Improvements in and relating to Windows.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1894-Accepted. 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in and relating to Windows.
JOHN WILLIAM HORSFALL and WILLIAM THOMAS HORSFALL 9 Colville
Street Burnley Lane Burnley, Lancashire Cycle Repairers &c. do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
For window draught excluder which while preventing the ingress of air between
the slight opening usualy found between the top of the bottom sash and the bottom
of the top sash of dwelling house warehouse & other windows made to open &
close by sliding up and down. To be made in iron, tin, zinc, brass, copper, steel,
or other suitable metal in the form of a T end view the stem or upright section
to fit between the top & bottom sashes the cross piece to rest on the flat surface of
the top & bottom sashes to be held firmly in place by the window catch or fastners
when same is turned into its fast position the leaver of the catch will then be over
the cross piece.
Dated this 14th day of November 1893.
JOHN WILLIAM HORSFALL.
WILLIAM THOMAS HORSFALL.
Improvements in and relating to Windows.
JOHN WILLIAM HORSFALL 31 Mercia Street, Willows, Bolton, Lancashire,
and WILLIAM THOMAS HORSFALL 75 Ardwick Street, Burnley Lane Burnley,
Lancashire 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 :-
Window draught excluder which while preventing the ingress of air between
the slight opening usualy found between the top of the bottom sash and the bottom
of the top sash of dwelling house, warehouse and other windows made to open and
close either by slideing up & down by sash cords & weights or hinged or pevits or
other devices will also prevent the rattling of same, likewise prevent & exclude
dust in stormy & other weather that it will render the ordinary common window
catch or fastners quite as safe against the attempts of burglars or house breakers
as the much more expensive catches or fastners &c. made to lock or fasten by
screws or other devices as when the draught excluder is in position it will be
impossable to insert a knife or other instrument between the aperture afore
mentioned to shoot back or otherwise loosen the ordenary window or other catche's
or fastner's.
To be made in iron, tin, zinc, copper, steel, or other suitable metal or meterial in
conjunction with Indian rubber, felt wood, or any other suitable meterials or of one
of the aforesaid metals only or the latter.
The stem or upright section is formed by the two edges of the metal in bending
or otherwise & to fit between the top & bottom sashes or meeting bars C. C. & the
beading of the exluder to rest on the flat surfaces of meeting bars C. C. the space H
to be opened or closed or otherwise paded or packed with, rubber, felt, cloth, wood
& other suitable or handy meterial so as to allow of the varying spaces usually
found between the sashes or meeting bars C. C. & to be held firmly in its place by

page_text: screws going into or through the sashe's & excluder or by other means or without
screws, when the lever on being pul over in the usual way will fasten it, as the
excluder will then be under the lever of the window catch or fastner's, A is the
excluder in position, D is the excluder out of position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
Firstly. A draught and dust excluder and a preventor of windows rattling.
Secondly. To prevent the catch's of windows being pushed back by any thin
instrument.
Thirdly. Consists of piece of tin the length according to width of windows x 2 in.
folded over a piece of wire to form a bead likewise acting as a stopper to prevent
the invention dropping to low or even through, between the meeting bars, also the
wire going through & forming the bead is likewise a stay or stiffner to the
excluder.
Dated this 4th day of August. 1894.
JOHN WILLIAM HORSFALL,
31, Mercia Street, Willows, Bolton."
WILLIAM THOS. HORSFALL,
75, Ardwick Street, Burnley Lane, Burnley.