Window or Hot-bed Sash and Connecting Piece therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Window or Hot-bed Sash and Connecting Piece therefor.
We THEODORE FETTERO LONGENECKER, Horticulturist, of Dayton, Ohio,
United States of America, and THE PEIRCE AND COLEMAN COMPANY, Manu-
facturers, of the same place, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The invention relates especially to glazed sash for hot-beds, and is intended to
make a stronger sash than usual, and to protect the joints of wooden sash or frame
so as to prevent rotting at the joints, from exposure to the weather.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a hot-bed sash, showing sash bars,
corner plate, and one form of mullion socket.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modification.
Fig. 3 is a detached view of the mullion socket shown in Fig. 1, and
Fig. 4 a similar view of the mullion socket of Fig. 2.
A and A¹ indicate the side bars, and B, B¹ the end bars of a sash. C denotes
the mullion or transom bar. All these parts are of wood.
The side bar A. has a rebate D. The end bar B is only as thick as the part of
the side bar below the rebate.
The corner plate E is of cast metal, or may be struck up to form. It has a
flange E¹ on the level of the upper part of bar A, and a lower flange E², which is
sunk into the side and end bars to the level of the bottom of the rebate. Glass can
then be laid in the rebate, and held down by putty. The metallic corner piece
will close the joint against wet, and as it is at these joints that wooden sash first
begin to decay, the sash will last much longer when so protected. The glass and
putty protect the metal plate from water to a great extent.
The corner piece can be held to the bars by screws or nails passing through
holes in the metal pieces.
The mullion C has rebates D, like the side bars. The mullion socket, F, is a
casting with a mortice F¹ for the body of the mullion, and ribs F, F, extending
up to the height of the top of the putty flange or tongue C₁, and forming a con-
tinuation of the sides of said flange or tongue. The application of the socket to
the end bar and mullion is clearly shown in Fig. 1, and the glass are applied in
rebate D to cover the lower floor of the socket.
The corner piece shown in Fig. 2 is like that in Fig. 1 except the flange E' is
higher than flange E³, to fit end bars which are rebated instead of being thinner
than the side bars.
The mullion socket Fig. 3 has its flange F* raised to the height of the central
bar or putty flange of the mullion. The manner of applying glass to the sash
and securing the glass therein by putty is the usual manner of setting glass.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The window or hot-bed sash constructed substantially as described, of wood
with metallic corner pieces having flanges on the level of the top and bottom of
the rebate in the side and end bars, so as to lie mainly under the glass of the sash.
2. The window or hot-bed sash having its wooden transom or mullion bars

page_text: entering metallic sockets which have flanges at the bottom of the rebates, and
upward projections to the height of the putty bar of the mullion, substantially as
described.
Dated this 5th day of May 1891.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.