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US 4,054,268 AGranted
Glass panel railing
OwnerEmil Z. Sherinventor
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Abstract
A glass panel railing for mounting alongside a stairway and other building surfaces such as a walkway, etc., wherein a plurality of glass panels, carrying a continuous handrail along their upper edges, are adjustably, vertically mounted relative to the building structure.
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A railing for mounting to a building structure relative to an open stairway, hallway or the like comprising,
- a plruality of aligned glass panels, each of a predetermined length and height;
- a continuous handrail fixed along the top lengths of said glass panels;
- mounting means, fixed to the building structure, including means to supportingly engage the bottom lengths of said glass panels;
- means to engage along lower end, first face portions of said glass panels,
- means to adjust said means to engage to bring the plurality of glass panels into said alignment;
- means to exert pressure along lower end, second face portions of said glass panels, in an opposed relation to said means to engage, to maintain said panels in alignment;
- said mounting means comprising an elongated, generally tubular member provided with a slot of a predetermined width, through a top wall thereof, opening into an interior chamber, defined in said tubular member;
- said means to supportingly engage comprising a bottom wall of said tubular member;
- a pad, fixed relative to said bottom wall, between said bottom lengths and bottom wall;
- said glass panels extend loosely through said slot into engagement with said pad, and said means to engage along lower end, first face portions comprises adjustment plate means in said interior chamber;
- said adjustment plate means, along a first edge, is pivotally engaged with said tubular member within said interior chamber.
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A railing for mounting to a building structure relative to an open stairway, hallway or the like comprising,
- a plurality of aligned glass panels, each of a predetermined length and height;
- a continuous handrail fixed along the top lengths of said glass panels;
- mounting means, fixed to the building structure, including means to supportingly engage the bottom lengths of said glass panels;
- means to engage along lower end, first face portions of said glass panels;
- means to adjust said means to engage to bring the plurality of glass panels into said alignment;
- means to exert pressure along lower end, second face portions of said glass panels, in an opposed relation to said means to engage, to maintain said panels in alignment,
- said mounting means comprising an elongated, generally tubular member provided with a slot of a predetermined width, through a top wall thereof, opening into an interior chamber, defined in said tubular member;
- said tubular member including a pair of opposed, outwardly extending bottom flanges, each of which is provided with a plurality of spaced apart holes for the reception therethrough of outer end portions of anchor bolts having inner end portions embedded in a transversely, horizontally extending portion of the building structure, and lock means being provided on said outer end portions;
- said railing including pads interposed between said adjustment plate means and pressure plate means, and the respective lower, side face portions of said glass panels.
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A railing for mounting to a building structure relative to an open stairway, hallway or the like comprising,
- a plurality of aligned glass panels, each of a predetermined length and height;
- a continuous handrail fixed along the top lengths of said glass panels;
- mounting means, fixed to the building structure, including means to supportingly engage the bottom lengths of said glass panels;
- means to engage along lower end, first face portions of said glass panels;
- means to adjust said means to engage to bring the plurality of glass panels into said alignment;
- means to exert pressure along lower end, second face portions of said glass panels, in an opposed relation to said means to engage, to maintain said panels in alignment;
- said mounting means comprising an elongated, generally tubular member provided with a slot of a predetermined width, through a top wall thereof, opening into an interior chamber, defined in said tubular member;
- said tubular member including a downwardly extending flange formed integral with an inside wall thereof, said inside wall and flange being provided with pluralities of spaced apart holes for the reception therethrough of outer end portions of anchor bolts having inner end portions embedded in a vertical wall portion of a building structure, lock means being provided on said outer end portions.
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A railing for mounting to a building structure relative to an open stairway, hallway or the like comprising,
- a plurality of aligned glass panels, each of a predetermined length and height;
- a continuous handrail fixed along the top lengths of said glass panels;
- mounting means, fixed to the building structure, including means to supportingly engage the bottom lengths of said glass panels,
- means to engage along lower end, first face portions of said glass panels;
- means to adjust said means to engage to bring the plurality of glass panels into said alignment;
- means to exert pressure along lower end, second face portions of said glass panels, in an opposed relation to said means to engage, to maintain said panels in alignment;
- said mounting means comprising an elongated, generally tubular member provided with a slot of a predetermined width, through a top wall thereof, opening into an interior chamber, defined in said tubular member,
- said means to supportingly engage comprising a bottom wall of said tubular member;
- a pad, fixed relative to said bottom wall, between said bottom lengths and bottom wall;
- said glass panels extend loosely through said slot into engagement with said pad, and said means to engage along lower end, first face portions comprises adjustment plate means in said interior chamber;
- said railing including a pair of O-formed seal members disposed in said slot on opposed sides of said glass panels and fixed in respective edge portions defined by said slot.
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A railing for mounting to a building structure relative to an open stairway, hallway or the like comprising,
- a plurality of aligned glass panels, each of a predetermined length and height;
- a continuous handrail fixed along the top lengths of said glass panels;
- mounting means, fixed to the building structure, including means to supportingly engage the bottom lengths of said glass panels;
- means to engage along lower end, first face portions of said glass panels;
- means to adjust said means to engage to bring the plurality of glass panels innto said alignment;
- menas to exert pressure along lower end, second face portions of said glass panels, in an opposed relation to said means to engage, to maintain said panels in alignment;
- said mounting means comprising an elongated member having an enlarged upper portion providing an outwardly opening cavity, downwardly extending integral flange portion and an outwardly extending ledge from said flange portion comprising said means to supportingly engage;
- including upper and lower pluralities of spaced apart anchor bolts including inner end portions embedded in a vertical wall portion of a building structure, and outer end portions extending through respective pluralities of holes in said enlarged upper portion and flange portion, lock nuts being engaged on the outer end portions of said upper plurality, and a pair of adjustment nuts being engaged on each of said lower plurality in respective engagement against inner and outer faces of said flange portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.