upper ends of the tubes F F pass into the projecting
pieces b. b and are connected thereto by means of set screws passed through the
horizontal slots in the said tubes working into the said pieces b b the pieces b b
constitute pivots on which the tubes F turn the slots in them permitting of there
partial rotation through the angle required to fasten or unfasten the sashes as
hereinafter described it will be seen by an examination of the drawings that the

page_text: tubes F F extend below the meeting rail of the bottom sash and on the said
meeting rail ring like guides G are fixed for the tubes F to slide in.
Near the bottom ends of each sliding tube F is a handle H by which in con-
junction with the horizontal arm I on the style of the lower sash the fastening of
the two sashes is effected the construction of the horizomtal arm I is best seen in
Figure 5 the fixed guide rods J on the lower sash are screwed to and carried by
horizontal plates K which constitute lifts for the said bottom sash in order to raise
or lower the top sash A the handles H H are grasped by the hands the tubes F F
as the sash A is lowered or raised sliding upon the guide rods J J in order to
lower or raise the bottom sash B it is acted upon by the lifts K. K. The guide
rods J J as the sash B is raised or loured sliding into or out of the tules F F when
both sashes are in their fully closed position they can be fastened together by the
handles H H being turned aside into the positioms indicated in dotted lines in
Figures 1. 2. and 5 by the turning aside of the handles H. H they are bought
over the horizontal arms I and the two sashes are thereby fastened together that is
to say the upper sash cannot descend in consequences of the handles H H carried by
the tubes F F on the said upper sash crossing the arms II on the lower sash B
and the lower sash B cannot be raised in consequence of the position of the arms II
on the said lower sash with respect to the crossing handles H H see Figure 5 as the
handles H H are turned aside for fastening or unfastening the sashs the tules F F
swivel or perform a partial rotation on the pivots b. b. in order to unfasten the
sashes it is only necessary to restore the handles H H to the positions represented
in continuous lines the said handles no longer crossing the arms II either the upper
or lower sash or both sashes can be opened.
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
First. The means or the combination of the parts of apparatus herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing for opening and closing the
sashes of sliding windows.
Secondly. The combination with the opening and closing apparatus clamed in
the first clame of the arrangement of parts herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing for fastening together the upper and lower sashes of
sliding windous.
Dated this and I final 1000