Improvements in Devices for Opening, Closing, and Adjusting Fanlights, Sashes, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Opening, Closing, and Adjusting
Fanlights, Sashes, and the like.
I, RICHARD RIDGWAY HARRISON trading as Loach & Clarke of No. 20 Essington
Street Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the method of opening closing and securing Fanlights,
Sashes, Ventilators &c., by means of a rod carrying certain attachments by which
apparatus the fanlight is opened closed and secured as may be desired.
The rod slides through a screw socket and guide eyes fastened to the mullion, a
thumb screw in the socket enables the rod to be secured at any point in its travel. To
the top end of the rod is attached a short arm (hereafter called the socket arm) one
end of which is in the form of a socket through which the lifting rod is passed and
firmly secured by a screw or screws.
A hole is drilled through the socket arm parallel to the socket and through this hole
is passed a guide or bearing rod which is held fast and firm in place by two of the
The socket arm
guide eyes (extended for that purpose) fastened to the mullion.
carries a connecting rod attached to the fanlight frame by either a plate or a bracket.
The fanlight is made to open or close by pushing the lifting rod up and down.
When the opener is in operation the chief strain or weight of the window is on the
guide or bearing rod, instead of upon the lifting rod, the friction being thereby
lessened giving great ease and power to the opener.
dow of March 1888
R. R. HARRISON,
Trading as Loach & Clarke,
20 to 25, Essington Street, Birmingham.

page_text: Improvements in Devices for Opening, Closing, and Adjusting
Fanlights, Sashes, and the like.
I, RICHARD RIDGWAY HARRISON trading as Loach and Clarke of No. 20 Essington
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Brass-founder, 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 an improved means for the opening, closing, and securing
of fanlights, sashes, ventilators and the like, and consists essentially of a rod carrying
certain attachments, which on being reciprocated, or its position changed by a sliding
motion, a window or the like, is opened or closed.
The rod also slides through the eye or socket part of a clamping device, which thus
enables the rod to be fixedly secured in any adjusted position.
Fixedly secured near the top of the rod, is a goose-neck shaped arm, and transversely
through the middle of which, a guide or bearing rod passes, whose upper ends are
attachedly secured to the mullion or other support, whilst the extreme outer end of
the socket arm is jointedly connected to the outer end of a connecting rod, whose
inner end is jointedly connected and attached to the fanlight or other frame; so that by
reciprocating the lifting or operating rod, a hinged window or other fanlight is
opened or closed, through the intervention of the connecting rod, which makes a
varying angle in respect to the window, on the said rod being raised or lowered.
When operated, the primary strain in opening, and the weight of the window,
comes upon the guide rod or rods, instead of upon the lifting rod, by which means,
the lifting or operating rod is worked with great case and freedom, in consequence of
little or no friction subsisting between it, and its guide brackets.
The sudden closing or slamming of the window, consequent upon the gravitating
effect upon its own weight, is checked by a coiled spring, interposed between the
socket arm or its equivalent, (a block attachment,) and a fixed guide bracket.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents closed, a front clevation of a
window or fanlight, provided with opening and closing mechanism or means, con-
structed and arranged according to this invention.
Figure 2 represents the same, with the window partially opened.
Figure 3 represents partly in vertical section, and partly in elevation, the said
window closed, as in figure 1, and with the opening and closing expedients, assuming
the respective positions as represented in figure 1.
Figure 4 represents a vertical section, partly in elevation, like that of figure 3, but
with the window as represented in the said figure 2.
Figures 4 and 4B represent plan and elevation of the said goose-neck shaped arm
or socket.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 1 to 4.
a is a lifting or operating rod, (square in cross section) working and sliding through
the eyes 62, of guide brackets b, fixedly secured to the architrave, mullion or other
frame or support c.

