Abstract: A vehicular rear slider window assembly includes a fixed window panel having an inner side and an outer side, an upper rail and a lower rail attached at the inner side, and a movable window panel having a lower perimeter edge received in a channel of the lower rail and an upper perimeter edge received in a channel of the upper rail. The lower rail includes a first attaching surface that attaches at the inner side and a second attaching surface opposite the first attaching surface. A retaining element is attached along the lower rail and at the second attaching surface. The retaining element includes an attaching portion that attaches at the second attaching surface and a retaining portion that extends at least partially across the channel of the lower rail to limit vertical movement of the movable window panel relative to the upper and lower rails.

Abstract: A magnetically attachable window screen for attachment to a window frame. The window screen includes a plurality of screen frame members. Each frame member includes a first end and a second end wherein the first and second ends are operable to receive a flange member. The window screen also includes a screen corner key with a central magnetic member and two orthogonally opposed flanges extending outwardly in a single plane from the central magnetic member. The flange members of the screen corner key are inserted into the first and second ends of orthogonally opposed adjacent screen frame members to form a fully assembled screen frame. The window screen also includes a plurality of corner key mates inserted into each corner of the screen channel of the window frame. The central magnetic member of the inserted corner key is operable for magnetic attraction to respective corner key mates.

Abstract: A window balance assembly may include a carrier, a spring element, and a mounting bracket. The spring element may include first and second portions. The first portion may be coupled to the carrier. The mounting bracket may engage the second portion of the spring element and may selectively engage the carrier. The mounting bracket may include a first mounting surface disposed at a non-perpendicular angle relative to an exterior surface of carrier when the window balance assembly is in an uninstalled configuration. The first mounting surface may be substantially parallel to the exterior surface of the carrier when the window balance assembly is in an installed configuration and the mounting bracket is disengaged from the carrier.

Abstract: A pane unit for windows on motor vehicles including a first pane with a frame which has a profile and surrounds the margin of the pane on at least two sides. The frame engages on at least two sides of the pane or annularly surrounds the pane so as to be closed on itself, and the frame is formed from two profile parts with a primary part and with a secondary part. The primary part is formed as a hard component having a dimensional stability greater than that of the secondary part formed as a soft component. The primary part is formed along one longitudinal side of the first pane as a guide web for a second pane movable up and down therein, which guide web is arranged to point towards the first pane and engage thereon and has, on the opposite side, a window guide for the second pane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pane unit for windows on motor vehicles and the like, with a first pane (12), with a frame (11) which has a multi-part frame profile with at least one secondary part (54) as a soft component and engages on a margin of the pane (12) on at least two sides of the pane (12), the frame (11) surrounding at least two end faces (13) of the pane (12) or annularly surrounding the pane (12) so as to be closed on itself, and with a guide web (15) for guiding a second pane (14) which is movable up and down and is arranged towards the first pane (12), wherein a reception region (38) for a panel element (17) is provided on the frame (11) so as to point towards the outside (32) of a body.

Abstract: An accessory for profiles used for making frames for sliding windows or doors comprising, amongst other things, a fixed frame formed by two crosspieces and two stiles; the profile forming the first lower crosspiece comprises two sliding tracks, parallel with one another, presented by a lower base body, and heat insulation elements; this profile having an element for connecting and joining two halves of the profile, transversally separate relative to the length of the tracks and together forming the whole of the lower crosspiece; this connecting and joining element also has heat insulation properties.

Abstract: A sliding window assembly includes two rectangular sash frames each enclosing an insulated glass panel unit and supported by a surrounding main support frame. At least one of the sash frames is supported for horizontal movement, and horizontally extending interlocking members are formed on the adjacent upper and lower horizontal frame members of the sash frame and main support frame. The interlocking members have interfitting horizontal hook portions positioned to permit each movable sash frame to move freely between a closed position and an open position. The interfitting hook portions are effective to engage and interlock each other in response to a substantial positive or negative windload or such a windload after an impact which breaks the glass panel unit, to limit deflection and prevent permanent deformation or release of the sash frame.

Abstract: A window jamb component assembly mountable in the jambs of a double hung window for cooperative engagement with the sash assemblies thereof. The component assembly includes a longitudinally elongated jamb liner having upper and lower segments comprising a pair of channel guides spaced apart by a profiled web. The profiled web defines sequentially aligned recesses, namely an inner weather stripping recess, a jamb filler recess and an outer weather stripping recess. A jamb filler, held by the jamb filler recess, provides a uniformly clad surface for the jambs to match the appearance of the trim of the double hung window. Frame weather stripping for sealingly engaging the sash assemblies of the double hung window is deployed and held in the inner and outer weather stripping recesses. Such assembly provides a visually pleasing finish for the window jambs, while providing improved cooperation between the window jamb and the sash assemblies.

