Swing window arrangements

• US 4,658,474 A
• Filed: 01/21/1986
• Issued: 04/21/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KVA-Spil Ltd.
• Original Assignee: KVA-Spil Ltd.
• Inventors: Anderssen, Bjorn
• Primary Examiner(s): Godici, Nicholas P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Skillman, Karen
• Application Number:
  US06/820,980
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 16/352, 16/388, 16/346, 16/349, 16/360, 16/371, 49/208, 49/26, 49/382, 49/391, 49/394
• US Class Current: 16/352
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/44 with pivoted arms and vertically-sliding guides
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/148 Windows

Abstract

Swing window arrangement equipped with a child safety device and having a pair of pivot mountings (12) which are each provided with a frame fastening plate (13) which supports, about a first pivot pin (15), a first, upper pivot arm (16) and, about a second, lower pivot pin (17), a second, lower pivot arm (18), at a certain distance from each other. The child safety device is only arranged on the one pivot mounting. A first component (23) of the child safety device, which forms a weight-loaded drop bolt, is arranged axially moveable on the frame fastening plate (13). A second component (24) of the child safety device, which is provided with a stop forming hook (24a), is fastened to the lower pivot arm (18) in order to be swung together with the latter and by this means is moved inwards into and outwards from a locking engagement with the first component (23). The first component (23) has the one end displaceably mounted on a first slide pin (26) in extension of pivot pin (15) of the first pivot arm (16) and the other end displaceably mounted on a second slide pin (28) which is fastened to the frame fastening plate (13) between the first pivot pin (15) and the second pivot pin (17). The second component (24) engages with the first component (23) in a region which lies substantially closer to pivot pin (15) of the first pivot arm (16) than pivot pin (17) of the second pivot arm (18).

Claims

1. Swing window arrangement comprising:

(a) a window frame;

(b) a window casement connected to opposite sides of said window frame via a pair of pivot mountings each of which comprises a plate fastened to said window frame, said plate supporting upper and lower pivot arms about respective upper and lower pivot pins; and

(c) a child safety device incorporated in at least one of said pivot mountings and comprising a drop bolt first component arranged for axial movement on said pivot mounting plate and a second component having a stop-forming hook portion associated with said lower pivot arm enabing said hook portion to be swung with said pivot arm into and out of locking engagement with said first component at a location substantially closer to said upper pivot pin than to said lower pivot pin, one end of said first component being displaceably mounted on a first slide pin forming an extension of said upper pivot pin while its other end is displaceably mounted on a second slide pin fastened to said plate between said first and second pivot pins.

2. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the first component is a strip member defining with the plate a space for receiving the second component and having a bolt portion bent inwardly into said space which is adapted to drop into locking engagement with the hook portion in a plane centrally between said strip member and said plate from a release position to which said bolt portion is lifted by said hook portion with inward swinging of the lower pivot arm.

3. The arrangement of claim 2 wherein the strip member has a generally elongate, S-shaped cross-section and is formed with upper and lower longitudinal slots receiving the first and second slide pins respectively to permit the axial movement of said strip member relative to the plate.

4. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the second component is rigidly connected to the lower pivot arm and projects laterally outwards from the latter in the direction of the window frame with the hook portion at its outer end.

5. The arrangement of claim 1, wherein the at least one pivot mounting includes a support arm having the window casement pivotably mounted at its lower end while its upper end has upper ends of the pivot arms pivotably mounted at spaced apart locations thereon, the lower ends of said pivot arms being supported by the plate.

6. A swing window arrangement comprising

a window frame;

a window casement;

at least one pivot mounting secured to and between said frame and said casement for movement of said casement between a closed position and an open position relative to said frame, said pivot mounting including a pivot pin, an upper arm pivotally mounted on said pivot pin and a lower arm mounted between said frame and said casement; and

a safety device including a pair of components, a first of said components being slidably mounted about said pivot pin for movement between a rest position and a raised position, a second of said components being secured to said lower arm for releaseably engaging said first component in said rest position thereof to maintain said casement in a partially open position spaced from said closed position and for movement past said first component in said raised position thereof to permit movement of said casement to said open position thereof.

7. A swing window arrangement as set forth in claim 6 which further comprises a pin below said pivot pin and wherein said first component includes a slot receiving said pin.

8. A pivot mounting for a window casement comprising

a plate;

a support arm for securement to a window casement;

a pivot pin secured to said plate;

a first arm pivotally mounted on said pivot pin and secured to said support arm;

a second arm pivotally connected to and between said plate and said support arm;

a drop bolt slidably mounted about said pivot pin for movement between a rest position and a raised position; and

a stop secured to said second arm for releasably engaging said drop bolt in said rest position thereof to prevent said second arm from pivoting away from said plate and for movement past said drop bolt in said raised position thereof to permit pivoting of said second arm away from said plate.

9. A pivot mounting as set forth in claim 8 which further comprises a second pin on said plate between said arms and wherein said drop bolt includes a slot receiving said second pin therein.

10. A pivot mounting as set forth in claim 8 wherein said drop bolt is slidably mounted between said pivot pin and said second pin.

11. A pivot mounting as set forth in claim 8 wherein said drop bolt includes a flat main portion and a stop-forming flap deflected from said main portion and said stop on said second arm has a hook portion for engaging said flap.