Improvements in or connected with Window-blinds.
Year: 1897

page_text: TRUVIDIONAL OF ECIFICATION,
Improvements in or connected with Window-blinds.
I, JOHN SAMUEL STAINES, of 43, York Terrace, Everton, in the City of Liverpool,
County of Lancaster, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to window-blinds, and has for its object, chiefly,
amongst other things, to provide improvements in connection with them, by which,
whilst the rooms, in connection with which they are used, cannot be seen into, yet
the light has very largely free access; and which, also, at the same time, can be used
to exclude both light and vision at once, in the manner of an ordinary blind.
According to this invention, a blind of any known suitable form, such as the
ordinary, or any known suitable roller blind, adapted to be bodily raised or
lowered up and down, and held in any position; either up above, or at any inter-
mediate point between the upper part of the window and the lower; and it is
guided on suitable guides, say at each side. The means of raising and lowering
the whole blind (which will include a roller, frame, and supports, and other parts)
will, under one arrangement, consist of cords or the like, carried up, say at one side,
and over pullies or guides, their ends being attached to the blind supports or frame.
Thus, by pulling on the cords, or the like, the whole blind will be raised; and by
letting the cords go, it will fall down the guides.
As to the action of the blind itself, more or less of it can be rolled or pulled down
off the roller, or the like, as in the case of the ordinary blinds; the mode of
actuation being any of the known kinds.
In the use of the blind, it will be seen, by lowering the frame, to say half the
distance between the top and bottom of the window, or to any intermediate point,
and pulling the blind down off its roller so as to reach the bottom of the window,
the lower part of the window will be shaded, and vision into the room from outside
will be excluded; while the entrance of full light through the upper part of the
window is permitted. Or again, if the frame is pulled to the uppermost position,
namely to the top of the window, and the blind proper is unrolled off the roller, it,
(the blind) will act and serve as an ordinary blind.
It is to be stated that while certain forms of parts have been particularly
mentioned above, the invention is not restricted to them, but may be carried out, in
its application, under different conditions, by different forms and arrangements of
parts; and equivalents of the constructions or parts specified, may be used, without
departing from the general features or characteristics of the invention.
Dated this 14th day of October 1897.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Window-blinds.
I, JOHN SAMUEL STAINES, of 43, York Terrace, Everton, in the City of Liverpool,
County of Lancaster, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to window-blinds, and has for its object, chiefly,
amongst other things, to provide improvements in connection with them, by which,
whilst the rooms, in connection with which they are used, cannot be seen into, yet
the light has very largely free access; and which, also, at the same time, can be
used to exclude both light and vision at once, in the manner of an ordinary blind.
According to this invention, a blind of any known suitable form, such as the
ordinary, or any known suitable roller blind, is adapted to be bodily raised or
lowered up and down, and held in any position; either up above, or in any inter-
mediate point between the upper part of the window and the lower, and it is
guided on suitable guides, say at each side. The means of raising and lowering
the whole blind (which will include a roller, frame, and supports, and other parts)
will, under one arrangement, consist of cords or the like, carried up, say at one side,
and over pullies or guides, their ends being attached to the blind supports or frame.
Thus, by pulling on the cords, or the like, the whole blind will be raised; and by
letting the cords go, it will fall down the guides.
As to the action of the blind itself, more or less of it can be rolled or pulled down
off the roller, or the like, as in the case of the ordinary blinds; the mode of
actuation being any of the known kinds.
In the use of the blind, it will be seen, by lowering the frame, to say half the
distance between the top and bottom of the window, or to any intermediate point,
and pulling the blind down off its roller so as to reach the bottom of the window,
the lower part of the window will be shaded, and vision into the room from outside
will be excluded; while the entrance of full light through the upper part of the
window is permitted. Or again, if the frame is pulled to the uppermost position,
namely to the top of the window, and the blind proper is unrolled off the roller, it,
(the blind) will act and serve as an ordinary blind.
It is to be stated that while certain form of parts have been particularly
mentioned above, the invention is not restricted to them, but may be carried out, in
its application, under different conditions, by different forms and arrangements of
parts and equivalents of the constructions or parts specified, may be used, without
departing from the general features or characteristics of the invention.
The invention will be described with the aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the window, provided with my improvements;
and Figure 2 is a side elevation. Figure 3 is a front elevation; and Figure 4 a
plan, shewing a modification of construction of parts, shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to Figures 1 and 2, a is the
window frame, and 6.the sashes. To the outer and upper corners of the frame a,
there are affixed pullies c, of any known suitable form, and below them, there are
wires, or wire cords d, which extend from a point near the pullies c; to a point,
preferably, below the meeting bars of the sashes of the window. These wires or
wire cords d are supported at their upper ends by eye-studs or brackets d', secured
onto the frame a; and, at their lower ends, by eye-studs, or brackets d³, the

