Improvements in and relating to Windows to Facilitate Cleaning, Glazing, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Windows to Facilitate Cleaning,
Glazing, and the like.
I, ARTHUR ROBERT DOWNs, of 3, Broad Green Avenue, Croydon, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in window cleaning.
The principal object of my said invention is to make improvements in window
sashes such as slide up and down, in such a manner that the said sashes can be
opened into the room.for the purposes of cleaning or glazing the outside of the
same in the room, thereby preventing all danger in doing these things on the
external side of the window.
I will now proceed to shortly describe the means by which I carry out my said
invention:-
The right and left hand internal beads of the window have tongues on them
which fit into corresponding plough grooves in the pulley stiles or linings of the
sash frame, these beads, like the ordinary parting beads, are thus easily removed
and fixed.
The sash lines patent steel ribbon, or the ordinary round corded-are fixed to
the sash stiles by means of screws and rings, from half to two-thirds down from the
top of the said stiles.
The sash lines work in grooves or rabbets cut in the sash stiles, in such a manner
as to allow the sashes to be pulled over from the top into the room, the said lines
freeing themselves to the point of fixture while the said sashes are being so
pulled over.
The length of the sash lines is so adjusted as to allow the sashes when opened
inwards to lie in a horizontal position or nearly so; the said lines, and the bolts
described below, holding the said sashes in that position for cleaning.
Small thumb or other bolts are used to fix the bottom rails of the sashes to the
pulley stiles, these bolts acting as pivots or hinges on which the said sashes are
pulled over.
To prevent the sashes when lying horizontal from unduly straining their lines,
a wire rod or chain is temporarily hooked on to the top of the window-frame, and
on to the top rail of the bottom sash, or a support to the said sashes in the form of
a light pole may be stood on the floor of the room.
Thus, to open the windows for cleaning or glazing the outside of them in the
room, the internal beads and the parting beads are pulled out of their grooves, the
bottoms of the sashes are bolted to the pulley stiles, and the sashes are then pulled
over and laid horizontal.
My improved arrangements for window cleaning as above set forth can be adapted
to existing windows.
Dated this 27th day of April 1894.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Windows to Facilitate Cleaning,.
Glazing, and the like..
I, ARTHUR ROBERT DOWNS, of 3 Broad Green Avenue, Croydon, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described aud
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to windows having sliding sashes and consists in providing
improved means in such windows whereby, in order to facilitate cleaning, glazing,
and the like, the sashes may be opened in such manner that their normally exterior
sides may be brought within the building of which they form part.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a window viewed from the interior of a building;
Figure 2 is a section through the line ay in Figure 1;
Figure 3 is a broken view with the inside lining removed;
Figure 4 shows the window in vertical section with the lower sash frame partly
swung inwards, and Figure 5 shows a like view with both sashes completely
swung inwards as hereinafter described ;
Figure 6 is a detail view hereinafter more particularly referred to.
In the drawings a and a represent respectively the upper and lower sash frames;
the pulley stiles; c the internal beads; d the sash lines; e the weights; and f the
pulleys, which may all be of the usual or any convenient form.
According to my invention grooves or rabbets A are cut in the sash stiles in such
manner as to allow the sash lines to free themselves at their point of fixture.
The sash lines, which are of suitable length, are carried over the pulleys and one
end of each line is attached to a weight e in the usual way. The other end of
each sash line contains, or is formed into, an eye B by means of which it is pivoted
or loosely screwed to the sash stile, as shown, preferably about one half or two-
thirds from the top of each stile and so that the sash line may fit into the groove or
rabbet A when the sash frame is in a vertical position. The parting beads C are
movable and for that purpose are preferably mitered at one end as shown at c', the
sinall upper part being permanently fixed in its position. A portion of both
the right and left-hand inside linings of the window frame is made movable;
the drawings show the parts D, to which the beads c are fixed in the ordinary
way, cut ont and 'hung in their places by hinges and provided with thumb-
screws h or catches to retain them in their closed position. Both the upper and
the lower sash frames require to be pivoted to the pulley stiles. For this
purpose Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5 show bolts k and k', one on each side of the upper
and lower sash 'frames respectively, which take into apertures and in the
pulley stiles. Figure 6 shows another method of pivoting for use when the upper
sash frame has horns m. The horns are cut away as shown at n in order that they
may clear the outer stops when the sash frame is operated as hereinafter described
and the pivoting is shown effected by the thumb-screw p passing through the
horn and taking into apertures in the pulley stiles.
When it is required to reach the exterior of the window the lower sash frame is
pivoted at the points 1, the portions D of the inside linings are detached or opened,
and the frame is then free to be swung inwards as shown in Figure 4.
The
parting beads C are next removed, the upper sash frame is lowered and pivoted at
the points and it is then free to be swung inwards as shown in Figure 5.
To prevent the sashes when lying horizontal from unduly straining their lines,
I may, especially when the sashes are heavy, temporarily suspend or support them as
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page_text: for example by a rod or chain extending from eyes on the exterior of the top rails.
of the sashes to the top of the window frame or a support extending from the
floor of the room to the said sashes.
It will be seen that the bolts k, k' if made to take into additional apertures
will serve the additional purpose of securely fastening the window; also that the
doors D if made sufficiently wide permit of the weights and cords being easily
reached.
Existing windows may be adapted to act in accordance with my invention.
I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction herein set out. For
example a thumb screw as shown in Figure 6 or any other means of pivoting may
be employed in lieu of the bolts k, k', and in lieu of the doors D those portions of
the internal beads c only may be removable in which case they may be detachably
secured to the inside lining by a tongue-and-groove joint or otherwise.
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 :-
1. In a window having sliding sashes adapted to be swung inwards, grooves or
rabbets in the sash stiles in combination with sash lines provided with eyes.
secured to such sash stiles substantially as set forth.
2. The combination, in a window having sliding sashes adapted to be swung
inwards, of grooved or rabbetted sash stiles and sash lines provided with eyes, with
means of pivoting the sashes to the window frames for the purposes specified.
3. In a window having sliding sashes adapted to be swung inwards, the
combination of hinged or detachable portions such as D of the inside lining, sashes
having grooved or rabbetted stiles, sash lines secured thereto having eyes such as B,
movable parting beads having a mitred end c¹ between the sash frames, and bolts
such as k, or their equivalents adapted to take into apertures 1, 1, 1 for the
purpose of pivoting or securing in position the said sashes, substantially as
set forth.
Dated this 11th day of January 1895.
A. F. SPOONER,
124, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.