US PATENT SUBCLASS 49 / 5
.~ Terminates counterweight condition


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49 /   HD   MOVABLE OR REMOVABLE CLOSURES

1  DF  THERMAL RELEASER OR ACTUATOR {5}
5.~ Terminates counterweight condition {1}
6  DF  .~.~> Overbalanced by released weight supplementing counterweight


DEFINITION

Classification: 49/5

(under subclass 1) Device wherein the retaining means includes a counterweight which counteracts the weight of the closure, and wherein the thermally responsive device includes

means which disturbs the balance of the counterweight and closure, e.g., devices in which the weight of one closure balances the weight of another.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

119, for closures interconnected for opposed concurrent movement in which one closure counter-balances the weight of the other.