US1259041A - Sash-hanging means. - Google Patents

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L. PETERSEN.

SASH HANGING MEANS.

APPLICATION men 02c. 22. 1916.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

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LAWRENCE PETERSEN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BASH-EANGING MEANS.

Specification of Letters latent. a Patented Mar, 12, 1918,

Application filed December 22, 1916. Serial No. 138,319.

To all whom it may concern .1

Be it known that I, Lawnnnon Pnruasnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Sash-Hanging Means, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for applying and adjusting the length of sash cords of the kind applied where one sash is arranged to serve as counter balancing weight to the other sash of a pair; and the main object is to provide a sash cord fastener and adjuster which may readily be reached at any time for taking up the slack of the cord caused by its wear or by inexact adjustment when the cord is secured to the sash.

In the accompanying drawing,-Figure 1 is an isometric partly sectional view of a. portion of a window frame and a pair of sash hung therein by cords or wire-ropes secured by my improved device. Fig. 2 is a right hand view of the frame 8 in Fig. 8. Fig. 3 is a top view of Fig. 2 with the screws 12 and 20 in place. Fig. 1- is a section on the line aa in Fig. 5 of the movable block 13 only. Fig. 5 is a side view of the device showing how it is secured to the corner of a sash, the latter being shown in vertical section on the line b?) in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a modification of Fig. 4e.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates a window frame in which a pair of sash 2 and 3 are slidably guided by stops 4, 5 and the usual parting strip 6. The arrangement being alike in both sides or uprights of the window frame, a description of one side will answer for both sides, and likewise a description of the cord fastener and adjuster in the corner of one sash will explain the similar device in .both corners of each sash.

Inserted in the upper corner of the sash and secured by screws 7 is a metal frame 8 having an upper and a lower horizontal arm, 9 and 10; countersunk into the underside of the arm 10 is the head 11 of a screw 12 which is threaded in a nut or square block 13 and has its upper end journaled in the arm 9 and provided with a notch 14 for a screw driver to engage. Downward through an aperture 15 in the frame extends the ends of the sash cord 16 and is secured in a hole 17 in the block 13 by a set-screw 18, which may be of the common machine screw type shown in Fig. 6, and have a clearing 19 for its head in the block, or it may have its head provided with a socket 20 for a wrench to engage, said socket is shown in Figs. 4 and 5 as being hexagon, but obviously it may be of other polygon form.

The cord or wire rope 16 thus supporting one sash at each end requires a strong and well secured pulley; to provide this I mount the grooved pulley 21 in a hood 22 having a horizontal flange 23 which is inserted flush with the lower side of the top bar 1 of the window frame by wood screws 24, and the stop 49 may extend partly underneath it. To further secure the hood it is provided with a downward extension 25 having a rib 26 which stands on the top end of the parting strip 6 when the extension proper is fitted into the upright of the frame and secured by screws 27. Said rib 26 has its upper end formed with an incline 28 which braces it to the flange 23.

In mounting the device the hood proper is of course mortised upward into the top of the frame and its flanges secured thereto andits extension to the upright as stated. And in the use of the device whenever the sash cord or cable stretches so as to not bring the top rail of the inner sash in close and proper position to the bottom rail of the outer sash, it is only necessary to apply a screw driver to the upper end of the screw 12 and turn the screw until the block 13 is moved downward sufiiciently to bring the outer sash up to its normal closing position. And if the block 13 should ever reach the lower arm 10 of the metal frame, then the sash should be removed from the window frame and the frame 8 from the sash while the cord is being shortened by moving it downward in the block 13 and secured again by the set screw 18 or 20.

What I claim is:

1. In a sash hanging device the combination with a sash, of a flexible member for supporting the sash. a metal frame inserted and secured in each upper corner of the sash. a block secured to the end of the flexible member and slidably guided in the metal frame, a vertically disposed screw threaded in the block and journaled in the frame and provided at its lower end with a head by which it is retained against up ward movement therein; said screw having its upper end exposed through the top of the sash and provided with means to be engaged in turning the screw, so as to move the block holding the flexible member.

2. In a sash hanging device the combination With a sash, of a flexible member for supporting the sash, a metal frame inserted and secured in each upper corner of the "sash, a block secured to the end of the flexible member and slidably guided in the metal frame, a vertically disposed screw threaded in .the block and jonrnaled in the frame and provided at its lower end with ahead by vvhlch 1t is retained against up- Onpies of thisipatent may be obtained for flve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of P s'tents,

- Ward movement therein; said screw having its upper end exposed through the vtop of the sash and provided With means to be 1 engaged in turning the screw, so as to move the block holding the flexible member, said block having a hole for the flexible member and a set screw projecting through one side of the hole and pressing against the flexible 20'

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