Patent ID: 8915032

Claim:
A window construction, comprising: a header structure that engages a top edge of at least two window panes disposed in lateral, edge-abutting relation to one another, said header structure adapted for mounting to a horizontally disposed, upper perimeter frame; a footer structure that engages a bottom edge of said at least two window panes, said footer structure adapted for mounting to a horizontally disposed, lower perimeter frame; a first jamb structure that engages an outboard end of a first window pane of said two window panes, said first jamb structure adapted for mounting to a vertically disposed, first side perimeter frame; a second jamb structure that engages an outboard end of a second window pane of said two window panes, said second jamb structure adapted for mounting to a vertically disposed, second side perimeter frame; said header structure including a horizontally-disposed, downwardly-opening U-shaped channel having a lateral extent substantially equal to a combined lateral extent of said at least two window panes; said footer structure including a horizontally-disposed, upwardly-opening U-shaped channel having a lateral extent substantially equal to the lateral extent of said two window panes; said first jamb structure including a first vertically-disposed U-shaped channel that extends from said downwardly-opening U-shaped channel to said upwardly-opening U-shaped channel at an outboard end of said first window pane; said second jamb structure including a second vertically disposed U-shaped channel that extends from said downwardly-opening U-shaped channel to said upwardly-opening U-shaped channel at an outboard end of said second window pane; said respective U-shaped channels of said first and second jamb structures opening towards one another; a strip of silicone disposed between contiguous vertical free edges of said at least two laterally disposed, edge-abutting window panes; said single frame holding at least two laterally disposed, edge abutting window panes; each of said window panes formed of three laminations; said three laminations including an exterior pane having a thickness of about a quarter inch (¼″), a middle pane having a thickness of about three-eighths of an inch (⅜″), and an interior pane having a thickness of about three-eighths of an inch (⅜″); there being no frame where said two laterally disposed, edge-abutting window panes abut one another.