Improvements in and connected with Balanced Drop Lights for Railway Vehicles and like purposes

摘要

24,930. Chevalier, H. April 28, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Windows; draught - excluders; window holders.- Sliding sashes for railway carriages &c. are supported on projections c of sliding pieces e secured on the ends of a bar a, balanced preferably by a spring - actuated lever 4 having a wheel 3 which bears against the underside of the bar a. When the window is raised, a hinged rail 16 is pressed by springs 17 under the lower rail of the sash 1. The window is lowered by withdrawing the rail 16 by means of the handle 19, and is held in any open position by spring pads 24 on the rail 16, which is so shaped that any moisture running down the outside of the sash, when closed, is thrown off on to the weather strip r.