page_text: The upper end of the said rod a, has affixedly secured to it, a goose-neck shaped
adjustable socket arm e, secured to the rod by affixing screws f, whilst the middle of
the arm is pierced with a hole or passage e2, wherethrough a guide or bearing rod d
passes. This guide or bearing rod, which is of a length a little longer than the
traverse of the socket arm, is connected at its ends to the guide brackets b.
To the extreme-outer end el, of the arm e, the upper end of a connecting rod h, is
jointedly connected, whilst the lower end of the said connecting rod is jointedly
connected to the frame g, of a window, horizontally hung or hinged at g³.
k is a clamping device, consisting of a milled or ribbed head, with a screw shank,
which takes within the screw neck of a bracket k², wherethrough the rod or bar a
passes, and with the lower end of the said stem, coming upon its top side, whicn
screwed home. This clamping device affixes the rod in its adjusted position, when
the window is either opened or closed.
The rod a, has at its lower end a handle or lifter 1, by means of which the rod or
bar is raised and lowered.
A window is opened and closed as follows.
By releasing the clamping device k, the roda is free, which thus allows it to he
lowered, by the pulling down of the handle I, at its lower end, and thereby lowering
the arm e with it, which slides upon the bearing rod d, as a guide.
The said lowering of the rod and arm e, compels the connecting rod h, to make an
angular movement, and push outwards the lower part of the window g, connected to
the inner end of the said connecting rod; and when in this position, the window is
kept open, by the clamping of the said rod in its adjusted position, by the device k.
Figure 5 represents another form of my invention, showing the window closed.
Figure 6 shows the same, with the window open, which is hinged upon its
lower-side.
Figure 7 shows a vertical section, partly in elevation of figure 5, and figure 8
represents a like section and elevation as figure 7, but with the parts represented in
the positions which they assume in figure G. Figures 84 and 8B, represent plan and
elevation of the sliding block.
ais a square section lifting rod, which is raised and lowered for the opening of the
window as before. b, b, are guide brackets, through the eyes 2 of which, the said
rod passes, and is raised and lowered. These bracket eyes are affixed to mullions or
other supports c, while the back e, which is affixed by small screws, to near the
upper end of the said rod a, has jointedly-connected to it, a connecting rod h, whose
lower end is jointedly connected to the end of an outstanding bracket m, whose inner
end is attached to one side of the window frame g, which is hung or hinged at g².
The block e, has a hole e², through it, wherethrough the bearing rod d as a guide,
passes and disposed between the lower bracket of the pair of brackets, which are
common to both operating rod and bearing rod, and the underside of the block e, is a
coiled, spring n, which acts as a check or spring buffer, for preventing the too sudden
closing or slamming of the window, on the same being closed, consequent upon the
releasing of the rod, held by the clamping device k, k².
Thus, the raising of the rod a, by its handle 1, when the parts are in the position as
represented in figures 6 and 8, draws inwardly the connecting rod h, and brings them
in the position (with the window closed) as represented in figures 6 and 7.
The reverse action of the rod, which is accomplished by the gravitating effect of
the window or frame, lowers the block e, with its underside coming upon one end of
the extended spring encircling the bearing rod, upon which the said block slides, and
is thereby guided; so that any concussion, or too sudden opening is prevented.
Figure 9 represents another form of my invention. Figure 10 is a like section with
the window closed; figures 11 and 12 represent front elevations of the said figures 9
and 10, and figures 12 and 128, represent the arm separately. It will be seen that
in this particular arrangement, the block or arm slides upon two bearing rods as guides,
instead of one, and is affixedly connected to the extreme upper end of the
operating rod, instead of near its upper end, as in the preceding arrangements.

page_text: By thus arranging the connection, the end of the said rod is made to project higher
than the top bracket, carrying the guide of the block.
a is a lifting or operating rod, with a handle or lift at its lower end, and con-
nected at its upper end to. a sliding goose-neck shaped arm e, with dual eyes e²,
wherethrough the bearing rods d, pass as guides, for conducting the said arm to and
fro, on the opening and closing of the window g, which is hung at its upper end g²,
and connected to the opening and closing device at ', to the connecting rod h, whose
upper end is connected to the block or arm as aforesaid.
Concussion or slamming of the window is prevented, by arranging coiled springs n,
between the underside of the top bracket b, and the upper side of the body of the arm
or block e, as aforesaid.
It will be seen that the rod a, works through eyes 62, 63, of the bracket and
supplementary bracket b, b, and it is held in its adjusted position, by the clamping
device k, k².
The goose-neck shaped socket arm e, may if necessary be modified in configuration,
according to the class of window, to which my said new or improved opening and
closing appliance is or may be applied; and further, the said socket, which is adjustable
upon the rod, may be affixed other than by screws.
Figure 13 represents an arm; for a window which opens inwards.
Figure 14 shows a modified form of arm, for a window hinged at right angles to
architrave.
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
1 claim is
First A device for opening, closing, and affixing fanlights, sashes and other like
windows, consisting of an operating rod a, arm or block e, guide or guides d, and
connecting rod or jointed limb h, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly Operating the jointed connecting rod or rods, of fanlight, and other
hung sashes, and windows, by means of a goose-neck arm, block or its equivalent,
carried by an operating rod, and guided by bearing rod or rods, as a guide or guides,
substantially as set forth in the several figures of the drawings.
Thirdly Opening and closing fanlights, and other hung windows, by a sliding
operating rod, with an arm or block, carried by it, which is conducted in its traverse,
by guide rods, substantially as set forth.
Lastly-Making: the goose-neck shaped socket arm, block or its equivalent,
adjustable upon the operating and sliding rod, substantially as described, and for the
purpose herein set forth.
Dated the Eighth day of Dacambar 1888
HARD RIDGWAY HARRISON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.