page_text: lower end of the wires being threaded, and provided with a nut d³, by which the
required adjustment and tension of the wires d can be obtained.
These wires or cords d, serve as guides to a blind carrier or frame; and this frame
comprises a cheek e at either side, and bars e¹, extending across the window frame,
laterally, and connecting these two cheeks together. In the construction shewn,
the cheeks e are adjustable laterally in the bars e¹, by providing the bars with
threaded ends, and nuts, as shewn. The cheeks e are provided at their backs with
eyes e, which encircle the wires or cords d; and thus, by means of these eyes and
wires or cords, the blind carrier frame is guided, as regards all lateral movement,
and the carrier frame can slide up and down.
To the upper parts of the cheeks e, cords f are fastened and these cords pass over
the pullies c, a pair of such pullies being provided at the one side at which the two
cords are held down, to take and guide the two cords. These two cords will be
fastened together at a point beyond the pullies c, so that they are as one.
The blind roller is designated h, and is supported in the cheeks e in which it
revolves when it is pulled down, or rolled up. This blind and its roller may be of
any known suitable kind, and act in the ordinary way.
In action, under ordinary conditions, say for ordinary night use, the blind and its
carrier frame will stand at the upper part of the window frame; but in day time,
when it is required to shade the room, so as to prevent it being seen into, and yet
to let as much light as possible into it, the whole frame, consisting of the cheeks e
and cross bars e¹, together with the blind carried by it, is lowered, by letting go the
cords f; and thereupon the frame slides freely, by its own weight, down the wires or
cords d. When it is lowered to the required point, say to the level of the meeting
bars of the sashes, i.e. half way down, it is fixed there, by merely making fast the
operating cords f. Then afterwards, when the whole window is required to be
shaded or lowered, the blind frame is hauled up to its upper position by the cords f,
and there made fast.
As regards the blind carrier frame, this may be made in different ways, by
various forms of bars or the like, and sliding parts; and the lateral adjustment for
width may be variously effected.
The modified construction shewn in Figures 3 and 4, consists, mainly, of the use of
a box or channel guiding part d in lieu of a wire or cord; and of a flange e³, instead
of an eyelet, as in Figures 1 and 2, which slides up and down in the channel guide f.
This channel guide may be screwed into the window frame a; and the blind carrier
frame pulled up and lowered by cords; as in the case set forth with reference
to Figures 1 and 2. Otherwise than in this respect, the apparatus and its action,
are the same as that above described.
The invention may also be applied to window curtains; that is, instead of the
carrier frame having a roller blind, it will support a curtain rod, on which the
curtains will be hung; and by lowering or raising the carrier frame by the raising
and lowering cords, the curtains will be lowered and raised, as and when desired,
for any desired purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A window blind or curtain rod or support, having a movable carrier frame,
and stationary guides at each side, or in which said carrier frame is adapted to slide
up and down, the frame having connected with it a cord or cords for lowering and
raising same, and stationary guide pullies above, over which the cords pass;
substantially as set forth.
2. A window blind or curtain carrier frame, constructed and adapted to slide up
and down on or in guides at each side; substantially as and for the purposes set
forth.
3. The combination for employment in connection with a window, of a roller h;
carrier frame, comprising supporting side parts e, and cross connecting bars el;
guides d; hauling cords f; and pullies c; substantially as set forth.

page_text: 4. The window blind roller with carrier frame parts, sliding cords, and pullies,
as shewn in and set forth with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 24th day of March 1898.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.