IMPROVEMENTS IN SASHFASTENERSs
Year: 1885

page_text: I, SAMUEL HURST, of 112 Portland Street Southport in the County of Lancaster,
Architect, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SASHFASTENERS to be as follows:---
"
It consists in making the pulley stile of the windowframe with a series of bolt
holes, one above the other, protected by means of a thin striking plate, or by fixing
a metal rack to the pulley stile.
Upon the side stile of the sliding sash I fix one or more thumb bolts of any
convenient ordinary make, either spring or otherwise, which bolts take or can be
bolted into the bolt holes or metal rack as the case may be.
By means of this arrangement the window can be fixed securely down or can be
raised to any desired height and there securely fixed, and in the case of a double
sliding sash the lower sash can be used without counterpoise weights, or hanging,
as it is termed.
Also owing to the position of the bolts they cannot be tampered with from
outside thus preventing any risk of housebreaking.

page_text: I, SAMUEL HURST of 112 Portland Street, Southport in the County of Lancaster,
Architect, 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 :-
It consists in making the pulley style of the windowframe with a series of bolt-
holes, one above the other, either plain, or protected by means of a thin metal
striking plate, or by fixing a suitable metal rack to the pulley style.
Upon the side style of the sliding sash I fix one or more thumb bolts of any
convenient ordinary make, either spring or otherwise, which bolts take, or can be
bolted into the boltholes or metal rack as the case may be.
By means of this arrangement the window can be fixed securely down, or can be
raised to any desired height and there securely fixed, and in the case of a double-
sliding sash, the lower sash can be used if desired without counterpoise weights, or
hanging, as it is termed.
Also owing to the position of the bolts, they cannot be tampered with from
outside, thus preventing any risk of housebreaking.
In order that the foregoing may be better understood I send herewith a Sheet of
Drawings in which :-
:-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a double sash fitted with the apparatus, with part of
the pulley style in section to show the boltholes. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the two
pulley styles. Fig. 3 is a full size view of a suitable thumb bolt, which works in
the holes bored in the plain pulley style, or in a suitable striking plate or rack
similar that shown in section and elevation in Figs. 4 and 5; which may be either
screwed flat to the pulley style or used as a rack. I do not restrict myself to the
exact thumb bolt or rack here shown.
In all the Figs. a indicates the pulley style, the thumb-bolt and c c the bolt-
holes, into which the bolts take, as shown at d in Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Making the pulley style of a sliding sash with a series of boltholes, one
above another, or a metal rack, to be used in combination with one or more
ordinary thumbolts, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore, and in the
accompanying Drawing, for the purpose set forth.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
Agent to Applicant,