Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — THE SENSIBLE SASH-BALANCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE SENSIBLE SASH-BALANCE.

A Device that Does Away with that Noisy Nuisance. Who is not familiar with that annoying neighborhood sound of a squeaking pulley as a window sash Is thrown up? It seems to be a very simple matter to inject a few of oil upon the rusted bearings and thus do away with the trouble, but who ever takes the time to do it? Meanwhile the squeaking goes on all around us. Your window pulleys

squeak, those of your neighbor squeak, everybody’s squeak; and nobody applies the needed oil. And then those bothersome cords; they are always wearing out, or fraying, making it necessary to tear out the window frame to put in new ones. The weights, too, get jammed, and it generally takes half an hour or so to get them loose and in running order again. Now here is a means of getting rid of the whole nerve-rasping trouble. This aptly called “sensible” sash balance needs no weights, nor does its action depend upon pulleys. The sash is simply attached by a loop to a wound-up ribbon

of aluminum bronze, and a brake permits the balance to be adjusted to suit a sash of any weight. This balance works smoothly and noiselessly, and it is to be hoped that It. or some equally good deyice, may soon replace the cord-hung weights from which we have so long suffered. The accompanying Illustrations show both a front and a rear view of the balance.

NEEDS NO WEIGHTS.

RIBBON OF ALUMINUM.