A FIRE BALCONY, OF A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY NEW, AND VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING HITHERTO USED, AND IN WHICH SEVERAL PERSONS MAY IN CASES OF FIRE BE SAFELY CONVEYED TO THE GROUND PROM ANY PART OF THE HOUSE, WHERETO THE SAME SHALL BE AFFIXED, AND THAT IN A VERY EXPEDITIOUS MANNER, AND WITH LITTLE TROUBLE
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
GEDDES, of Petty France, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, in
the County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Eighth day of July, in the thirteenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Alexander Geddes, His especial lycence that I, the said
Alexander Geddes, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all the Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, one Invention of "A FIRE BALCONY, OF A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY
NEW, AND VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING HITHERTO USED, AND IN WHICH
SEVERAL PERSONS MAY IN CASES OF FIRE BE SAFELY CONVEYED TO THE GROUND
PROM ANY PART OF THE HOUSE, WHERETO THE SAME SHALL BE AFFIXED, AND
THAT IN A VERY EXPEDITIOUS MANNER, AND WITH LITTLE TROUBLE;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Alexander
Geddes, under my hand and seal, 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 His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
AnDear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Alexander Geddes, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Fire
Balcony, of a Construction entirely New and very Different from anything
hitherto used, and in which several Persons may in Cases of Fire be safely
conveyed to the Ground from any Part of the House whereto the same shall
be Affixed, and that in a very Expeditious-Manner, and with little Trouble, is
described in a Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof I, the said Alexander Geddes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal the Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.

page_text: NCES.
he Balcony made of Iron or Wood and supported by two Chains Awhich Chains work over two Iron Pullies and are fixed
to two sliding Weights in the hollow Pillars is an Iron Spindle and fixed to the pullies, and move round with them, which
.are the two Frames wherein the Spindle works. Eis a small chain
occasions the Balcony to descend in its uniform direction.
fastened to a Screw at.and by pulling of which the Balcony may be stop't at any Window coming down. There are four Rollers faced
one at each Corner of the back part of the Balcony as at which work in two Groves in the Pillars to prevent the Balcony from
swinging from the House and to keep it steady, when persons get in. There are also four, which work against the Face of the
Pillars as atto prernt the Friction which would be occasioned by the Balcony's rubbing against them. I is a Fireman waiting
to go up in the Balcony with the Engine pipe.