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Chelsea Industries, Inc.

Robert C Durham, Jr

Ruth Ann Durham

A glazing system for a sliding glass door includes an existing glass pane and an existing door frame having an existing door frame upper surface and having a glass receiving channel recessed into the existing door frame upper surface, the system including a reinforced glass pane having a pane inner face for orienting toward the interior of a building and a pane outer face for orienting toward the outside of a building and having a transparent, shatter-proof film secured onto the pane inner face with a film securing mechanism, and a mounting structure having a mounting member with a member anchoring portion for securing into the channel with an anchoring portion securing mechanism and a pane mounting flange having a flange inner face for directing toward the interior of a building and a flange outer face for directing toward the outside of a building, the film being secured to the flange outer face with a pane securing structure. The mounting member preferably includes a base plate portion for resting on the existing door frame upper surface, and an anchor lip portion extending downwardly from the abutment plate portion for inserting into the channel. The system is also suited to fitting and retrofitting ventilating windows and fixed glass windows.

Glazing system

This peripheral member is for use in a frame holding one or more window panes and in a framework for attachment along the inside of a window opening in a building structure. It has a hollow rectangular main body and a narrower rectangular extension. The main body and the extension form a right-angled inside corner where their adjoining sides present intersecting longitudinal recesses. These sides of the main body and the extension have longitudinal grooves located away from the inside corner. The remaining faces of the main body and the extension are flat, including a face on the extension that is a co-planar continuation of a corresponding face on the main body.

Window construction

This is a window assembly with one sliding window, one fixed window and a rectangular framework made up of extruded framework members with the same cross-sectional profile except for small segments that are removed in the framework members along which the sliding windows slide. Three of these framework members support the fixed window pane along three edges. The sliding window has extruded peripheral members along its edges which have the same cross-sectional profile as one another except where small segments are removed in two of them to slidably interfit with the two framework members along which the sliding window slides. An additional peripheral member of this cross-section is part of the framework and supports the fixed window along its remaining edge. Springs inside the two framework members along which the sliding windows slide urge the sliding window to an open position.

One-piece member with a cam-shaped periphery serves as both a slide and a tilt-lock for a window sash which is slidable vertically in a window frame and is tiltable with respect to the window frame. A thin, flat, elongated spring leaf has its lower end attached to the combined slide and tilt-lock member and has a spirally wound upper end fastened to the window frame. The window frame conceals and protects the unwound length of this spring.

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Ft. Lauderdale, FL, United States of America

Robert C Durham, Jr