Sliding window structure with sash guiding tracks
OwnerMaria Ronay, Gabor Michelsinventors
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Abstract
A sliding double hung window structure allows a window opening to be fully exposed to the external environment in an open position, with casements or windows being stored out of sight, and not in the opening. The window structure includes two casements or sashes balanced by suspended counterweights and guided by pins in guiding grooves in the two vertical sides of a frame of the window structure. In the closed position, the casements are located in the same plane, one on top of the other. When fully opened, a breast cavity under the window opening receives the two casements. The guiding grooves include guiding grooves in the window opening and in the breast cavity.
Claims10
A sliding window structure suitable for fitting in a window opening, the window structure comprising:
- two moveable casements moveable in vertical guiding grooves of a window opening section of the window structure,
- the two moveable casements each being capable of being located entirely in either of a first or a second vertical section in the window opening section;
- a breast section arranged under the window opening section and having a cavity therein,
- a horizontal branching section having a groove arranged parallel to the first vertical section and communicating with one of the vertical guiding grooves at a branching point;
- arched crossing grooves located in a lower portion of the window opening section;
- direction changing turn-outs arranged at crossing points of the arched crossing grooves and at the branching point of the horizontal branching section,
- wherein inner walls of the cavity include casement guiding grooves which may receive the two moveable casements,
- wherein the first vertical section extends along an entire interior vertical extent of both of the window opening section and the breast section, and
- wherein the second vertical section extends along an entire exterior vertical extent of only the window opening section along an exterior side of the window structure;
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- a horizontal connecting section connecting the first and second vertical sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.