On this day in 1954 Allen Trask was granted the patent for Window Air Conditioner. U.S. Patent No. 2,682,159.

A principal object of this invention is a cabinet constructed as a cantilever structure having a central pier arranged to support the air conditioner within the opening of a window at the bottom closing point of a vertically sliding sash.

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