Improved Appliances or Fittings for Use in connection with Windows to Facilitate their Cleaning.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 19th May,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances or Fittings for Use in
connection with
Windows to Facilitate their Cleaning.
We, ROBERT HOLLOWS of 7 Maple Street and JAMES SPENCER of 20 Maple
Street, both in Southport in the County of Lancaster, Builder and Smith
respectively, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to provide appliances or fittings to be applied
to or to be used in connection with existing windows or with existing window
frames and sashes so that, when such appliances or fittings are made use of, the
windows can be cleaned in a much more convenient and in a safer manner than
has hitherto been the case.
We provide sets of eyelets, hasps, half-hinges, staples or the like, and in con-
nection therewith connecting pieces or links with preferably one end turned right
round to form a loop and the other end rounded off for a small distance to form
a kind of bolt. One or more of the eyelets or half-hinges are attached to the
window sash, and corresponding pieces are also attached to the window frame.
We then, when a window is to be cleaned, take the aforesaid connecting piece
and pass its bolted end into that eyelet or half-hinge which is on the window sash,
the other end of the connecting piece or link, that is to say the one turned round,
is then, by means of a suitable pin, engaged with or hinged to the eyelet or half-
hinge which is on the window frame. It will be seen by the foregoing means when
the beading or moulding strip retaining the window in position is removed, the
window can easily be swung or turned round to one side and so the servant or
whoever is cleaning the window has no need to go outside but can clean the
entire window from the inside.
Instead of having to undo the beading or moulding strip running by the one
side of the window, whenever the window is to be cleaned, we prefer to cut out in
this beading, or moulding strip, a length corresponding to the height of the one
half of the window and hinge this length so that it is easy to turn it back, when the
window is either raised or lowered, so as to come within the limits of this cut-away
portion of the beading or moulding strip. When our improved appliances or
fittings are made use of, it will be seen that, instead of having the window cords
fixed by means of nails to the window sashes, they should be so fixed that, when
the window is to be cleaned, they can easily be undone to allow of the window
being turned back at whichever side may happen to have the connecting piece or
link aforesaid applied to it. With this object in view we adapt to, or let into, the
sash suitable small hooks, and provide the ends of the cords with loops for taking
onto these hooks so that it is then an easy matter to undo such parts on that side
of the window which may happen to want to be turned back.
While our invention is applicable in connection with all kinds of sliding
windows, we purpose it to be used specially in connection with the window fittings
made in accordance with the British Patent No. 14069 of 1892.
Dated this 29th day of June 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improved Appliances or Fittings for Use in connection with
Windows to Facilitate their Cleaning.
We, ROBERT HOLLOWS of 7, Maple Street and JAMES SPENCER of 20, Maple
Street both in Southport in the County of Lancaster, Builder and Smith
respectively 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 :-
Our invention has for its object to provide appliances or fittings to be applied
to or to be used in connection with existing windows or with existing window
frames and sashes, so that, when such appliances or fittings are made use of, the
windows can be cleaned'in a much more convenient and in a safer mauner than bas
hitherto been the case.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation,
Figure 2, a sectional plan, and
Figures 3 and 4, perspective views of the staples.
In these, A B are the top and bottom sash respectively: C C eyelets or sockets
fixed to the frame: D D eyelets or sockets fixed to the sashes: E F two staples
or links of peculiar shape set forth in Figures 3 and 4, for holding the frames in
open position. These are inserted in the eyelets as set forth in the drawing. G is
a hinge H a screw and I a portion of the beading cut out by means of hinge G.
The beading can be thrown out clear of the window, and by screw H after being
returned can be fixed in place. J is a hook on the sash and K a hook fitting
therein on the sash cord. These hooks ordinarily engage with each other, but can
be detached and the window swung out. These are used when the sash is balanced
on the system described in Patent No. 14069 of 1892 by the other sash; when the
ordinary sash weights are used, however, a very similar device can be used. The
staples or links E F can be used for a series of windows in succession, in
which case they are loose; or they can be chained by a light chain to a pin on
the frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The improved appliances or fittings for use in connection with windows to
facilitate their cleaning, consisting in sockets and staples so formed as to hold
the window sash rigid at a considerable angle with its normal position.
2. The arrangement of side hooks whereby the cord can be detached and attached
as required, at a moment's notice.
3. The arrangement of hinged bead and also the arrangement of both of the
sashes and this bead in such manner that each sash in succession can be swung out
at the same part and cleaned, and then returned, substantially as described.
Dated this 29th day of March 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.