A steering locking device for an automotive steering system, whereby the steering shaft is locked when the key cylinder is held in its "lock" position and when the key is removed from the key cylinder and whereby a warning signal such as sound or light is produced when the vehicle door is opened with the steering shaft left unlocked and/or the key left inserted into the key cylinder. The warning signal is produced through operation of an electric switch mechanism which is compactly accommodated ...

A key operated mechanism with one locked position and at least one unlocked position, by which it is not possible to return from an unlocked position to a locked position using the key until a mechanical member is actuated, all operations capable of being performed with one hand.

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 por...

A water-drainable gasket for use between a panel and a frame includes a continuous channel-shaped body having a pair of spaced sidewalls and a bottom wall. A plurality of pairs of transversely spaced water draining holes extend through the bottom, each pair of the holes being transversely aligned with each other. The pairs of the holes are spaced at an interval along the length of the continuous gasket. The holes in each pair are located adjacent to or extend partly through the sidewalls. Furthe...

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 ho...

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 w...

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 tappe...

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 length...

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...

An electric current feeding to an electric heating unit designed for dissipating a fog formed on a glass window of a vehicle by its thermal effect. The apparatus has one fuse connected with an ignition switch and two fuses connected with input terminals of an electromagnetic relay having two contacts for connection with a heating unit in parallel. The electromagnetic relay is actuated by the ignition switch through an electric timer activated by a manual defogger switch. An electric current feed...