A NEW OR IMPROVED WINDOW SCREEN OR BLIND
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Holt Sharp, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Lithographer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED WINDOW SCREEN
OR BLIND"
Sealed the 16th December 1879, and dated the 18th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Holt Sharp at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th June 1879.
SAMUEL HOLT SHARP, of Leeds, in the County of York, Lithographer.
NEW OR IMPROVED WINDOW SCREEN OR BLIND."
"A
This Invention relates to screens or blinds for windows, and my improvements
consist in forming them of cardboard, millboard, papier mache, tin, zinc, or other
suitable material, cut into strips which are connected by their edges so as to be
capable of being folded up and laying flat upon one another. In each strip is a
hole, through which passes a cord or rod, by means of which the blind may be
secured or suspended across the window, and screws or other adjusting apparatus
may be employed to regulate the position of the strips, which may either be arranged
so as to present a flat surface, or a succession of ridges or corrugations. The strips
may cross the window either vertically or horizontally, and from the material of
which they are constructed great scope is afforded for ornamentation by embossing,
printing, or perforating.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Samuel Holt Sharp in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th December 1879.
SAMUEL HOLT SHARP, of Leeds, in the County of York, Lithographer. "A
NEW OR IMPROVED WINDOW SCREEN OR BLIND."
This Invention relates to screens or blinds for windowe, and my improvements
consist in forming them of cardboard, millboard, papier macho, tin, zinc, or other
suitable material cut into strips, which are connected by their edges so as to bo
capable of being folded up and laying flat upon one another. In some cases a hole
is made in each strip, through which passes a cord or rod, by means of which the
blind may be secured or suspended across the windows, and screws or other adjusting
apparatus may be employed to regulate the position of the strips, which may either
be arranged so as to present a flat surface or a succession of ridges or corrugations.
The strips may cross the windows either vertically or horizontally, and from the
material of which they are constructed great scope is afforded for ornamentations by
embossing, printing, or perforating.
In order that this Invention may be better understood I have annexed a Sheet
of Drawings illustrative thereof, wherein Fig. 1 is elevation of a blind composed
of strips A, attached or held together by means of a piece of cotton or other suitable
material, so as to allow the blind to be folded up at the joining of each strip of
board.
Fig. 2 illustrates elevation of another description of blind, A being the strips
which are attached or held together by a piece of cotton, as in the previous case.
The blind is arranged to fit any width of window by means of rods B and screws C,
which will regulate the depth or height of the corrugations formed by the strips.
These blinds may be arranged so as to be placed vertical, as shewn, or they may
be horizontal, same as a Venetian blind, and they may also be used as splash boards
'or papers for wash-hand-stands in bedrooms or other places.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and shewn by Drawings
how the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to any particular design or shape of strip, as from the material of which
they are constructed great scope is afforded for ornamentation by embossing, printing,
or perforating; which therefore I claim as my Invention is, the construction of window
blinds composed of the materials and constructed in the manner substantially as
herein described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Holt Sharp, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
SAM H. SHARP. (L.S.)