US784840A - Numbering device for storm-sash or screens. - Google Patents

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No. 784,840. PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905.

E. A. CROSBY. NUMBERING DEVICE FOR STORM SASH 0B. SURBENS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20. 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD A. CROSBY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

NUMBERING DEVICE FOR STOPM-SASH OR SCREENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,840, dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed Julie 20,1904. Serial No. 213,268.

To rtZZ whom it Duty concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. CROSBY, of Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Numbering Devices for Storm-Sash or Screens, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for numberingstorm-sash and screens, so as to be able to determine instantly the window to which any storm-sash or screen belongs.

Ordinarily houses situated in cold climates are provided with extra sash or storm-windows, which are put on over the usual windows in the fall of the year and removed in the spring. Such houses are also provided with screens for the windows. These screens are usually put in place in the spring and removed in the fall. Unless the screens and the storm-sash are properly marked considerable difficulty is experienced in selecting the screens or sash belonging to the particular windows. Moreover, if ordinary numbering devices are applied these must be removed when the house is repainted or the numbers will be obliterated by the paint.

It is the object of my invention to'remove all of these objections and provide a numbering device that will not become covered up when the house is painted.

The invention consists generally in the constructions and combinations hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a numbering device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing a plate provided with a single figure. Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing a plate provided with two figures.

In the drawings, 2 represents a suitable plate, preferably formed of thin sheet metal.

3 represents a raised portion of the plate, in the surface of which is a figure that is cut through the plate.

I prefer to provide a plate 2, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, having two series of raised portions and two series of figures out therein, the figures running from 1 to O, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. In using the device one of these plates will be tacked upon the window-casing at the side of the window, one upon the storm-sash, where stormsash are used, and one upon the screen. Each plate will have one or more of its raised portions pounded down or even with the surface of the plate, and the figures upon the raised portions thus pounded down will indicate the number of the particular window to which the device is applied. For instance, suppose that the raised portion bearing the figures 2 in the tens-column and 5 in the units-column are pounded down so as to be level with the surface of the plate. Then suppose that this plate be tacked onto a window-frame. The device will then indicate that the number of the window-frame is and that a stormsash or screen similarly marked is to be applied tothis window-frame. A similar plate is placed upon the storm-sash and a similar plate upon the window-screen. The raised portions carrying the figures 2 and 5 are depressed, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, either before or after the plate is attached, and by this means the window-frame, the storm-sash, and screen will all be similarly marked for thesame window, and if all of the window-frames, storm-sash, and screens belonging to the house are numbered in this manner then it will be a very easy matter to determine at a glance where any sash or screen belongs. In this way with a single plate windows or doors may be numbered from one to ninety-nine, as desired, and if it were found necessary a third column of figures could be provided representing the hundreds-column, and the plates could then be used to designate windows or doors from one to nine hundred and ninety-nine.

As the figures are cut through the plate and as these figures are located in the raised portions of the plates, it is impossible to obliterate the figures in painting the house or in painting the screens or sash. The plate may be painted over any number of times, and any paint that comes. on the figures Wlll pass through them and be held in the space behind the raised portion of the plate. The figures which are depressed and practically obliterated will indicate the number of the screen or sash upon which the plate is applied, and it will be impossible to make any mistake as to the number of this screen or sash, owing to the fact that the numbers, which are not depressed, cannot be obliterated. It is, of course, practicable to depress all of the figures except one in each row, and in that instance the figures not obliterated will indicate the number of the screen or sash. I have found it easier, however, to depress the figures indicating the number of the screen or sash, and when this is done it is just as easy to determine the number of the screen or sash by noting what figures have been depressed or obliterated.

Instead of using a single plate having a number of figures thereon I may use plates having one or more figures, as shown in Figs. 4

and 5 of the drawings. In this instance duplicate plates will be used and the raised portions will not be depressed. The raised portions may be circular in outline, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4, or may be oblong, as indicated in Fig. 5, or may be of any other shape. These raised portions may be convex, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or they may be of other suitable form.

I. claim as my invention 1. A numbering device, comprising a plate adapted to be secured to a window sash or door and having a portion of its surface raised above the plane of the remaining portion, and provided with a character cut or formed therein and communicating with the space in the rear of said raised portion to allow paint and other foreign matter to pass through and prevent the concealment or obliteration of said character.

2. A numbering device, comprising a plate having a series of raised areas thereon formed by pressing up portions of the plate above the plane of the remaining portion, each raised area bearing a character formed in the plate and extending therethrough and communicating with the space in the rear of said area, and said raised area being'of comparatively thin material and adapted to be crushed or pressed down upon the plate, substantially as described.

3. A numbering device,'comprising a plate adapted to be secured to a window-sash or door and having rows of raised areas thereon above the plane of the remaining portion of the plate, said areas having rows of numbers running from one to zero cut through the plate and communicating with the space in the rear of said raised areas, and said areas being adapted to be crushed or pressed with the numbers therein down upon said plate, for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day of June, 1904.

EDl VARD A. CROSBY.

In presence of- G. G. HANSON, A. (1. PAUL.

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