Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ISRAEL
LEWIB, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, Upholsterer, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July, in the seven-
teenth year of His reign, did give and grant unto the said Israel Lewis,
his executors, admors, and assigns, His 'especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that he, the said Israel Lewis, his executors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his
and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
Israel Lewis, his executors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein mentioned, should and might make, use, exercise, and vend. his

page_text: Invention of "MAKING FESTOON. WINDOW CURTAINS WITH SPRINGS, BY WHICH
MEANS THEY MAY BE FIXED UP AND TAKEN DOWN WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF AN
UPHOLSTERER, NOT ONLY WITH GREATER EXPEDITION, BUT WITH MUCH LESS DAMAGE
TO THE WAINSCOTT OR WALL, AND SO CONTRIVED THAT THE CURTAINS MAY WITH
GREAT EASE BE PUT UP OR TAKEN DOWN BY ANY SERVANT IN THE FAMILY IN
LESS THAN A MINUTE'S TIME, IN SUCH MANNER AS HE SHOULD THINK FIT;" to hold,
and enjoy the said powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted
unto the said Israel Lewis, his executors, adñiors, and assigns, for the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; provided never-
theless, that if the said Israel Lewis should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the same Letters Patent, and all the liberties thereby granted,
should be void.
NOW I, the said Israel Lewis, do hereby describe, ascertain, and
declare, that my method of making festoon window curtains with
springs, and fixing up and taking down the same, is in the following
manner:
I make use of a strong pliable strap, which may be made of several
materials, such as leather, buckram, girth, webb, or it may be made part
of wood or iron, if made to fold up; and I fix brass pulleys in frames,
rivitted to the strap in the places necessary for drawing up the curtain.
I make several tin tubes or sockets at proper distances in the strap, to
receive as many pins, which are to be. placed in the. piece of wood here-
after mentioned, in order to support the curtain; and the tubes or sockets
at each end of the said strap are made for receiving pins with sprinks
in them. This strap is sewed to the edge of a common festoon window
curtain. I also make use of a thin, piece of wood, of equal width with
the window, for which, the curtain is intended, into which piece of wood I
put several iron pins, at the same distances with the tubes or sockets

page_text: made in the strap above mentioned, and the
pins at each end of this piece of wood are
made with springs in them, and so contrived
that these pins may fit with the tubes.or sockets
made in the strap above mentioned. This
piece of wood is to be fixed to the wainscot
or wall over the window, and the curtain,
being fixed to the strap in the manner before
described, and the lines run through the
pulleys and the rings in the curtain, nothing
more is required in the using thereof than
fixing the strap with the curtain on the pins
placed in the piece of wood fixed to the
wainscot, and the springs at each end will
keep it in its proper place. The finger laid
upon the spring of the pins at each end
discharges the strap and the curtain, and the
same drops down with the lines; and the
strap, being made of the pliable stuff, as
before mentioned, folds up with the curtain.
And for the better and more perfectly ex-
plaining my method of making these festoon
window curtains with the springs, and the
fixing up and the taking down the same,
I have described the Figure of the strap and
the piece of wood to be fixed to the wains-
cott in the margin of these Presents, and I
have marked the strap with the letter A, and
the piece of wood with the letter B.
aid Israel Lewis hath hereunto set his hand
day of September, in the seventeenth year
esent Majesty King George the Third, and
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Eleventh day of September,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Israel Lewis came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of September, in the year above said.