Improved Method of Suspending Sashes and in Fitting Frames for such Sashes, and in Appliances connected therewith to Facilitate their Reversal or Removal for Cleaning or other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
Improved Method of Suspending Sashes, and in Fitting Frames for
such Sashes, and in Appliances connected therewith to Facilitate
their Reversal or Removal for Cleaning or other Purposes.
I, JOHN WALLER of 28 Delaune Street, Kennington Park, Surrey, Builder, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
According to my invention, I make the sashes in the ordinary manner but without
the cord grooves.
I groove and rebate the pulley stiles and suspend each sash at the lower ends to
Tee or equivalent pieces connected to the cords said Tee pieces also serving as pivots
on which the sashes can be opened by a fall inwards to enable the outside of the glass
to be cleaned or the sashes painted or reglazed or for the sashes to be removed for any
purpose.
I prefer to hinge the side beads to about half their height and enable them to be
thrown round and the sash or sashes when lowered to be folded down.
The sashes can be removed without disturbing any of the fixed pieces of the sash
frames.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. Waller.

page_text: Improved Method of Suspending Sashes, and in Fitting Frames for
such Sashes, and in Appliances connected therewith to Facilitate
their Reversal or Removal for Cleaning or other Purposes.
I JOHN WALLER, of 28, Delaune Street, Kennington Park, Surrey, Builder do
hereby declare the nature of my said 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 a novel manner of suspending window sashes and in fitting
them in their frames, that they can be raised and lowered with facility and by a pivot
arrangement of a special kind, either sash can, when lowered be brought or turned
over into a room to enable the outside of the glass to be cleaned or painting to be
done, without risk of a servant or other person going outside.
For the purpose of my invention I make the sashes in the ordinary manner but
.without the cord grooves. I groove and double rebate the pulley stiles as indicated in
the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a pair of sashes and frame partly in
section, in their respective positions they would occupy when closed. Figure 2 repre-
sents the lower sash thrown up and the upper sash drawn down and turned over
with the greater part of it in the room, the sash resting upon the bottom bead.
Figure 3 shows a top sectional plan of a pair of sashes and a sash frame with my
improved grooved and rebated pulley stile.
Figures 4 and 5 represent two kinds of cord and running sockets with a plug or
rod projection as the pivot on which the sash is hung or suspended and also on which
it turns, a knot or preferably a screw el being used to fix the cord in the socket.
Both sashes a,, are suspended at their lower ends on the plug ends c of the
sockets d as pivots, these being preferably set in collars let into the sashes for ease of
action when the sashes have to be lowered or turned inwards, the sockets d, d, riding
in grooves, cut in the pulley stile g Figures 1, 2 and 3.
is a stop pin against which the top sash stiles i rest, when thrown over, the lower
bead serving as the abutment for the sash to rest on, the sash being perfectly secure
so that the glass can be cleaned or the sash be repainted or even reglazed from the
inside of the room.
Instead of the stop pin I may cut away the lining as shown at Figure 1 of the
drawing.
The loose portion of the head of the frame is fitted in the sash frame loosely, so
that when the bottom sash is lifted the board rises with it and allows the sash a larger
amount of travel so that when thrown-up permits the top rail of the upper sash m,
when lowered, to be drawn forward under the bottom rail n of the lower sash when
thrown up, as at Figure 2, the board k replacing itself when the lower sash is drawn
down as in Figure 1.
The parting bead is permanently fixed, extending only from the head to the middle
rail and thus allowing the sash to pass underneath.

page_text: The beads are secured by spring catch or drop plate or any other suitable
fastening.
d' is a push pin, spring catch or other fastening to prevent sashes from blowing or
falling down when the beads are open.
The sashes have iron plates, represented at Figures 7 and 8, securely fixed to the
bottom end of sash stiles. The iron plates are drilled and slotted through to admit of
the pivot on the cord holder passing through same, they are also shaped to catch or
lock to brass or iron catches fixed to bottom or other position of rebates in pulley
stiles.
The sashes rest firmly on the pivot of the cord holder sliding up and down with
same and also radiating on the pivots which allows them to fall inwards to a
horizontal position to enable the outside of top and bottom sashes to be cleaned, painted
or glazed.
The sash frames are specially prepared to receive sashes and allow them to open
freely without disturbing any bead or fixed portion of frame and also entirely lifted
out.
I also prefer to use special pulleys in which the pulley wheel is arranged behind
the face plate to allow the cord working in the grooves of the pulley stile to pass
behind said face plate as will be understood by reference to Figure 9.
P
I have described the inner side beads as being hinged for folding but they may be
hinged or pivotted at the bottom to fall outward from the top and if a screen be
fitted as at Figure 6, the lower sash may be thrown into the room to any desired
angle and be retained there by an appliance, such as a screw nut working in a slot of
the screen p, thus the lower sash may be used for ventilating purposes, the screen one
on each side preventing side draught and closing up the aperture.
The sockets may be of other than square shape.
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 Suspending window sashes from their lower ends by pivots of socket pieces,
which sockets as cord carriers ride in grooves formed in the pulley stiles, as and for
the purpose described and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
2 In connection with such hung or suspended window sashes, the folding side
beads cut parting bead and the loosely fitting board k, together with the means by
which the sashes are held in a horizontal position as at Figure 2.
3 The cordholder constructed substantially as bereinbefore described and shown at
Figures 4 and 5 for the purpose set forth.
4 The arrangement for adapting my improved sliding and radiating sashes for
ventilating purposes, substantially as described and shown at Figure 6 of the
drawings.
Dated this 1st dow of Fahrer 1887