US1616205A - Sash-cord guide - Google Patents

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1,616,205 L. R. TALBERT SASH CORD GUIDE Filed Jan. 5. 1926 Patented Feb. 1, i937.

LEE R. 'IALBERT, OF LONG- BEACH, CALIFORNIA.

SASH-COBJD GUIDE.

Application filed January 5, 1926. Serial No. 79,320.

This invention relates to improvements in are transversely bent so as to present upper sash cord guides primarily designed to be concave surfaces on which thesash cords C used in connection with window construcare adapted to rest. These tongues theretions. fore provide a support for the sash cord so An object of this invention is to provide as to support it above the bottom of the tube a sash cord guide of novel construction, 10. On one end of the tube there is prowhich is adapted to be mounted in a window vided a flange 18 which may be welded or frame and support the sash cord where it otherwise secured to the tube. This flange passes through the window frame in connecthas apertures 14 formed in it for the recep- 10 ing the counterweight to the window sash. tion of screws in mounting the device upon 60 Another object of this inventioi'i is to proa window frame. If desired, a strip of vide a sash cord guide of cheap, simple and metal 15 may be fastened to or positioned durable construction which may be used in against the under side of the tube, this strip a window frame and which will replace or extending from the lower portion of one 15 serve the same function provided by the tongue to the lower portion of the other and G5 usual pulley. serving as a reinforcement for the tongues.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in In mounting the improved sash cord guide view which will be made manifest in the folon a window frame, it is merely necessary lowing detailed description and specifically to bore a hole through the frame and insert pointed out in the appended claim, referthe tube 10 in it, afterwards driving screws 79 ence is had to the accompanying drawings through the apertures 14k in the flange 13. for an'illustrative embodiment of the inven- The sash cord can then be threaded through tion, wherein: the tube and positioned on top of the Figure 1 is a partial side elevation. parts tongues 11, and 12, it being retained on top being broken away, illustrating a portion of of these tongues because of the concave sur- 5 a window on which the improved guide has faces which they present.

been mounted, From the above described construction it Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken substanwill be readily appreciated that an improved tially on the line EZ-.2 of Fig. 1, form of sash cord guide is provided which is Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the guide, of cheap, simple yet durable construction, 80

Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken substanand will efficiently guide the sash cord durtially on the line 4 4: of Fig. 3, and ing the raising or lowering of the sash.

Fig. 5 is a view in end elevation of the It will be understood that various changes guide and may be considered as taken in the in the detail of construction may be made direction of the arrow 5 on Fig. 3. without departing from the spirit or scope of Referring to the accompanying drawings the invention as defined by the appended wherein similar reference characters desigclaim. nate similar parts throughout, the window I claim: 7 frame is indicated generally at F. in which A sash cord guide comprising a tube two sash S and S are slidable. Sash cords adapted to be mounted in a window frame C connect their respective sash to counter and through which a sash cord is adapted to weights which are housed within the pass. and tongues formed upon the ends of frame F. The improved sash cord guide the bottom of the tube which are bent up consists of a tube 10 of sufficient length so wardly and inwardly with their ends exthat it can extend completely through the tending toward the interior of the tube, said 955 window frame F. On the ends of the tube tongues presenting concave upper surfaces at the bottom thereof there are provided two on which a sash cord is adapted to rest. tongues 11 and 12. These tongues are bent In testimony whereof I have signed my upwardly and inwardly so that their ends name to this specification. extend toward the interior of the tube and, LEE R- TALBERT-

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