US35523A - Improvement in sash-fasteners - Google Patents

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- I UNITEDv STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE JONES, OF PEEKSKILL, New YORK.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,523. dated June l0, 1862.

T0 all whom it nmycozwern:

Be it known that I, GEORGEJONEs, `of

Peekskill,` inthe Stateof New York, have i11- vented a new and useful machine entitled an Improved Vindow-Sash Fastener, the object Of which is to secure window-sash within so as to preventtheir being opened from without, and to draw them tight l so as to prevent their rattling, 815e.; and I do hereby declare that the following is aclear, full, and exact description of the construction and Operation Of the same, reference being/had to the annexed drawing, making `a. part of this specification.

In the annexed drawing, A. represents the upper sash, to which one piece of my fastener, p a, 1s screwed; and B represents the lower sash,

r tO which the other piece, I), is screwed.

`l represents an inclinedplane at an angle Of forty-live degrees, or thereabout, and hh hare notches cut thereinand running horizontally across it and parallel to eachother.

c represents the yoke or clasp moving on a hinge, 1J, and acting on the inclined plane l, anld catching into and rest-ing in the notches h th.

' The figure in red .ink represents the yoke thrown back, leaving the sashifree from its action. c represents the same as it acts on the inclined plane `and fastens the sashes together.

" Wheneverthe yokeo is pressed down the inclined plane Z, it catches Or fastens itself into the lowest notch it can reach, and thus firmly yokes the upper and lower sash together and prevents the sash from being moved or the window Opened.` If the sashes do not lt closely together, and aspace intervenes from shrink- `ing or warping of the wood,thus admitting` dust and air into the room and causing the sashes to clatter and `iar against each other in windy weather, the yoke can be vpressed down the inclined plane, so as todraw the'sashes together in perfect contact, thus closing the aperture and effectually preventing al1 rattling or jarring. lf the sash should sag and be drawn by warping of the wood, settling of the house, or other cause from its original position, this does not mar in the least the action of my fastener, thus showing its superiority Iover al1 other windowfasteners, the parts of which can only act from one sash on the other in a plane or level, and which, as soon as this level is impaired, become unable to'act and useless.

The notches 7L 7L h may be increased to any fast-ener and securing the effects above described. a

GEO. JONES.

Witnesses:

EDW. J. WILSON, WAsHN. R. NICHOLS.

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