Abstract: A door hinge attachment device for a door having a core of hardboard or like relatively soft material sandwiched between and adhered to a pair of face panels and the resulting assembly. The attachment device includes a pair of gripping jaws embracing the hinged edge of the door and bolted thereto, and a mounting plate integral with one of the gripping jaws and tongue-and-groove jointed to or integral with the other. Fitted flush in a recess in the door edge, the mounting plate has a set of tapped holes to permit one of the leaves of a butt hinge to be screwed thereto through a frame member extending along and embracing the peripheral edges of the door.

Abstract: An exterior window unit is adapted to cover an opening in a building wall. A frame sill has a vertical mounting portion adapted to be mated with and secured to a fixed sill in the building wall. The frame sill has a plurality of rail portions extending along the length of the vertical mounting portion and spaced vertically along the height thereof. A plurality of sashes are mounted within the window frame in parallel closely spaced planes and have at their respective lower edges engaging means with which the rail portions engage for guiding the horizontal movement of the sashes therealong.

Abstract: An adjustable catch assembly or window lock used with closures such as window sashes having meeting stiles has a cam or rotary crescent rotatably mounted on one of the meeting stiles and a cam keeper secured to the other meeting stile. The cam is rotated into engagement with the cam keeper to retain the closures in closed position. The cam keeper has means for adjusting and fixing the relative distance between a hook or keeper detent of the cam keeper and the stile to which the cam keeper is secured in order to compensate for disengagement or misalignment of the keeper detent or hook from a cam surface of the cam secured to the other meeting stile. The fixing means comprises either of a plurality of equally spaced-apart recesses formed transversely in or an elongated projection formed transversely on the cam keeper, and either of a rib or ribs formed longitudinally on or a plurality of equally spaced-apart grooves formed longitudinally in the keeper-carrying meeting stile.

Abstract: DL-leupeptins have been known to be produced by leupeptins-producing organisms and only L-leupeptins have bioactivity. This invention provides the processes for production of L-leupeptins in high yield and for its extraction without racemization.L-leupeptins may be efficiently produced by inoculating a leupeptins-producing strain of Streptomyces into a medium containing nutrient sources and aerobically cultivating under the condition of pH 5.0 to 7.0. Production of L-leupeptins is markedly increased by adding to the medium each 0.5 to 1.25% (wt/vol) of L-leucine, L-arginine (as hydrochloride), and glycine, and is further increased by adding to the medium 0.05 to 0.3% (wt/vol) of at least one of the yeast extract, casein hydrolyzate, and ribonucleic acids, in addition to the above amino acids. Efficient separation of L-leupeptins of acceptable purity from the cultured broth can be effected by use of a nonionic adsorbent resin, wherein the pH is controlled always to be 7.0 or lower.

Abstract: An exterior window unit for covering the outside of an opening in a building wall. The unit has a frame header comprising a vertical mounting plate, a first horizontal plate projecting outwardly from the mounting plate, a second horizontal plate projecting outwardly from the mounting plate and spaced upwardly of the first horizontal plate, and a slanted surface extending downwardly from said second to said first horizontal plate. The second horizontal plate has at its outer end a drip flange projecting downwardly therefrom.

Abstract: An exterior window unit is adapted to cover an opening in a building wall. An adapter sill member has a vertical and a horizontal section adapted to be secured, respectively, to an exterior vertical and a horizontal top surface of a fixed sill in the building wall, the adapter sill member having a first engaging means extending along its lower edge. A frame sill of the unit has a mounting means having a vertical and a horizontal portion adapted to be secured, respectively, to the vertical and horizontal sections of the adapter sill member, the frame sill having a second mounting means having a second engaging means which engages the first engaging means.

Abstract: There is disclosed a ventilator for use with windows, doors, or other building hardware. The ventilator includes an inner plate having air vents and an outer plate spaced apart from the inner plate in the transverse direction of the ventilator and providing an opening displaced from the air vents. Provided between the inner and outer plates are a filter and a partition extending from the inner plate toward the outer plate until it abuts against the filter. The partition is adapted to direct a flow of air from the opening to the air vents at least twice through the filter. The ventilator is prefabricated as a unit and is easily installed within the windows, doors and the like.

Abstract: A paneled door construction comprises a pair of first and second stiles, top and bottom rails connecting the stiles together, a muntin extending vertically between the top and bottom rails, and a pair of block assemblies disposed between the first stile and the muntin, and between the second stile and the muntin, respectively. The block assemblies each include a pair of inner stiles spaced apart horizontally from each other and extending vertically between the top and bottom rails, and alternate blocks and block-parting members sandwiched between the inner stiles. The blocks and block-parting members are attached by screws to the inner stiles by bringing the former into contact with the inner stiles, and then threading said screws into the blocks and the block-parting members through the inner stiles.

Abstract: For connection of a series of balusters to a top rail, each baluster is provided with a pair of jaws extending upwardly from its top end. The top rail has an integral retainer ridge formed lengthwise on its bottom surface. The retainer ridge includes a pair of shoulders having transversely registered pairs of recesses at prescribed longitudinal spacings. A pair of grooves are formed lengthwise in the respective lateral surfaces of the retainer ridge, and another pair of grooves are formed lengthwise in the bottom surface of the top rail on both sides of the retainer ridge. The jaws of each baluster are inserted into the respective grooves in the bottom surface of the top rail via the respective recesses, and the mid-portions of the jaws are then caused to project into the respective grooves in the lateral surfaces of the retainer ridge by pressing operation. The balusters can likewise be connected to a bottom rail.

Abstract: An exterior window unit for covering an opening in a building wall includes a frame sill which is slidable coupled with an elongated attachment plate member to be secured to a top surface of the fixed sill of a normally present window assembly in the building wall. To effect such coupling, the frame sill has a mounting fin having engaging means with a groove formed longitudinally therethrough. The attachment plate member has an engaging member which is complementary in cross-section to and received in the groove in the engaging means. The attachment plate member is thus positionable longitudinally relative to the mounting fin so as to be able to be interposed snugly between the side jambs of the normally present window assembly.

Abstract: In a shutter construction typically installed on the outside of a window and including one or more panel assemblies mounted within an outer frame for horizontal sliding movement into and out of a shutter box, each of the panel assemblies is composed of a supporting frame and a series of aligned elementary panels closely fitted in the supporting frame. The supporting frame consists of top and bottom rails and a pair of stiles, and the stiles are formed wth a tongue and a pair of clamping jaws, respectively, projecting toward each other. Each elementary panel also has a tongue and a pair of clamping jaws along its respective lateral edges which are exactly identical with the tongue and jaws of the stiles. The elementary panels are connected to each other and to the stiles solely by the clamping engagement of the tongues by the respective pairs of jaws.

Abstract: In a sash window or like panel assembly wherein each sash is rollable horizontally over a rail on the sill of a generally rectangular supporting frame, each roller of the sash is rotatably supported by an inverted-U-shaped roller support which is fixedly mounted in a selected position in a downwardly opening channel formed in the bottom horizontal member of the sash. The roller support has, typically, a pair of resilient hooks fashioned by inwardly folding the bottom ends of its opposed side portions, which hooks are engageable with respective overhangs formed on both sides of the rail throughout its full length.