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: An improved technique for providing air tight insulation for a window, particularly a double-hung window, in which there is provided a window panel separating bead for carrying one or more gaskets extending longitudinally of the bead and adapted to be in a folded engaged position for providing an air tight seal between the window panel frame and the bead.
Abstract: A unitary weatherstripping and self-balancing sash guide for slidingly embracing the juxtaposed side edges of a pair of double-hung inner and outer window sash units, and guiding their sliding opening and closing movement in a window opening, comprises an arched portion spanning the side edge of the window opening and having a central parting bead protruding into the window opening, inner and outer terminal flanges protruding from the arched portion into the window opening, and two slanting wing flanges respectively extending cantilever-fashion from the parting bead diagonally toward the arched portion and the respective terminal flanges, forming therewith a pair of channel-shaped grooves each embracing the side edge of one sash unit, whereby each of the two sash units is slidingly gripped in resilient tractive balancing engagement between a terminal flange and a facing slanting wing flange resiliently deformed by the embraced sash unit.
Abstract: A window assembly in which two window units are slidably mounted and in which one of the window units cannot be removed until the other has been removed. The removal of a first of the window units releases the sash locking member for lateral movement within the frame to permit overlapping lips of the other window unit and its associated frame to move out of overlapping engagement with one another.