Abstract: A material used to fabricate sashes used by window assemblies. The material comprises a foam core covered by a cladding material. The foam core acts as a filler and provides insulation, while the cladding material protects the foam core from the environment and physical abuse. Often, a structural assembly or member is provided to stiffen the sash material. The cladding and structural assembly are placed into a mold and resin is injected into the mold between the cladding and the structural assembly. The resin cures to form the foam core. The foam core bonds the cladding and structural assembly together to form the sash material. The sash material is cut with woodworking tools to form a sash for a window assembly. The cladding is configured such that, when the window assembly is installed in a wall, interior vapor barrier material and exterior air barrier material applied to the wall overlap with the cladding material to reduce air flow through the wall around the window assembly.

Abstract: A block and tackle balance system (10), contained within a spring cover (12) extending for the full length of a jamb liner (11), includes a guide (30) that directs a cord (25) through an angled course as it passes from the balance (20), through a hole (13) in the spring cover, to a support that moves up and down with a sash (15) outside the spring cover. The passing of the cord through the angled course in the guide produces load-related friction that helps prevent hop and drop of the sash. Guide (30) also preferably supports an end of the balance within the spring cover, and a support (50, 60) on the free end of cord (25) preferably engages sash (15) automatically as the sash assembled between a pair of jamb liners (11).

Abstract: A sealing device for a slidable window of a vehicle. The window includes a channel member which has a plurality of grooves in which a slidable glass member and a fixed glass member are held individually. The sealing device comprises a weather strip for sealing the slidable window glass being disposed in the groove of the channel member for holding the fixed window glass.

Abstract: A sliding window having two or more removable sashes each having a sash frame supporting a sealed doubled glazing unit, the sash frame having a sash head and a sash sill made from a thermally insulating plastic material extrusion presenting a hollow structure with two spaced apart guiding legs adapted to engage into and slide along corresponding head track and sill track members. The head track and sill track members provide a pair of guide grooves for the slidable sash and a pair of guide grooves of the same spacing for the fixed sash. A runner or a plurality of runners of appropriate anti-friction material may be disposed between the guiding legs of the sash sill and they bear upon a horizontal bearing surface provided on the sill track between the guide grooves of the corresponding pair thereof. The runners prevent contact between the guiding legs of the sash sill and the bottom of the guide grooves of the sill track.

Abstract: The specification discloses an improved jamb liner and novel friction shoe balance arrangement for a cottage-style window enabling the friction shoe balance, or positioner, concept to be utilized with window sash having a plow of nonrectangular cross section, and in "non take-out" type double hung or vertical slidable windows. The jamb liner includes a body securable to the jamb and a channel in which the friction shoe rides extending into the sash plow. The channel comprises a pair of sidewalls projecting outwardly from the jamb liner body into the plow, each sidewall including end portions shaped to generally conform to the nonrectangular portion of the plow, and disposed along and adjacent the latter. A pair of shoe abutment walls extend inwardly toward one another from the opposite channel sidewalls, and provide generally coplanar surfaces against which the friction shoe bears.

Abstract: A guide device for sliding windows of motor vehicles includes a channel-shaped weather strip fixed to the body of the motor vehicle along one side of the window and provided with a rigid core and a pair of converging lips which cooperate with the opposite surface of the glass. A runner is fixed to the edge of glass and cooperates slidingly with the rigid core of the weather strip. The rigid core is at least partially embedded in the body of the weather strip and has first and second limbs extending respectively in correspondence with the base wall of the weather strip and that side wall of the weather strip facing inwardly of the motor vehicle. The second limb also has a bent appendage the end of which lies approximately in the median longitudinal plane of the weather strip. The zone of convergence of the lips of the weather strip lies in an intermediate plane between the longitudinal median plane and the side wall of the weather strip facing outwardly of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: There is shown a frame in a truck cab which has an elongated lower straight portion, an elongated shorter upper portion that is curved or bowed upwards, and side portions extending between the ends of such lower and upper portions, and sashes movable along the lower portion. Fixed panes are positioned in the end portions of the frame, and the sashes are slidable so their upper ends move apart a significant distance before engaging the upper frame portion, and such distance is sufficient that in their closed positions the sashes have greater headroom in the upper frame section than the depth to which their lower ends extend into the lower frame section. Such sashes are non-removable via U-shaped or box-like guide elements secured to their lower ends, such elements having spring-like walls with flanges which extend laterally below and in interference relation with shoulder ribs in the frame.