Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1887
Complete Left, 9th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 13th Apr., 1888
I JAMES FENTON of Liverpool Road Patricroft in the County of Lancaster Insurance
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention is chiefly designed for sunshades for shop windows though it may be
constructed or arranged so as to be applied to other purposes where a textile or flexible
material is used as a shade or covering.
It consists essentially in forming the sunshade with two or more supporting brackets
each of which are supported by a pivotted or sliding bracket or support and are
provided with a longitudinal slide or slot for the outside stretcher of the blind
or shade.
In carrying out the invention the blind or shade may be of any suitable textile
fabric or may be composed of laths or strips of material jointed together so as to be
flexible and capable of being passed over or wound up upon a roller. The bracket
for carrying the blind is pivoted at or near its top end so that it can assume either a
vertical or inclined position. A second arm or bracket is pivoted to or connected with
the first. A pin or pivot in one end of it slides in a slot in the first bracket and a
slot or slide in the other end receives a pin or pivot in a fixed and stationary
bracket. The longitudinal movement of the second arm or bracket in an upward
direction raises the first one from a vertical to an inclined position. A catch prevents
it sliding back. In the bracket which carries the blind or shade a second slide or slot
is provided to receive the end of the outside stretcher of the blind and form a support
therefor. When the brackets are raised in position the shade or blind is released
from its roller and slides or is drawn out along the supporting bracket. If drawn out
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page_text: when the bracket is in a vertical position it will form a blind or shutter. A small
winch may be used for rolling up the blind or shade and if found necessary there may
also be attached to the lower arm a rack and pinion for raising and lowering it. The
apparatus may also be applied for making a temporary shed or covering if the brackets.
are attached to a wall or by attaching them to uprights two sets of them may be
employed to form the roof of a tent with side walls projecting down therefrom the
advantage being that when not in use the canvas can be easily rolled up and removed
from exposure to the weather.
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page_text: Improvements in or relating to Sunshades or Blinds for Shop
Windows, Applicable also to other Analogous Purposes.
I, JAMES FENTON, of Liverpool Road, Patricroft, in the County of Lancaster,
Insurance Agent, 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 :-
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This invention is chiefly designed for sunshades for shop windows though it may be
constructed or arranged so as to be applied to other purposes where a textile or flexible
material is used as a shade or covering.
It consists essentially in forming the sunshade with two or more movable supporting
arms or brackets each of which is supported by a pivoted arm sliding against it, and
is provided with a longitudinal slide or slot for the outside stretcher of the blind
or shade.
Referring to the annexed drawing,
Fig. 1. is a front elevation.
Fig. 2. side elevation of the invention..
Fig. 3 side elevation of the attachment slightly differing from that shown
in Fig. 2.
A is the blind or shade of any suitable textile fabric or composed of laths or strips
of material jointed together so as to be flexible and capable of being passed over or
wound up upon a roller and is fitted at its outer or lower edge with a stretcher A¹ of
wood or other suitable material. The blind A as shown is attached to the roller B
upon which it may be wound up. This roller may be of any suitable material. I
prefer to make it of tin plate hollow in the centre. It is supported and revolves in
brackets C placed at either end.
The blind when not in use remains rolled up upon the roller. When drawn down
to shade the window or structure to which it is attached it is supported in its inclined
position by an arm or bracket D extending along each edge of it.
The ar or bracket D is pivoted at or near its top end, so that it can assume either
a vertical or inclined position, it is shown pivoted at c to the bracket C which also
supports the blind roller B. It is formed with two longitudinal slots or slides E and F
one extending the whole length and the other half its length.
A supporting arm G. is pivoted to the fixed bracket H and connected to the arm, D
to support it in position when raised. A pin or pivot I. carried in its top end traverses
the slot or slide F of the arm D.
. When not raised or in position for use the arm or bracket D is placed in a vertical
or nearly vertical position depending from the pivot c and the arm or rod G is drawn
back at its upper end into a similar position. When thus placed they occupy but
little space at the side of a shop window or front. The blind when not required in
use is rolled up upon the roller-B.
When it is desired to bring the blind into use the arms D are raised and the arms
or rods G fall or are drawn forward at the top the pins I sliding in the slots or slides F
until they reach the ends of the slots or a position in them where they will remain

page_text: stationary and sustain the weight of the arms D. The stretcher A' of the blind then
moves or is drawn forward unwinding the blind A from the roller B. The end a of
the stretcher A¹ traverses the slides E of the arms D which sustain the weight of the
blind and hold it in the required position.
The arrangement of the apparatus as shown in the drawing is in its simpler form
without levers or weights to raise or balance the arms D. They are intended to be
raised by hand by means of a staff or pole. Where it is desired to do so a chain or
rope may be attached to the bracket d' and carried over a pulley to the inside of the
building and attached to a lever or small winch by means of which the arms D would
then be raised or lowered. The blind is wound up on the roller by the cord b which
passes over a sheave or pulley on the end of the roller B. and when it is released
usually falls or is carried out by the weight of the stretcher A¹. If drawn out when
the brackets are vertical it will form a blind or shutter for the window. Angular
pieces to form side blinds may be attached to or hung from the arms D. These could
be wound upon a roller supported by brackets affixed to the side of the window.
As shown in the drawing the arm D is made of hollow metal pipes or rods & con-
nected by the castings d¹¹¹ but they may be made in any suitable way or of any
suitable material.
The slots forming the slides E and F need not run the entire length shown as the
ends a, of the stretcher A¹ may be made to rest on top of a bar such as d as it slides
up and down and fit into a catch at the end, or the ends a may be made with T heads
and fit into the interior of a hollow bar or pipe with a slot cut along one edge.
Similarly the slide F for the arm G may be otherwise constructed. If it is desired to
reduce the length of the arms D when the shade is not in use they may be made in
two or more parts the one to telescope into the other but I at present prefer the
arrangement shown in the drawing and hereinbefore described.
The apparatus may also be applied for making a temporary shed or covering by
attaching the brackets to a wall or by attaching them to uprights, two sets may be
employed to form the roof of a tent with side walls projecting down therefrom the
advantage being that when not in use the canvas can be easily rolled up and removed
from exposure to the weather.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I
do not claim broadly the use of pivoted or hinged arms or brackets for supporting
sunshades or blinds as many such have hitherto been in use constructed to rise
and fall on the same principle as the ribs of an unbrella but what I claim is :-
(1.) The combination with a sunshade or blind of two or more pivoted supporting
arms or brackets each having two longitudinal slides one of which guides the stretcher
of the blind and the other the upper end of a second supporting arm substantially
as described.
(2.) In a sunshade or blind the combination with the blind and roller; of supporting
arm D pivoted at c, having the two slides E and F and the arm or rod G pivoted at
its lower end to a fixed centre and at its other traversing the slide F substantially as
and for the purposes described.
(3.) A sunshade or blind for shop windows and the like having supporting arms or
brackets constructed and arranged substantially as herein described and shown.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.;
6, Bank Street, Manchester,
Patent Agents.
Dated TU
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BERT CE 1033
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.;
6, Bank Street, Manchester,
Patent Agents.