IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS OR "MOVEMENTS' FOR SWING LOOKING-GLASSES
Year: 1874

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left. by the said John Parry at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd July 1874.
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I, JOHN PARRY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS
OR "MOVEMENTS' FOR SWING LOOKING-GLASSES," to be as follows:-
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- This Invention consists in the construction of a new kind of fitting
of movement to be applied to the frames of swing-looking glasses-
for the purpose of retaining them at any angle or in any position.

page_text: required, such fitting or movoment being so arranged that no turn-
ing or adjusting of the glass can loosen the same, as is the case with
the ordinary fittings or "movements."
On each side of the frame (at about the centre thereof) I fix by
screws or otherwise a metal plate having therein a central hole. This
holo is recessed or rebated on its inner side to receive the head of a
screw bolt, so that when the plate is placed over the said head, the
plate (and the frame of the glass to which it is attached) can revolve
around the bolt head.
The body or stem of the bolt is made square, and is passed through a 3
slot made in the bracket or pillar which supports the frame of the
glass, and in a second metal plate screwed or fixed to the inner side of
the bracket or pillar, so that when the looking-glass frame is in its
place, the surfaces of these two metal plates touch, and one revolves in
contact with the other as the glass is adjusted.
Outside the bracket or pillar a nut is screwed on to the bolt, and by
turning this nut the metal plates can be tightened or loosened at
pleasure.
The nuts may be covered by rosettes or made in any ornamental form,
and it will bo evident that as neither the nut nor the bolt revolves with
the looking-glass, no movement or adjustment of the latter can loosen
the nut on the screw.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Parry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PARRY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth 3
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

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and grant unto me, the said John Parry, Her special license that
I, the said John Parry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Parry, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to timo 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 Ohannel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS OR * MOVE-
XENTS' FOR SWING LOOKING-GLASSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Parry, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of tho said.
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, 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 John Parry, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
bo performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in the construction of a new kind of fitting.
or "movement" to be applied to the frames of swing looking-glasses
for the purpose of retaining them at any angle or in any position
required, such fitting or movement being so arranged that no turning
or adjusting of the glass can loosen the same, as is the case with the
ordinary fittings or movements.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now
proceed to describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be
or may be performed or carried into practical effect, and in order that the
sanio may bo clearly understood I have annexed hereunto a Shċct of
Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures:
and letters of reference corresponding with those in the following
explanation thereof;—.
Fig. 1 is a front view of the upper end of the bracket and part of the
frame of a looking-glass with my improved fitting or movement shown
as applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a side view of the upper part of the

page_text: for looking-glasses herein-before more particularly described and repre-
sented by the Drawings annexed, or any mere imitation or modification
thereof, constructed and operating in substantially the same manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Parry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four."
Witnessed by
JOHN HUGHES,
Clerk to Geo. Davies, C.E.,
Patent Office,
81, Ann's Sq,
Manchester.
JOHN PARRY. (L.S.)