Jim Walter Corporation

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The Celotex Corporation

Edward H Wood

An apparatus for power assisted locking and unlocking of cutting, grinding, or like tools received within the tool holder of a machine such as a vertical milling machine or the like. The described machine includes a spindle and a quill, and the tool is received within a collet held in a taper at the end of the spindle. A drawbar extends through the spindle and holds the collet into the taper locking the tool in the collet opening. The locking and unlocking apparatus includes a drawbar driving motor, a drawbar driving member associated with the motor, and means associated with the drawbar for providing a drive connection between the drawbar and the motor when the drawbar is in a pedetermined position. Means are provided to position the drawbar so that a part thereof engages the motor drive at the same time that a switch is closed so as to energize the motor and cause it to rotate the drawbar in one direction or the other. The motor drive is preferably of the impact type so as to insure application of controlled torque to the drawbar for both locking and unlocking.

Tool changing apparatus

This invention relates to a weather strip and balance assembly for a window of a tilt sash type. The assembly includes a mounting plate for mounting the balance assembly thereon with a weather strip being clipped thereto and supporting the sash in a sliding and sealing manner. The weather strip has a pair of curved supporting ridges which mount the sash at conventional grooved surfaces along the stiles of the same and a recessed divider portion between the curved ridges in the weather strip provides for mounting and movement of the coupling pins which connect the balance assemblies to the sash and permit tilt of the sash on the weather strip. The mounting members on the sash for coupling the pins thereto provide mating keyed surfaces such that the pins rotate with the sash. These mounting members also include guide surfaces which couple the sash in a closed position and include the provision of a sweep lock member to secure the sash in a closed position. An alternate embodiment of the invention discloses a locking assembly in the form of a locking cord cooperating with the mounting pins to lock the balance assemblies upon tilt of the sash.

Weather strip and balance assemblies for windows

This invention relates to an improved weather strip and balance assembly for nonremovable windows in which the weather strip is made of a compressable, high impact material with ridges thereon to mount the sash. The ridges also mount and enclose the balance springs and pulley blocks with the sash cord coupled thereto for counter-balancing the weight of the sash. The sash cord is directed out from behind the weather strip through an opening therein to connect to the sash through an anchor. The length of the sash cord at the connection of the sash is adjustable to adjust the tension of the balance system applied to the sash. The assembly is readily assembled in said jambs of a window frame by securing the same thereto, such as by screws. The assembly is manufactured, shipped and stored without tension thereon to eliminate warpage and displacement of parts.

Weather strip and balance assembly for nonremovable windows

This invention relates to a balance spring lock for tilt out windows in which the balance spring is positioned in the jamb channel and connected through a sash cord to a block member and to the frame. The sash cord is directed over a sheave and either through an aperture in the block or guided along the surface of the block to be clamped against the block or within the block upon rotation of a shaft member therein coupled through a pin to the sash. The clamping action takes place through an eccentric surface on the shaft member through a cam follower operated by the shaft member, or through a pivoted lever attached to the shaft member. All variations of the clamping action operate with rotation of the shaft member caused by tilt of the window.

Balance spring lock for tilt out sash

A side camming balance spring lock adapted to be slidably mounted in a jamb channel of a window frame which incorporates slidably mounted camming members in the side of the same operated through flat and curved surfaces on a shaft to effect the locking action. The shaft includes a notch in which the connecting pin for the sash is positioned to effect rotation of the shaft on tilt out of the sash for the locking function. A removable plug closes an aperture in the lock above the shaft notch in which the balance spring connection is positioned. Removal of the plug permits removal of the sash from the lock as well as the disconnection of the balance spring therefrom.

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Sanford, NC, United States of America

Edward H Wood