IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF OPENING, CLOSING, AND FASTENING WINDOWS, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edward Hugall, of Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Artist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MODE OF OPENING, CLOSING, AND FASTENING WINDOWS, AND IN APPARATUS
THEREFOR.
"
County of Middlesex, Artist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MODE OF OPENING, CLOSING, AND FASTENING WINDOWS, AND IN APPARATUS
THEREFOR.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edward
Hugall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th January 1873.
I, CHARLES EDWARD HUGALL, of Kensington, in the County of
Middlesex, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF OPENING, CLOSING, AND FASTENING WINDOWS,
AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in the application to the balance weights
of sashes of windows at present in use or to be made for the purpose of
cords attached to a windlass placed at or near the bottom of the frame
or window in the room and convenient of access.
Also in the application of separate fasteners to the rails of sashes at
bottom and at top, in lieu of the joint fastener hitherto usod at tho

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Charles Edward Hugall in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 16th July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDWARD HUGALL, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Artist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Edward Hugall, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles Edward Hugall, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles

page_text: Edward Hugall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF OPENING, CLOSING, AND FASTENING
WINDOWS, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Charles Edward Hugall, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edward Hugall, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The improvements consist in the application to the balance weights of
sashes of windows at present in use or to be made for the purpose of
cords attached to a windlass placed at or near the bottom of the frame
or window in the room convenient of access, for the purposes of more
conveniently opening, shutting, and fastening the sashes of such
windows.
The improvements may be performed as indicated by the accompany-
ing Drawing, in which Figure C shows sectional clevation, and Figure E
plan of window frame and sashes treated according to my Invention, 1,
being weight; 2, sash line wheel; 3, sash cord; 4 and 4ª, wheels; 5,
cord; 6, hook with cord attached to lower sash; F, windlass.
Figure F shows general view of windlass complete, which I prefer to
make double, A. being plate with teeth; B, flange; C, handle; D, axle;
the portion M is fixed on an axle running through the hollow axle of N,
and at D it projects and is fitted to receive a key C as shown; this key
is so constructed that it will work both barrels simultaneously or
separately.

page_text: C. E. HUGALL. (L.S.)