IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORDS AND STRAPS SUCH AS ARE USED FOR RAISING AND LOWERING WINDOW BLINDS, VENTILATORS, CARRIAGE WINDOWS, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Edward Pepys, of 22, Poultry, in the City
of London, Cutler, and James Warburton, of Hythe, in the County of
Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING
CORDS AND STRAPS SUCH AS ARE USED FOR RAISING AND LOWERING WINDOW
BLINDS, VENTILATORS, CARRIAGE WINDOWS, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 6th December 1867, and dated the 8th June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Edward Pepys, and
James Warburton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th June 1867.
We, ROBERT EDWARD PEPYS, of 22, Poultry, in the City of London, Cutler,
and JAMES WARBURTON, of Hythe, in the County of Kent, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING
CORDS AND STRAPS SUCH AS ARE USED FOR RAISING, AND LOWERING WINDOW BLINDS,
VENTILATORS, CARRIAGE WINDOWS, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus, for securing
cords and straps, such as are used for raising and lowering window. blinds,
ventilators, carriage windows, and for other similar purposes.
The apparatus consists of a plate or base which is fixed in, an upright
position at the side of the window or otherwise, as may be required.. On the
plate or base are guides, through which the cord or strap is passed to keep it

page_text: in its place in the apparatus; there is also on the plate or base a bracket to
which a moveable plate is hinged, and it bas fixed to it a weighted handle,
and this weight in hanging down and tending to place itself vertically under
the hinge or joint presses the edge of the moveable plate with which it is
connected up towards the fixed plate or base, and the cord or strap becomes
pressed between the two with the moveable plate nearly but not quite
horizontal; the parts being in this position any strain on the cord or strap
tending to draw it upwards, say the weight of the blind, ventilator, or window,
as the case may be, only causes the moveable plate to become more nearly
horizontal, and to jam the cord or strap the tighter, so that it is securely held
however great the strain upon it; the cord or strap may however be allowed
to pass freely in this direction by lifting the weighted handle. Any pull on
the cord in the opposite direction causes the cord or strap to pass through the
guides, as it throws the moveable plate into a more inclined position and
releives the pressure. In place of a weight a spring may be substituted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Edward Pepys and James Warburton in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 7th December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
EDWARD PEPYS, of 22, Poultry, in the City of London, Cutler, and JAMES
WARBURTON, of Hythe, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Robert Edward Pepys and James Warburton, Her special licence
that we, the said Robert Edward Pepys and James Warburton, our execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert
Edward Pepys and James Warburton, our 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 Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORDS AND STRAPS SUCH AS ARE
USED FOR RAISING AND LOWERING WINDOW BLINDS, VENTILATORS, CARRIAGE
WINDOWS, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that we, the said Robert Edward Pepys and James Warburton, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the 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 James Warburton, on behalf of myself
and the said Robert Edward Pepys, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for securing
cords and straps such as are used for raising and lowering window blinds,
ventilators, carriage windows, and for other similar purposes.
The apparatus consists of a plate or base which is fixed in an upright
position at the side of the window or otherwise as may be required. On the
plate or base are guides through which the cord or strap is passed to keep.it
in its place in the apparatus; there is also on the plate or base a bracket to
which a moveable plate is hinged, and it has fixed to it a weighted handle,
and this weight in hanging down and tending to place itself vertically under
the hinge or joint presses the edge of the moveable plate with which it is
connected up towards the fixed plate or base, and the cord or strap becomes
pressed between the two with the moveable plate nearly but not quite
horizontal.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed is shown an apparatus constructed in the
manner above described.
Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus, and Figure 2 a front view.
a is the base plate, which may be fixed by screws a¹ to any place where it
may be desired to apply the apparatus; b, b, are two side plates projecting out
at right angles from the plate a; these side plates carry the axle of the moveable
plate c; this plate has fixed to it the weighted handle c' which tends always
to bring the plate o into a horizontal position. d is a projection near the lower
end of the base a, through this projection is a hole d¹ through which the corde
is passed before it is passed between the base and the end of the plate c; at
the centre of the end of this plate is a rounded notch which embraces the cord
so that the cord may not be cut by the plate. It will be seen that any strain
on the cord or strap tending to draw it upwards, say, the weight of a blind,
entilator, or window, as the case may be, will only cause the moveable plate

page_text: to become more nearly horizontal and so jam the cord or strap the tighter, so
that it is securely held however great the strain upon it; the cord or strap
may however be allowed to pass freely in this direction by lifting the weighted
handle; any pull on the cord in the opposite direction will cause the cord or
strap to pass through the guides, as it will throw the moveable plate into a
more inclined position and relieve the pressure. In place of a weight a spring
may be substituted; the moveable plate should then be formed with a thumb
piece or handle by which the moveable plate may be turned on its axis when
desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Warburton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty coron