Improvements in and relating to Safety Windows for Nurseries and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Safety Windows for Nurseries
and the like. .
I, HENRY REED, of 182, Ivydale Road, Nunhead in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in, or connected with, sliding windows,
and has for its object to provide nursery and other windows with protecting
bars for preventing the inmates of a nursery or other apartment, from falling
out of such windows, such protecting bars only coming into operation when
the windows to which they are applied, are opened. Heretofore, it was the
practice to provide fixed bars or their equivalent to the window-sills or frames
outside nursery and other wintlows, for the purpose of preventing accident,
but since these bars or their equivalent were always in evidence, whether the
windows were closed or open, they were objectionable for several reasons, chiefly
among which was the tendency to obscure the view from the windows and
intercept the light, which it has been proved, impaired the eyesight of children
and others in course of time.
Now by my invention, these defects are remedied, and while there is provided
an efficient safeguard against accident, such safeguarding means will only be
in evidence when the window is opened.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein;--
Fig. 1, is an elevational view of an open window, to which my invention is
applied.
Fig. 2, being a sectional view of a portion of the lower rail of a window
illustrating in detail the working of the protecting guards.
C
Referring to the drawing wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts in both figures, a are a number of metal or other bars or rods,
which are fixed to the lower rail 1 of the window 6, such bars or rods working
up and down in guide-tubes which are secured in recesses in the brick work
below, and in a plane with, the window. These guide-tubes c are preferably
somewhat longer than the bars a, and are open at the lower ends as well as
the upper ones, in order to prevent dust and dirt accumulating in such guide-
tubes, and interfering with the free movement of the window.
The said guide-tubes c have their upper openings in the window sill or
that part of the frame where the lower rail of the window b rests when the
window is closed, and such guide-tubes may be conveniently leaded in the
recesses formed for their reception in the window-sill and brick work.
Although I have shewn the protecting bars a as being applied to the lower
sash of a window, such bars may conveniently be applied to the upper sash
as well, and also to windows having a horizontal sliding movement,"

page_text: 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:
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The improvements in, or connected with, windows, consisting in the provision
of protecting bars a upon the window sash or sashes, said rods working in
guide-tubes c let into the adjacent brick work or frame in a plane with the
window; said guide-tubes being open at both ends and of greater length than
the bars working within them, substantially as and for the purpose described,
and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 4th day of November 1898
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for Applicant.