A NEW METHOD OF HANGING WINDOW SASHES AND WINDOW SHUTTERS, WITHOUT THE APPEARANCE OF: LINES AND PULLIES
Year: 1798

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
MARLOW, of King Street, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Joiner,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of. Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourteenth day of July, in the thirty-eighth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto the said Richard Marlow, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority
that he, the said Richard Marlow, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Richard Marlow,
his executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
his Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF HANGING WINDOW SASHES AND WINDOW
SHUTTERS, WITHOUT THE APPEARANCE OF: LINES AND PULLIES," within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if the said Richard Marlow should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed; by an instrument in writing under
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page_text: his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one month next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should determine
and be void, as by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereto had, will
more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said in part recited Letters Patent contained, he, the said
Richard Marlow, hath set forth in the margin of these Presents a Drawing
of his said Invention, and of the several component parts thereof, and he
doth hereby ascertain and describe the same in manner following, that is
to say:-
Plate 1 shews an inside view of one of the boxings of the sash frame, the
lining being taken off for the purpose of shewing the principles of suspending
the weight. A shews a cross bar fixed in the said boxing, to which the line
for hanging the sash is fastened; the said line passes through the pulley B
fixed to the top of the weight C, which may be of lead or any other compo-
sition sufficiently heavy with the one in the other boxing to balance the
weight of the sash; the said, line is then carried through the pulley or roller D,
let into the pulley piece and fixed to the bottom of the sash at letter E. The
sash is displaced in order more particularly to shew the manner of fixing the
line to the sash, and also the said pully or roller D, which being fixed imme-
diately below the center of the sash frame is made sufficiently small to be
concealed by the bottom rail of the sash when the same is thrown up to it's
height; the same means and principles being adopted in the other boxing
constitute the method of hanging the lower sash agreeable to the said
Invention.
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Plate 2 shews an outside view of the other boxing of the sash frame, with
the method of banging the upper sash, the line being in like manner fixed to
the said cross barr, and passing through the pulley fixed to the weight as
letter F, and then being carried through the pulley or roller G, and fixed to
the bottom of the said upper sash, the pulley or roller is let into the pulley
piece immediately above the centre of the sash frame, and is made so small as
to be concealed by the upper rail of the said upper sash when pulled down to
its extent; but sometimes it may be necessary to put a stop at the bottom of
the upper sash rail to prevent its going too far down; the same principles-are
likewise adopted in the opposite boxing of the sash frame for the hanging of
the upper sash.
Plate 3 shews the whole sash complete, giving a perspective view of the
internal part of one of the boxings of the sash frame, the other in every

page_text: respect resembling it, and shewing the manner in which the weights are
suspended when the window is shut, the aforesaid cross bar more particularly
appearing, to which the aforesaid lines are fastened; a thin parting slip is intro-
duced between the weights the better to keep them steady in the motion of the
sashes; another cross bar, above the one before described, is recommended for
the purpose of strengthening the frames. The weights and pullies being
concealed in manner herein-before described, the groves in which the sashes
move are thus preserved completely fair to the sight, the sashes move with
considerably more ease and steadiness, and the mode of hanging them is
therefore rendered much more durable than the common method.
In witness whereof, he, the said Richard Marlow, hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of August, in the thirty-eighth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-eight.