Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 188S
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
WILLIAM HILL, Plumber Grainer &c. No. 20 Clarendon Street Dover & JAMES
HILL Railway Guard No. 47 Clarendon Street Dover do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
For the holding of cords for venetian or other blinds, and for the loosing of same;
by means of a plate with spring let into it, with a tongue piece & compression
lever combined & covered with a casing, for the lower end of tongue to press against,
with a compression lever to the outside of casing to compress spring.
L1000
WILLIAM HILL and
JAMES HILL.

page_text: or other Blinds and for Releasing the same.
WILLIAM HILL Plumber Grainer &c. No. 20 Clarendon Street, Dover JAMES HILL,
Railway Guard No. 47 Clarendon Street Dover do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
An Automatic rack comprising a plate with boles in it to fasten, & lay spring in:
a bent spring to form double spring, a tongue to work on spring with axles, & toothed!
at bottom edge; & covered by a square set casing with slots in sides for tongue axles
to work in, with lever at either side to compress spring; for the raising & lowering of
venetian blinds without the necessity of tying or untying of cords, to raise the blind
pass the cords down through them by pulling downwards the blind will raise & by
letting go of cords the blind will retain its required height & by pressing the
lever the blind will instantly drop.
A a plate with holes in each side marked g for casing to fit into ; with hole in top
end marked j for eye of spring marked E to lay in; with hole in top & bottom
marked for fixing rack in required position.
B Casing to cover spring E & tongue D in; to be set up square with both ends
open, and to have fangs at back edge marked g to correspond with holes in plate
marked to fasten to; with slot at each side marked for axle of tongue marked i to
work in.
E Spring to be turned to form double spring, with eye marked E, to lay in slot in
plate A & marked j, under upper part of tongue marked F with one end of spring
to press against inside of casing marked B, the under end to press on plate marked A
to keep tongue marked D close to casing marked B.
C Compressing Lever attached to axle of tongue marked i at either side to compress
spring marked E.
D Tongue to have sunk slot in under side of top of tongue marked F, for eye of
spring marked E to clear; and bevelled & toothed at bottom edge marked-d-to
press against inside front of casing marked B; to have axle ends at each side of
tongue marked i to work in slots of casing B & marked i; with compression lever at
either side for left or right hand marked & to axle of tongue marked i for to press
tongue down on top of spring to compress it.
Fig. 1 front view of automatic working & fastening rack.
Fig. 2 side view of half section of automatic working & fastening rack.
Fig. 3 side view of half of automatic working & fastening rack.
Fig. 4 top end section view of automatic working & fastening rack.
Working of Automatic working & fastening blind rack.
To raise the blind, pull down on cord or cords already passed through the rack,
and as soon as sufficiently high enough let go of the cords and the rack will

page_text: immediately jamb them & so retain the blind in that position; if required to lower
press the compression lever at side downwards and the blind will immediately drop
to its full length or otherwise by holding the cord may be steadied down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is