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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan S Jakus, Hemlock, NY (US);
Robert M Lucci, Rochester, NY (US);
William P Newton, Spencerport, NY (US);
Assignee:
Caldwell Manufacturing Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
49181 ; 49176 ; 49445 ; 16197 ;
Abstract
A tilt sash counterbalance system has a carrier shoe with a locking cam that moves a locking component to a corner-to-corner locking position within a shoe channel. This is done by moving the locking component to a locked position where the locking component simultaneously increases both the width and the thickness of the carrier shoe. This presses the locking component into one inside corner of the shoe channel while pressing an opposite edge of the carrier shoe in a diagonally opposite direction against a diagonally opposite inside corner of the shoe channel.