Improvements in Fanlight and Ventilator Openers.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 21st Dec., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fanlight and Ventilator Openers.
1 JOHN WILLIAM AUGER, of 13, Adderley Street, Edge Lane, Liverpool in the
County of Lancashire, Builders Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this my
invention to be as follows:
Improvements in what are commonly known as Fanlight openers for sashes or
Ventilators hung on pivots or hinges, for holding firmly when open, and securely
when closed. This invention consists of a metal plate with pulley attached, to this is
jointed, one end of a folding stay, the other end is jointed, to a cranked plate with
eye hole, for cord, which regulates the opening and closing, and so holds and adjusts
to the desired position, and firmly secures when closed, according to my invention it
is simple in its construction, efficient in its working, and is cheaply made.
Dated this 16th day of April 1888.
•
JOHN WILLIAM AUGER,
13, Adderley Street, Edge Lane,
Liverpool, Lancashire.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fanlight and Ventilator Openers.
I JOHN WILLIAM AUGER of 13, Adderley Street Edge Lane Liverpool in the
County of Lancashire Builders Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Specification in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the said
John William Auger in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th day of April, 1888.
To all to whom these presents shall come I, John William Auger send greeting
Whereas her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by her Letters Patent, bearing
date the seventeenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty eight in
the Fifty first year of her Reign, did for herself, her Heirs, and successors, give and
grant unto me the said John William Auger, my Executors administrators, and
assigns, Her Special License, that I the said John William Auger my Executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I the said John William Auger, my
Executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others
from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the terms therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and Vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain, and Ireland, and the Isle of Man, an Invention for. the
Improvements in Fanlight, and Ventilators, Openers, and in the Apparatus employed
therein upon conditions among others that I the said John William Auger my
Executors administrators, and assigns, by an Instrument in Writing under my or
their or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within Nine Months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
Now Know ye that I the said John William Auger, do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the Figures, and letters,
marked thereon, that is to say the said Invention has for its object the opening and
closing of Fanlights, or Ventilators, by means of a Cord, or Chain, in combination
with a mechanical appliance arranged in such a manner that the Fanlight, or Ventilator,
can be adjusted in any position according to the length of arms fitted to the apparatus,
and consists in secureing to the top of the -Frame of Fanlight, or Ventilator, a plate
with projecting bracket and guide in continuation over a grooved pulley, on one side
of the plate is a projecting lug to which is mounted a folding arm or stay working on
Studs or pins, at the end of this folding arm is secured by a stud or pin a cranked
bracket with an Eye hole for Cord or Chain. This cranked bracket is fixed to the
top rail of Fanlight, or Ventilator, a cord is then secured to the Eye and is passed
over the pulley and by actuating the cord or chain in connection with the Eye and
pulley the Fanlight or Ventilator is opened or closed as desired.

page_text: But in order to enable my Improvement to be better understood I will proceed to
describe the same in reference to the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1. represents a
side view of the Apparatus. Fig. 2. is a Front View when closed. Fig. 3. is a Plan
when closed. Fig. 4. is a side View when opened out. To the top side of the Frame
I secure the plate A, projecting from this plate is a bracket B. to which is fastened a
spindle C. which forms the axle for Grooved pulley D. around which running is the
cord E, or chain for actuating the apparatus, the cord is kept in the groove of the
pulley by means of the guard F. which is in continuation of the bracket B. attached
to the side of plate A. is the lug C. to this is jointed with a stud or pin one end of the
arm H. at I. the other end of arm J. is joined at K. and also at L. to the cranked
bracket M. with studs or pins a thin washer is placed between the joints I. K. L. to
facilitate the friction the end of arm H. at L. is made longer and is bevelled and
arranged so that it strikes against the bracket plate A. when opened out and so
prevents the centres of the joints 1. K. L. coming in a straight line it also acts as a
support to the plate A. as shown by Fig. 4. by securing the cord E. to the eye N. and
passing under the guard F and in the Groove of the pulley D. and actuating the
cord E. in the direction for opening and closing as desired.
Having thus described my Improvement and the best means I am acquainted with
for carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood, that I do not confine
myself to the precise details shown on the accompanying Drawings, and described,
as the same may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the
Invention, but what I claim as my Invention, is
The Improved combination arrangement, operating in the manner for and by means
of the Apparatus substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and
represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In Witness whereof I the said John William Auger have hereunto set my Hand
and Seal this 14th day of November 1888.