US2508199A - Combination vent arm and handle for storm sashes - Google Patents

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May 16, 1950 E. E. SWA-RTSWELTER, JR 2,508,199

COMBINATION VENT ARM AND HANDLE FOR STORM SASHES Filed March 25, 1948 7 frame.

Patented May 16, 1950 COMBINATION VENT ARM AND HANDLE FOR STORM SASHES Ernest E. Swartswelter, Jr., Youngstown, Ohio, asslgnor to Ace Storm Window Company, Youngstown, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application March 23, 1948, Serial No. 16,577

' 3 Claims. 1

This invention relates to storm sash in general and in particular to means for supporting one of a pair of double hung storm sash in partly open position for ventilating purposes.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a combination vent arm and handle for storm sash.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means for forming a simple inexpensive and attractive handle on a storm sash.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a combination vent arm and handle for a storm sash operable to retain a screen sash adjacent thereto.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of means readily aflixed to a storm sash for supporting the storm sash in elevated relation in a frame therefor by engaging the frame at a point immediately below the said sash.

The combination vent arm and handle shown and described herein comprises an accessory for a storm window construction including a frame and having a pair of glazed sash positioned therein in double hung relation in that the combination vent arm and handle provides both means for lifting the sash and means by which the sash may be maintained in elevated relation to the said frame. Additionally, when the pair of glazed sash are in elevated position in the upper portion of the storm window frame and a screen sash positioned beneath the same, the combination vent arm and handle acts as a keeper in retaining the said screen sash in the With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a storm window frame and sash showing the combination vent arm and handle installed thereon.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section taken on line 2--2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a plan view of a portion of a storm window frame and a pair of sash showing a modified form of the vent arm installed thereon.

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the vent arm shown in Figure 3. t

Figure 5 is a front plan view of the vent arm shown in Figure 4.

By referring to the drawings and Figures 1 and 2 in particular it will be seen that a portion of a storm window frame l0 has been illustrated and includes a vertical channel ll formed in an edge thereof for slidably receiving a glazed sash l2. The frame of the glazed sash I2 is indicated by the numeral l3 and has oppositely disposed channels formed in its edges. The outermost channel is indicated by the numeral l4 and the ilhnermost channel is indicated by the numeral 5. is disposed in the innermost channel l5 and retained therein by means known in the art. A combination vent arm and handle [6 is disposed in the outermost channel [4 and pivotally secured to the frame [3 of the glazed sash [2, as

, best shown in Figure 2, by indenting oppositely disposed sections l1 and I8 of the frame l3. The indented sections l1 and is register with depressions l9 and 20 formed in one end of the combination vent arm and handle IE, it being observed that the middle section of the combination vent arm and handle is provided with grounded upper and lower edges 2| and that it is offset with respect to end portions 22 and 23.

By referring to Figure 2 of the drawings it will be seen that the ofiset portion of the combination vent arm and handle l6 lies on a plane different from that of the end portions 22 and 23 thereof as the same are disposed within the channel [4 in the frame l3 when the handle is in normal position, as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings. 7

By referring to Figure 1 of the drawings it will be seen that the frame I3 is notched as at 24 and 25 to permit the combination vent arm and handle to assume its normal horizontal position with respect thereto as, for example, when the handle is used in manually raising the glazed sash I2. When the glazed sash I2 is to be positioned in elevated relation in the storm window frame II], the combination vent arm and handle is pivoted on the indentations I! and I8, as shown by the arrow in Figure 1, and swung about until the end 23 thereof engages the vertical channel II in the edge of the storm window frame ID.

The over-all length of the combination vent arm and handle is such that the end 23 will engage the channel I l with the longitudinal axis of the combination vent and handle lying at approximately 13 degrees from horizontal where The glazing material of the glazed sash l2 it will obviously wedge against the channel H and thereby hold the glazed sash 12 in elevated relation. The holding action is obtained by the rather flat angle from horizontal at which the combination vent arm and handle is disposed as it wedges into the channel I! and tends to shift the glazed sash 12 to the right, as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings.

In order to release the sash so that it can be lowered, it is necessary to first raise the same slightly and then swing :the combination vent arm and handle back into the position shown in solid lines in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings. It Will be obvious to those skilled in the art that the same vent arm action can .be obtained for holding the sash in elevated position without the handle portion thereof by providing arelatively straight bar such as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 and indicated by the numeral 26, the same being pivotally affixed to a sash 27 which 'is slidably disposed in a storm window frame 28. The pivotal engagement betweenthe vent arm 26 and the sash 2'! is indicated by the numeral 29 and a notch 39 is providedin the sash 2'i so that a projection 3| on the vent arm 26 may bemanually engaged so as to move the same. 7

'In l igure 3 of the drawings a screen-sash '32 -is illustrated in position immediately beneath the sash 27 and it will be'observed th'at the vent arm 26 is positioned at a flat angle "from horizontal so that the 'free'endthereofen'gages a channel formed in the 'upper edge of the'screen sash 32. This acts as a lock'injretai ning the screen sash in position beneath theis'ash '21 and in preventing it from falling out of the frame 28- or being removed therefrom. At' 'such time-as the screen sash is not imposition, the vent arm "'may be swung about in the manner'shown in "Figure 1 of the drawings and used to hold the sash 27 in elevated relation in the frame 28. In

orderthat the vent arm 2% may be retained in the channel in the sash 27' in which it is disposed, a portion thereof is offset as indicatedby the numeral 33 so that frictional engagement is had between the remainder of the device and the sash 21.

It willthus be seen that a simple combination vent arm and handle has been disclosed which may be inexpensively formed andassembled in for locking a screen sash in position in a storm 5 window frame.

It will thus be seen that the several objects of ,said .channe-lwith the offset portion lying outside said sash and forming a handle therefor, said arm being pivoted at one end to the said sash and the free end of the said arm being engageable with the said frame to hold the said sash in elevated relation with respect thereto.

.2, In a storm window frame and sash; a support arm for the said sash, said support arm having an ofiset portion forming a handle for said sash, said sash having a channel formed in the bottom edge thereof, one end of the said support arm disposed in said channel and pivotally affixed to the saidsash, the free end of the said support arm being engageable' with. the said frame hold the said sash in elevated relation thereto, and notches formed in the. said sash for registry with the said support arm so that the free .end

said handle.

3. In a storm sash having a frame including an inverted channel, a combination handle and support arm for said sash, the said handle and support arm comprising a member having ofiset end sections, one of the end sections being pivotally afiixed in the said inverted channel in the frame of the sash and the free end section of the member positioned for registry with the said channel in the frame, the: intermediate section of said member being positioned in spaced relation to said frameand .forminga handle movable in an are based on the said pivotal connection between the said member and the said frame so as to form a support for said sash.

ERNEST E. SWARTSWELTER, JR.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,316,379 Monroe Sept. 16, 1919 1,601,049 Thorne Sept. 28, 1926 2,107,774 Axe Feb. 8, 1938 2,335,421 Kent Nov. 30, 1943

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