AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR WINDOW SHUTTERS AND BLINDS
Year: 1860

page_text: 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR WINDOW SHUTTERS AND BLINDS."
- A communication from abroad by Augustus Reeve, of Allowaystown,
Salem County, State of New Jersey, in the United States of America.
Sealed the 8th March 1861, and dated the 12th October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th October 1860.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
5 in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING POR WINDOW SHUTTERS AND
BLINDS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to obtain a bolt by which window shutters
and blinds may be securely fastened in either a closed or a partially opened or
bowed state.
The Invention consists in fitting the bolt within a case somewhat wider or
deeper than the bolt so as to admit of the latter having two movements, to wit,

page_text: a longitudinal, and a rising and falling one, the socket which receives the end
of the bolt being constructed in a similar way, and provided with an opening
in its back plate, which opening forins the orifice of a supplemental socket, to
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Edward Newton, Her special license that I, the said William
Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR WINDOW SHUTTERS AND BLINDS," being a
communication from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Edward Newton, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
:-
The object of this Invention of an improved fastening for window shutters

page_text: and blinds is to obtain a bolt by which window shutters and blinds may be
securely fastened in either a closed or a partially opened or bowed state. .
The Invention consists in fitting the bolt within a case. somewhat wider or
deeper than the bolt, so as to admit of the latter having two movements,
namely, a longitudinal one and a rising and falling one. The socket which
receives the end of the bolt is constructed in a similar way, and is provided
with an opening in its back plate, which opening forms the orifice of a supple-
mental socket to receive the bolt when the shutters are secured in a bowed
state.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a front or face view of the
improved fastening applied to a pair of window shutters; Figure 2 is a
horizontal section of the same, taken in the line a, a, of Figure 1;
A represents a metal plate, with a case B of rectangular form attached to its
back surface. Within this case B there is fitted a slide bolt C, which may be
of rectangular form, but narrower than the case B, so as to admit of the
former being moved bodily up and down in the latter. The case B is fitted
into one of the shutters D, the plate A being flush with the side of the shutter,
as shown in Figure 2. The plate A has a longitudinal slot a made in it, and
the lower edge of this slot has two notches b, c, made in it. To the bolt C
there is attached a button E, the shank 6 of which projects through the slot a.
The outer edge of the case B is flush with the edge of the shutter D. To the
other shutter D, and at a point in line with the case B, there is secured a
plate F, to the back of which a case or socket G is attached. The socket G
is of course much shorter than the case B, but it is of the same width, so as
to admit of the rising and falling movement of the bolt, and the socket at its
inner end is provided with a recess d to receive a lip e on the outer end of the
bolt C, when the latter is shoved in the socket, and the shutters are in a
closed state, as seen in Figure 1. The plate F of the socket G has an
opening f made in it. This opening is just in front of the socket, and of
sufficient dimensions to allow the end of the bolt to pass through. The
opening forms the orifice of a recess g in the shutter, and this recess is a
supplemental socket, to receive the bolt C when the shutters are bowed, as
shown by red lines in Figure 2. When the shutters are thus secured in a
bowed or partially open state, the lip e of the bolt is down behind the lower
edge of the opening f, so as to prevent the forcing back or casual withdrawal
of the bolt. In order to slide back the bolt from either of its two positions
when the shutters are locked, the bolt is lifted bodily so that the shank
the button E and the lip e of the bolt may be free respectively from the
of

page_text: notch b or c on the lower edge of the opening f, according to the position of
the bolt. The shank of the button: E will be in the notch when the
shutters are closed, and in the notch c when the shutters are in a bowed
state.
Having now described the Invention of an improved fastening for window
shutters and blinds, and having explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I claim as
the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the improved
fastening herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.S.)