CERTAIN IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR WINDOW SASHES, TABLES, AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HARDEMAN CLARKE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Cabinet
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the third year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Hardeman Clarke, Her especial licence, that I, the said Thomas
Hardeman Clarke, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Hardman Clarke, my exors, adññors, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVED FASTENINGS FOR WINDOW
SASHES, TABLES, AND SUCH LIKE PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas Hardman Clarke, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto bad, will more fully and at large appear..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Hardeman Clarke, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described
and ascertained as follows (that is to say) :-
My improved fastenings consist of wedge-formed bolts adapted to suitable
frames or guides, according to the circumstance for which they are required,
and which will be fully understood by any workman of ordinary capacity
accustomed to such articles by the annexed Drawings and the following
description and explanation thereof.
Figure 1 represents one of my improved window sash fastenings; Figure 2,
one of my improved table fastenings; and Figure 3, a wedge-formed bolt
apart from its frame or guide.
In order that it may be more distinctly seen and understood, in Figure 1
an improved sash fastening (a) represents the bolt frame or guide, and (b), a
portion of the wedge-formed bolt, the whole of which is distinctly shown by
Figure 3. (c) is the nob or handle by which the bolt is urged backwards or
forwards; (d) is the frame to which is attached the hasp or catch-piece (e),
and when the bolt is withdrawn the hasp or catch-piece may be moved in its
frame so as to release the sashes and allow them to pass each other. The
great advantage of this improved fastening is derived from the wedge-formed
bolt, which at the same time that it answers the usual purpose of preventing
sashes from being moved upwards or downwards does, by its peculiar property,
draw them close together, and avoid the inconvenience that otherwise might
arise from the admission of a current of air or from noise occasioned by the
shaking of the sashes against each other and in the sash frames. The bolt
frame (a) is necessarily required to be screwed or otherwise attached to one
sash, and the frame (d) to the other sash of a window.
In Figure 3, representing one of my improved table fastenings, (a) is the
bolt frame or guide; (b), the wedge-formed bolt; (c), the end of the nob or
handle rivetted to the bolt, but which nob or handle in this interior view.is
concealed by the frame; (d) is a catch-piece and plate for receiving the bolt.
The frame (a) with its bolt (b) is necessarily required to be fastened to one
table or portion of a table, and the plate with the catch-pieces (d) to the other
table or portion of a table; and it will be evident that the peculiar shape and
property of the wedge-formed bolt will cause the table to be drawn and firmly
held together when so required. The same advantages will attend the
application of these bolts to other like purposes.
Now, I claim as of my Invention fastenings for window sashes, tables, and

page_text: such like purposes, with such wedge-formed bolts, and I vary the frames and
the position of the bolts as circumstances or taste may require.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Hardeman Clark, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of June,
in the year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid Thomas Hardeman Clarke came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
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